Cisco Cisco Process Orchestrator 3.1 User Guide

The SM37 – Start or Restart a Background Job method lists all SAP jobs that have started or restarted 
as part of a maintenance or administrative process such as a system refresh The RFC method returns a 
table with the following columns:

Last Change Date

Date the job was last modified

Last Change Time

Time the job was last modified

Last Change User

User that last modified the job

Start Date

Date the job started execution

Start Time

Time the job started execution

Duration (sec.)

Amount of time the job executed or has been executing if still 
Active

Release Date

Date the job was released for execution

Release Time

Time the job was released for execution

Release User

User that released the job for execution

Scheduled Start Date

Date the job is scheduled to start

Scheduled Start Time

Time the job is scheduled to start

Work Process Number

Number of SAP work processes that executed the job on the 
application server

Work Process ID

Operating system PID of the SAP work process that executed 
the job

Target Server

The SAP application server where the job executed

Status

Current state of the job:

R – Running or Active

Y – Ready

P – Scheduled

S – Released

A – Aborted or Canceled

F – Finished or Completed

Z – Put Active

X – Unknown State

Event ID

SAP event that triggered the job to execute

Step Count

Number of steps in the job

Job name

Name of the SAP job

Job ID

Job ID assigned by SAP to this instance of job execution

Target server

Target server for the job