Cisco Cisco Workload Automation 6.3 User Guide
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Working with SAP Jobs
Overview
When working with SAP jobs in CWA, users need to contend with several unique issues that do not apply in normal CWA
operations:
operations:
Tracking the various job steps within parent-child job relationships.
Controlling unauthorized jobs submitted ad-hoc from within SAP that may divert system resources from the planned
production schedule.
production schedule.
Assigning a job class priority for SAP jobs defined in CWA.
This chapter covers these topics:
Parent-Child Jobs in SAP
Some SAP jobs produce child jobs that need to be tracked as a family of jobs. The parent job is considered active until
it and all of its children jobs and other descendents complete, even if the parent job itself has completed. Only the parent
job created in CWA is displayed in the CWA console. You can drill down to the descendents of this parent, if any, by
displaying the
it and all of its children jobs and other descendents complete, even if the parent job itself has completed. Only the parent
job created in CWA is displayed in the CWA console. You can drill down to the descendents of this parent, if any, by
displaying the
Jobs
tab of the
RunInfo
tab of the parent job’s
Job Details
dialog. These child jobs are displayed in a
job tree to illustrate their relationships and are color-coded and assigned a letter to indicate each job’s current status.