SAP Business Warehouse job definition

Control-M for SAP can automate the following Business Warehouse process jobs:

• Defining a Process Chain job: Control-M can be used to schedule, monitor, and post-process existing Process Chains from SAP-BW. Therefore, you must first create and test the Process Chains using SAP-BW tools provided by SAP GUI. For more information on how to create and test Process Chains, refer to the SAP documentation.

  After you create a Process Chain in SAP, you can create a Control-M job that is used to run it. Running this Control-M job starts the Process Chain in SAP and enables you to monitor it.

  The monitoring procedure in Control-M does not monitor a specific CCMS job in SAP-BW, since a Process Chain in SAP-BW includes several CCMS jobs. Instead, it uses BAPIs to start and monitor the Process Chain as a logical unit, not limited to a specific process or CCMS job. This means that the entire Process Chain, the details of which can be displayed in SAP GUI as many processes, are represented in Control-M as one job.

  The Output of the Control-M job includes information about the updated status of each process in the chain and the number of records transferred and requested. You can define post-processing rules in Control-M based on this information.

  The output file for Process Chain prints a summary before each section that describes a step. This summary can then be used in On Statement processing. Format: <step_type>_<status>_<variant>.

TRIGGER_FINISHED_START

• Defining an Info Package job: To use Control-M to schedule, monitor, and post-process existing Info Packages from SAP-BW, first create and test the Info Packages using SAP-BW tools provided by SAPGUI. For more information on how to create and test SAP-BW Info Packages, refer to SAP documentation.

  After creating an InfoPackage in SAP, you can create a Control-M job to run it. Running this Control-M job starts the Info Package in SAP and enables you to monitor it.

  The monitoring procedure in Control-M does not monitor a specific CCMS job, since an Info Package run in SAP-BW usually includes several CCMS jobs and other operations. Instead, it uses SAP BAPIs to start and monitor the Info Package as a logical unit that is not limited to one specific CCMS job. The SAP XT process should be started in order to perform the monitoring.

  The Output of the Control-M job includes information similar to that displayed on the SAP-BW status panel of the monitoring screen of an Info Package specific run (transaction RSA1), including error messages. You can define post-processing rules in Control-M based on this information.