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Scheduling Job Integrations with HCL Workload Automation
Integration with SAP
Access method for SAP
The SAP R/3 batch access method enables communication between an external SAP R/3 system and HCL Workload Automation and provides a single point of entry for automating the launching of jobs, monitoring the status of jobs and managing exceptions and recovery.
Defining SAP jobs
You must define some jobs to be able to run jobs on an SAP workstation from HCL Workload Automation.

Scheduling Job Integrations with HCL Workload Automation
- Job integrations to extend workload scheduling capabilities
- Access methods
- Integration with SAP
  - Introducing HCL Workload Automation for SAP
    Improve SAP operations and enable business growth with HCL Workload Automation.
  - Access method for SAP
    The SAP R/3 batch access method enables communication between an external SAP R/3 system and HCL Workload Automation and provides a single point of entry for automating the launching of jobs, monitoring the status of jobs and managing exceptions and recovery.
    - Scheduling process for the agent workstation hosting the r3batch access method
    - Roles and responsibilities
    - Configuring user authorization (Security file)
    - Configuring the SAP environment
      You must configure the SAP environment before using the SAP access method.
    - Configuring the SAP access method
      This section provides detailed information about the SAP options file creation.
    - Defining SAP jobs
      You must define some jobs to be able to run jobs on an SAP workstation from HCL Workload Automation.
      - Creating SAP Standard R/3 jobs from the Dynamic Workload Console
        How to create and manage an SAP job that is associated to an HCL Workload Automation job that manages it.
      - Setting the SAP data connection
        You can configure a default connection to be used when performing actions that access the remote SAP system.
      - Managing SAP variants using the Dynamic Workload Console
        Managing variants using the Dynamic Workload Console.
      - Editing a standard SAP job
      - Task string to define SAP jobs
    - Managing SAP jobs
      This section describes how to manage SAP jobs.
    - Defining SAP jobs dynamically
      This section describes how to create and submit SAP jobs dynamically without creating or referencing predefined job templates.
    - Defining conditions and criteria
      HCL Workload Automation accesses the Computer Center Management System (CCMS) Background Processing components of SAP systems through the BC-XBP interface to provide additional capabilities from the Dynamic Workload Console, one of those being the Criteria Manager.
    - Using the BDC Wait option
      By using the Batch Data Collector (BDC) Wait option, you can specify that a SAP job launched by HCL Workload Automation is not to be considered complete until all of its BDC sessions have completed.
    - Job interception and parent-child features
      This section describes how the job interception and parent-child features of BC-XBP 2.0 and 3.0 are supported by HCL Workload Automation.
    - Using Business Information Warehouse
      Business Information Warehouse (BIW) is a data warehouse solution tailored to SAP.
    - Job throttling feature
      Learn how the job throttling feature helps you to improve the efficiency of your scheduling on SAP systems and reduce the batch window for your SAP jobs to a minimum.
    - Exporting SAP factory calendars
      This section describes how to export SAP factory calendars into a file format that can be processed by the HCL Workload Automation composer command line, to add the exported calendar definitions to the HCL Workload Automation database.
    - Defining internetwork dependencies and event rules based on SAP background events
      This section describes how to define internetwork dependencies and event rules for HCL Workload Automation based on SAP background events.
    - Defining event rules based on IDoc records
      You can use HCL Workload Automation to monitor Intermediate Document (IDoc) records in SAP systems and forward events to the HCL Workload Automation event integration framework.
    - Defining event rules based on CCMS Monitoring Architecture alerts
      Use CCMS functions to check the performance of the various SAP system components, diagnose potential problems, and be alerted about error and warning conditions.
    - National Language support
      The National Language support feature allows you to install SAP on a localized HCL Workload Automation workstation and use localized characters for HCL Workload Automation job names, job streams, and SAP variants.
    - Troubleshooting
      Learn what to do if you get any problems while installing or using HCL Workload Automation access methods or plug-ins.
  - Scheduling jobs on HCL Workload Automation from SAP Solution Manager
    HCL Workload Automation and SAP Solution Manager are integrated to allow the HCL Workload Automation engine to run the job scheduling tasks available from the Solution Manager user interface.

Defining SAP jobs

You must define some jobs to be able to run jobs on an SAP workstation from HCL Workload Automation.

To define and manage jobs on an SAP workstation from HCL Workload Automation, you must define the following:

Jobs in SAP that you want to run under HCL Workload Automation control: You can define these jobs using standard SAP tools or using the Dynamic Workload Console.
Jobs in HCL Workload Automation that correspond to the jobs in SAP: The HCL Workload Automation job definitions are used in scheduling and defining dependencies, but the SAP jobs are actually run.

You can define SAP job definitions from the Dynamic Workload Console and then have HCL Workload Automation launch the jobs in SAP R/3 using jobs defined on the following workstations that support the r3batch access method:

An HCL Workload Automation extended agent workstation. A workstation that is hosted by a fault-tolerant agent or master workstation.
A dynamic agent workstation.
A dynamic pool.
A z-centric workstation.

You can manage your SAP environment from both:

An HCL Workload Automation distributed environment
An HCL Workload Automation for Z environment.

The SAP job definitions can reference the following types of SAP jobs:

Standard R/3
Business Warehouse Process Chains
Business Warehouse InfoPackages

For information about Business Warehouse Process Chains and Business Warehouse InfoPackages, see Using Business Information Warehouse.