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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.
Configuring the SAP environment
You must configure the SAP environment before using the SAP access method.
Migrating from previous versions

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.
      - Overview
      - Creating the HCL Workload Automation RFC user
      - Creating the authorization profile for the HCL Workload Automation user
        The two ways to create the authorization profile for the HCL Workload Automation user.
      - Copying the correction and transport files
      - Importing ABAP/4 function modules into SAP
        How to generate, activate and commit new ABAP/4 modules to a SAP system.
      - Changing the HCL Workload Automation RFC user ID password
      - Securing data communication
        You can increase the security of your SAP system through the use of an external security product. Secure Network Communications (SNC) can integrate the external security product with the SAP system.
      - Print parameter and job class issues
      - Unicode support
      - Migrating from previous versions
    - 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.
    - 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.

Migrating from previous versions

This version of HCL Workload Automation for SAP supports all the SAP versions listed in HCL Workload Automation Detailed System Requirements. The HCL Workload Automation access method for SAP uses the official SAP RFC interfaces for job scheduling. These are:

The BC-XBP 6.10 (V2.0) Interface function modules for SAP versions 6.10 and later.
The BC-XBP 7.00 (V3.0) Interface function modules for SAP versions 7.00, Support Package 16, in addition to the BC-XBP 6.10 (V2.0) function modules.

To avoid conflicts with other vendors, the HCL Workload Automation ABAP modules now belong to the HCL Workload Automation partner namespace J_1O1_xxx and /IBMTWS. After you have completed the imports as described in Importing ABAP/4 function modules into SAP, the RFC J_1O1_xxx function modules and the /IBMTWS function modules are installed on your system.

If you had a previous installation of HCL Workload Automation extended agent for SAP on your system, you can delete the following function modules from your SAP system:

Z_MAE2_BDC_STATUS 
Z_MAE2_DATE_TIME 
Z_MAE2_JOB_COPY 
Z_MAE2_JOB_DELETE 
Z_MAE2_JOB_FIND 
Z_MAE2_JOB_FINDALL 
Z_MAE2_JOB_LOG 
Z_MAE2_JOB_OPEN 
Z_MAE2_JOB_START 
Z_MAE2_JOB_STATUS 
Z_MAE2_JOB_STOP

These are old versions of the ABAP functions, which belong to the customer name space. You can also delete the function group YMA3. It is not necessary to delete the function modules and the function group, but delete them if you want to clean up your system.

To upgrade SAP, perform the following steps:

Uninstall the HCL Workload Automation ABAP module.
Upgrade SAP.
Install the HCL Workload Automation ABAP module.