Features

HCL Workload Automation for SAP features shows the tasks you can perform with HCL Workload Automation for SAP either in a distributed or an end-to-end environment, or both.
Table 1. HCL Workload Automation for SAP features
Feature Distributed environment End-to-end
Using HCL Workload Automation standard job dependencies and controls on SAP jobs ✓ ✓
Listing jobs, defining jobs, variants, and extended variants using the HCL Workload Automation interface ✓ ✓
Defining jobs and variants dynamically at run time ✓ ✓
Scheduling SAP jobs to run on specified days and times, and in a prescribed order ✓ ✓
Scheduling SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) jobs to gain greater control over your SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) reports through the HCL Workload Automation plug-in for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI). ✓ ✓
Scheduling SAP Process Integration (PI) Channel jobs to control communication channels between the Process Integrator and a backend SAP R/3 system. ✓ ✓
Scheduling and monitoring job scheduling tasks available from the SAP Solution Manager user interface. ✓
Defining the national language support options ✓ ✓
Using the SAP Business Warehouse Support functions ✓ ✓
Customizing job execution return codes ✓ ✓
Using SAP logon groups for load balancing and fault-tolerance ✓ ✓
Using Business Component-eXternal Interface Background Processing (XBP 2.0 and later) interface support to:
  • Collect intercepted jobs
  • Track child jobs
  • Keep all job attributes when you rerun a job
  • Raise events
  • Track child jobs
  • Keep all job attributes when you rerun a job
  • Raise events
Using Business Component-eXternal Interface Background Processing (XBP 3.0) interface support to:
  • Create criteria profiles to log raised events, reorganize the event history, and intercept and relaunch jobs, according to the criteria you specify.
  • SAP application log and application return code
  • Spool list request and display for jobs that have run.
  • Temporary variants
  • Create criteria profiles to log raised events, reorganize the event history, and intercept and relaunch jobs, according to the criteria you specify.
  • SAP application log and application return code
  • Spool list request and display for jobs that have run.
  • Temporary variants
Assigning an SAP job to a server group, for batch processing ✓ ✓
Exporting SAP factory calendars and adding their definitions to the HCL Workload Automation database ✓
Defining internetwork dependencies and event rules for HCL Workload Automation based on SAP events ✓
Defining event rules based on IDoc records ✓
Defining event rules based on CCMS Monitoring Architecture alerts ✓
Rerunning a job that submits a process chain from a specific process, from failed processes, or as a new instance ✓ ✓
Displaying the details of a job that submits a process chain ✓ ✓
Enabling job throttling ✓ ✓