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Scheduling Applications 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.
Managing SAP jobs
This section describes how to manage SAP jobs.
Mapping between HCL Workload Automation and SAP job states

Scheduling Applications with HCL Workload Automation
- Overview
  Learn about plug-ins and access methods and how you can use them to extend HCL Workload Automation scheduling capabilities to external applications and systems.
- Job plug-ins 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.
    - Managing SAP jobs
      This section describes how to manage SAP jobs.
      - Displaying details about a standard SAP job
      - Verifying the status of a standard SAP job
      - Deleting a standard SAP job from the SAP database
      - Balancing SAP workload using server groups
      - Mapping between HCL Workload Automation and SAP job states
      - Managing spools
        Browse spool lists on request without having to download the entire spool which can occupy significant space on the file system.
      - Killing an SAP job instance
      - Raising an SAP event
      - Rerunning a standard SAP job
        You can rerun a standard SAP job from the start, or from a specific numeric step of the SAP instruction.
    - 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.

Mapping between HCL Workload Automation and SAP job states

When an SAP job is launched by HCL Workload Automation, you can monitor its progress. The status transitions in HCL Workload Automation (internal status) and the corresponding SAP status are listed in Status transitions in HCL Workload Automation (internal status) and the corresponding SAP R/3 status.

Table 1. Status transitions in HCL Workload Automation (internal status) and the corresponding SAP R/3 status
HCL Workload Automation Job State	SAP Job State
INTRO	Not Available
WAIT	Ready, Release
EXEC	Active
SUCC	Finished
ABEND	Canceled

The INTRO state indicates that HCL Workload Automation is in the process of introducing the job, but in SAP, the job has not yet entered the ready state. Because it takes some time to get a job queued and into the ready column, the INTRO state might last a few minutes if the SAP system is particularly busy.

Even if a job is finished in SAP, HCL Workload Automation keeps it in the EXEC state if its BDC sessions are not complete and you have not selected the Disable BDC Wait option. For details about this option, see Using the BDC Wait option.

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