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Creating Jobs - Basics

Job-type objects are probably the most used object types. They can be used for executing commands on computers or in Enterprise Business Solutions (SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle Applications, and Siebel). Individual Job object templates are available for each of these platforms because they all differ from each other. Therefore, the first step when you create a job is to decide upon the operating system or business solution on which it will actually run.

Procedure

Click the button in the toolbar. A window opens and lists all the available object types including the objects for the individual platforms. Select one of them.
Assign an appropriate name for the Job object and open it. Click the Notification tab
Agents are actually executing the job. Select the particular agent in the Host tab which runs on your computer or is connected to the business solution on which the commands should be processed.
The agent requires login information for the execution of the job. This information is stored in Login objects. Select the required one in "Login".
The various Job objects have their individual Host tabs, each depending on the platform. The settings that are available for job reports are what they have in common. Select where the job report should be stored. The particulars applying to the individual operating systems or Enterprise Business Solutions are described in the document Creating Jobs - Details.
The settings in the Runtime tab can be used for monitoring the job while it is being executed.
The following tabs are available in Job objects and can be used for storing the processing statements:

Pre-Process: Contains the statements which prepare the job for its execution. This tab is mainly used for setting attributes with :PUT_ATT (such as specifying the required agent).
Process: This tab is the core of the Job object in which the JCL statements can be written.
Post-Process: Contains the statements that should be executed when the job has already ended. For example, the report can be read (PREP_PROCESS_REPORT) or the job's return code (MODIFY_STATE) be modified.
Child Post-Process: This special Process tab is only available in SAP jobs. The statements it contains apply to all the job's children.

The order of the Process tabs listed above represents the order in which they are processed. A detailed overview is found in the document Stages of Workflow execution. You can also control the generation time of the Pre-Process and Process tabs with the option Generate at runtime which is available in the Notification tab. Activating of this option causes the two tabs not to be generated at object activation but rather when it is started. job activation and generation can take place at different points in time - when the object is executed in a workflow, for example.

More settings can be specified in Job objects. Detailed descriptions are available in the documents of the particular tabs.