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Detect Spawned Jobs

Indicates whether to detect and monitor jobs that were spawned by the current SAP job. A spawned job is a job created by another (parent) job, and monitored by Control-M. The following options are available:

If you select Start Spawned job, Control-M for SAP checks the status of each spawned job and starts any spawned job with Scheduled status.

The extractor process must be configured to detect spawned jobs and started. For more information, see Extractor Management.

NOTE: The specified job must exist in the same folder as the current job.

Usage

Optional

Format

Check box

Availability

For SAP R/3 jobs types:

  • Create a new job
  • Copy an existing job
  • Run a pre-defined SAP job
  • Monitor a scheduled SAP job

For SAP Business Warehouse Process Type:

  • Process Chain

Valid Values

For %%SAPR3-DETECT_OPTION

  • 1: (No Detection Needed)
  • 2: (Parent (current) Job definition)
  • 3: (A specific Job definition)

For %%SAPR3-DETECT_CHILD_JOBNAME

  • Name of the parent job (for option 2)
  • Name of the specific job (for option 3)

For %%SAPR3-DETECT_CHILD_TABLE

  • Name of the table in which the parent exists
  • For option 2 or 3 always set the value
    %%SCHEDTAB

For %%SAPR3-GROUP_ORDID

  • The Order ID of the table
  • For option 2 or 3 always set the value %%GROUP_ORDID

For %%SAPR3-DETECT_CHILD_RELEASE

  • Specify whether to start spawned jobs that have a status of Scheduled.
  • For option 2 or 3, set the following values:
  • Y - Start Spawned Jobs
  • N - Do not start Spawned Jobs

Variable Names

%%SAPR3-DETECT_OPTION

%%SAPR3-DETECT_CHILD_JOBNAME

%%SAPR3-DETECT_CHILD_RELEASE

%%SAPR3-DETECT_CHILD_TABLE

Related Variable

%%SAPR3-GROUP_ORDID

Parent Topic

SAP R3 parameters