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SAP Background Job Analysis Guide

The document provides an overview of the Background Job Analysis tool in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SPS 20, which helps identify system bottlenecks caused by background jobs. It outlines how to launch the tool and perform an analysis, detailing the output sections that display job execution times and graphical representations of job performance. The document is a custom version and not for production use, with a warning about its incomplete nature compared to the official SAP documentation.

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SAP Background Job Analysis Guide

The document provides an overview of the Background Job Analysis tool in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SPS 20, which helps identify system bottlenecks caused by background jobs. It outlines how to launch the tool and perform an analysis, detailing the output sections that display job execution times and graphical representations of job performance. The document is a custom version and not for production use, with a warning about its incomplete nature compared to the official SAP documentation.

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Background Job Analysis


Background job analysis (BACKGROUND_JOB_ANALYSIS) is a standalone tool that graphically displays data from transaction
SM37. It is part of the Service Tools for Applications Plug-In ST-A/PI, and is locally available in every SAP back-end system with a
recent ST-A/PI plug-in.

The tool was designed to identify system bottlenecks caused by background jobs. It can be used, for example, if you encountered a
performance issue at a specific time, and you want to find out what was running at that time on your system. The tool can help you
identify whether the jobs can be rescheduled to run at another time, or whether workload can be shifted to another server.

Launching the Tool

Open the Job Management - Administration app and under Common Tasks, choose Analyze Jobs.

 Note
You can also call the BACKGROUND_JOB_ANALYSIS tool in transaction ST13, or by executing the ABAP report /SSA/BTC in
transaction SA38/SE38/SE80.

Performing an Analysis

The entry screen is similar to transaction SM37, but you can only select the statuses Active, Finished, and Canceled (but not
Released or Scheduled).

The output screen contains the following three sections:

The first shows the selection criteria and provides information about how many job executions had a runtime of more than
5 minutes and how many with less than 5 minutes.

The second is a job list similar to transaction SM37, but it shows only the long-running jobs (longer than 5 minutes). It
shows the variant, executing server, and work process. The duration is shown in a hh:mm:ss format instead of seconds.

The third is a graphical representation of all the long-running jobs. The length of a bar represents the job runtime. The jobs
are arranged so that you can read which application server and which work process was utilized at which point in time.
Additionally, you see the average CPU idleness of the respective host server per clock hour (similar to transaction ST06).
The color scheme is the same as in SM37: green jobs finished successfully, red jobs canceled, and blue jobs are still active.

From within the graphic, you can navigate to transaction SM37 or STAD to view job details.

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