Welcome
Scheduling Job Integrations with IBM 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 IBM Workload Scheduler and provides a single point of entry for automating the launching of jobs, monitoring the status of jobs and managing exceptions and recovery.
Configuring the SAP environment
You must configure the SAP environment before using the SAP access method.
Overview

Product requirements
This section contains links to the IBM® Workload Scheduler Download Documents, System Requirements, and Release Notes.
Product Library in PDF format
This section contains links to the PDF versions of all the publications provided in IBM Documentation for IBM Workload Automation.
Considerations for GDPR readiness
Overview
Mobile Applications Userʼs Guide
Dynamic Workload Console User's Guide
AI Data Advisor (AIDA) User's Guide
Scheduling Job Integrations with IBM Workload Automation
- Job integrations to extend workload scheduling capabilities
- Access methods
- Integration with SAP
  - Introducing IBM Workload Scheduler for SAP
    Improve SAP operations and enable business growth with IBM Workload Scheduler.
  - Access method for SAP
    The SAP R/3 batch access method enables communication between an external SAP R/3 system and IBM Workload Scheduler 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.
      - Overview
      - Creating the IBM Workload Scheduler RFC user
      - Creating the authorization profile for the IBM Workload Scheduler user
        The two ways to create the authorization profile for the IBM Workload Scheduler user.
      - Copying the correction and transport files
      - Importing ABAP/4 function modules into SAP
        How to generate, activate and commit new ABAP/4 modules to a SAP system.
      - Changing the IBM Workload Scheduler RFC user ID password
      - Securing data communication
        You can increase the security of your SAP system through the use of an external security product. Secure Network Communications (SNC) can integrate the external security product with the SAP system.
      - Print parameter and job class issues
      - Unicode support
      - Migrating from previous versions
    - 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 IBM Workload Scheduler.
    - Managing SAP jobs
      This section describes how to manage SAP jobs.
    - 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
      IBM Workload Scheduler 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 IBM Workload Scheduler 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 IBM Workload Scheduler.
    - 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 IBM Workload Scheduler composer command line, to add the exported calendar definitions to the IBM Workload Scheduler database.
    - Defining internetwork dependencies and event rules based on SAP background events
      This section describes how to define internetwork dependencies and event rules for IBM Workload Scheduler based on SAP background events.
    - Defining event rules based on IDoc records
      You can use IBM Workload Scheduler to monitor Intermediate Document (IDoc) records in SAP systems and forward events to the IBM Workload Scheduler 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 IBM Workload Scheduler workstation and use localized characters for IBM Workload Scheduler job names, job streams, and SAP variants.
    - Troubleshooting
      Learn what to do if you get any problems while installing or using IBM Workload Scheduler access methods or plug-ins.
  - Scheduling jobs on IBM Workload Scheduler from SAP Solution Manager
    IBM Workload Scheduler and SAP Solution Manager are integrated to allow the IBM Workload Scheduler engine to run the job scheduling tasks available from the Solution Manager user interface.
IBM® Workload Scheduler
Welcome to the IBM® Workload Scheduler documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use IBM Workload Scheduler. The documentation has been updated for IBM Workload Scheduler Version 10.2.4.
IBM Z Workload Scheduler
Welcome to the IBM Z Workload Scheduler documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the product. The documentation has been updated for version 10.2 SPE (Revised April 2025).
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Overview

About this task

Here is an overview of the customization procedure:

Procedure

Create a new user ID for RFC communications in SAP for IBM Workload Scheduler.
Create the authorization profile as described in Creating the authorization profile for the IBM Workload Scheduler user.
Copy the correction and transport files from the IBM Workload Scheduler server to the SAP server.
Import the correction and transport files into SAP and verify the installation.

Results

Note: The import procedure adds new ABAP/4 function modules and several new internal tables to the SAP system. It does not modify any of the existing objects.