Automated transports schedule

Question

Hi Gurus,
I am trying to setup my transports to import on a different time interval other than hourly or daily.  I have tried to creat an hourly import in STMS and then copy the job in SM37 to schedule it to run at different times but then it only runs once and than fails from that point on.   This is documented in oss note 398589 but I can not find any procedure that tells me how I can schedule more than one import job or how to adjust the import times. 
What I am trying to do is not import from 8am -5pm into our QA system but after that, hourly imports or scheduled times for imports would work fine. 
Any suggestions?
Lee

Answer 1

Thank You.  I got it working based on the input you both provided. 
Here's what I did:
First, I Made the event in SM64 called STMS_KICKOFF
I checked this help page to show me how to trigger an event.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/fa/096f33543b11d1898e0000e8322d00/frameset.htm 
In SE38, I copied the code in the above help page ...
*& Report  ZSTMS_EVENT_RAISE
REPORT  ZSTMS_EVENT_RAISE.
DATA:
    p_eventid   TYPE btceventid,
    p_eventparm TYPE btcevtparm,
    p_server    TYPE btcserver.
Obligatory parameter: EventID.
EventID should be an existing event already defined in transaction
SM64 or using CREATE method of class CL_BATCH_EVENT:
  p_eventid   = 'STMS_KICKOFF'.
Optional parameters: event parameter and target server.
  p_eventparm = 'Event parameter'.
  p_server    = ''.
  CALL METHOD cl_batch_event=>raise
    EXPORTING
      i_eventparm                    = p_eventparm
      i_server                       = p_server
      i_eventid                      = p_eventid
    EXCEPTIONS
      excpt_raise_failed             = 1
      excpt_server_accepts_no_events = 2
      excpt_raise_forbidden          = 3
      excpt_unknown_event            = 4
      excpt_no_authority             = 5
      OTHERS                         = 6.
  CASE sy-subrc.
    WHEN 0.
      EXIT.
    WHEN 1 OR 2 OR 3.
Raise failed.
    WHEN 4.
Event does not exist.
    WHEN OTHERS.
u2022     Raised failed due to unknown reason.
I then went into STMS and selected the system and hit the big truck to schedule the jobs. 
I selected AFTER EVENT
And under event name I put the event I created in SM64  (STMS_KICKOFF)
I selected execute import Periodically and saved it.
Then I went into SM36 and Created a job  called STMS_JOB_1700 using the step ZSTMS_EVENT_RAISE to run daily at 1700.  I copied the job to run at the times I wanted.   It ran and kicked off the import job which ran properly too.
It's working great.  Thanks.
Lee