Calling fm in new task only when it is possible.

I'm calling a fm in a new task, and I need to check it is possible to open a new task before proceeding.
How can I check the number of open tasks? How can I check the maximum number of tasks allowed?
Thanks in advance.

Hi!
You don't have to check it, it is handled by SAP automatically.
The only requirement, there has to be at least 3 dialog processes in your SAP system.
For this check transaction SM50.
Because startin an FM in a new task is an asyncronous processing, it's result is not important to your program run.
Regards
Tamá

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The program is triggered from VL02N tcode.
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I can't figure out the issue. i gues this is happening because print program is already running in Update task. I also tried with RFC enabled FM. Please help me resolve/understand the issue.
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Regards,
Ronjan.

Hi Ronjan,
COMMUNICATION_FAILURE. Message is Error when opening an RFC connection
I guess the reason for the above is that every RFC call synchronous/Asynchronous issues a DB COMMIT and we cannot have DB COMMITs in the V1/V2 updates, please go through the link below.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp2/helpdata/en/23/e9aa61638e404d81575e939b5cd847/frameset.htm
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@Mainak
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>To optimize the performance of teh above query I am planning to use call function CALL FUNCTION - STARTING NEW TASK .....
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try CALL FUNCTION func STARTING NEW TASK task1 DESTINATION dest IN GROUP DEFAULT, this will enable to run FM in groups (parallel processing) and might help in performance as will itself take care of available Application server.
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Call function starting new task:

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