Regarding Dead line monitoring & Background Job

Hi Dear PMs,
plz let me know regarding Deadline Monitoring (IP30) for Maint plan. Why it is requires? only for scheduling multiple plans at a time or is their any other reason?
What is the meaning of,
  1. Interval for Call Objects
  2. Rescheduling included
  3. Immediate start for all in IP30 screen.
Why we need to run Back ground job? - only for scheduling open & save daily in background....or for any other reason?
requested you to giv in detail...
Thanks in Advance...
Amol.

In short, as the name suggest deadline monitoring is used to monitor deadlines so that any due activity could be done well in time. Deadline monitoring helps you to automatically schedule entries that are due within this period.  With the help of Deadline Monitoring, you could schedule multiple Maintenance Plans at the same time from the same transaction with respect to Plant maintenance. For different modules it could used for different purposes. In MM/WM, it could be used for mass changing the batch status. It is also used in Workflows. W.r.t PM, Using IP10, you are able to schedule maintenance plans individually, so to reduce time delays and increase efficiency, Deadline Monitoring is used. 
Using F1 help on each of these fields should be helpful.
Interval of Call Objects specify the duration for which you want to execute monitoring of due entries. For example, mentioning 1 mon here would show me all the maintenance plan due for the complete month.
Immediate start for all: You can use this indicator to show whether the maintenance plans that correspond with the selection criteria are to be scheduled immediately, or whether a list of the selected maintenance plans is to be displayed.
Rescheduling Inc: You can use the automatic deadline monitoring to schedule a maintenance plan again or for the first time. If you need to reschedule any maintenance plan after having scheduled it, this indicator must be checked:
The following link might help you understand:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/EN/3c/abb350413911d1893d0000e8323c4f/frameset.htm
Executing in Background helps as it does not bother you to open up the ip30 screen and then print the document. The Document is printed automatically without you having to bother about it within the period u specify behind your background job settings. It could be monthly, daily, weekly, yearly etc. etc.
Edited by: Usman Kahoot on Apr 5, 2010 10:34 AM

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