Reporting agent functions

Question

can any body xplain how to schedule tasks thru "reporting agent". pls xplain in detailed steps.

Answer 1

Hi,
The functions of the reporting agent are triggered by Information Broadcasting.
The Reporting Agent was not developed any further. It was removed from the current version of the Data Warehousing Workbench. You can now only reach the Reporting Agent using transaction code REPORTING_AGENT.
Effects on the Dataset
A migration of Reporting Agent settings and Reporting Agent packages by broadcast settings is not planned.
No more new developments are being made for the Reporting Agent. The Reporting Agent functions are now covered by Information Broadcasting, SAP NetWeaver Portal and the Alert Framework. The Reporting Agent has been removed from the Data Warehousing Workbench. You can still maintain the Reporting Agent settings using the REPORTING_AGENT transaction. These settings can be maintained for queries and Web templates from SAP BW 3.x only.
General Practices with Migration
The system does not support the migration of Reporting Agent settings for information broadcasting.
The Reporting Agent is a tool used to schedule reporting functions in the background.
The following functions are available:
·        Evaluating exceptions
·        Printing queries
·        Pre-calculating Web templates
·        Pre-calculating characteristic variables of type pre-calculated value sets
·        Pre-calculation of queries for Crystal reports
·        Managing bookmarks
Note that you can only use the Reporting Agent if you are working with queries and Web templates in the SAP BW 3.x format.
As of SAP NetWeaver 2004s, the Reporting Agent functions are covered by Information Broadcasting. We recommend that you use Information Broadcasting instead of the Reporting Agent.
For more information, see Information Broadcasting.
Use
       1.      You make settings for the specified reporting functions.
       2.      You assign the individual settings to scheduling packages for background processing.
       3.      You schedule scheduling packages as a job or within a process chain.
The last two points do not apply to managing bookmarks.
Structure
The Reporting Agent interfaces are made up of two tree structures in the functional areas Exceptions, Print, Web Templates, and Value Sets.
·         The left-hand tree gives you an overview of the available objects as well as the settings that have already been made. To give you a better overview, you can filter according to queries with settings in the Exceptions and Print functions.
·         The right-hand tree gives you an overview of the scheduling package and manages the background processing.
In the Bookmarks functional area, the Reporting Agent scheduler interfaces are made up of a single tree structure.
Integration
The following graphic gives an overview of the different functional areas for the Report Agent and its integration:
See also:
Defining Exceptions Settings and Exception Reporting
Defining the Print Setting
Defining the Web Template Setting
Defining the Value Set Setting
Defining Crystal Reports Query Settings
Managing Bookmarks
You have defined and actively saved one or more Reporting Agent settings.
You have created one or more scheduling packages.
Procedure
Select the setting that you want to schedule in the left Reporting Agent Settings tree in the Reporting Agent Scheduler.
Use drag and drop to assign the setting to the corresponding scheduling package in the right-hand tree.
If the selected Reporting Agent setting from the Exceptions or Print function areas relates to a query with variables, you must select a variant of the query so that the scheduling package can be scheduled.
You are in the view  Change in the right-hand tree of the Reporting Agent Scheduler. From the scheduling package context menu, choose Assign Variants The Variant Catalog. dialog window appears.
Select the variant you want and choose  Select. The system adds the selected variants in the right tree in the Reporting Agent Scheduler in the Variant column.
If you want to create a new variant for the required query or if you want to change variants already created, you have the option to process the variants in both the left and right-hand tree in the Reporting Agent Scheduler.
Select Maintain Variants via the context menu of the Reporting Agent setting. You the see a screen on which you can process the variants for the selected query ( Create,  Display,  Change).
Select the required variants as described above.
Choose Next.
You use this function to monitor and change the time and date settings on the mobile device.
Prerequisites
     You have assigned the mobile device to a particular time zone.
     The synchronization service has been configured.
Features
You have the following options:
Parameters for TIME_AGENT
Parameters
Description
Possible Values
AGENT_MODE
Activate or deactivate monitoring
ON, OFF
AGENT_HISTORY
Activate and deactivate the log function for the time and date setting
TRUE, FALSE
AGENT_HISTORY_INTERVAL
Define intervals for logging (in minutes)
AGENT_REPORT_ON_FIRST_CYCLE
Or AGENT_REPORT_ON_SECOND_CYCLE
Define synchronization cycle for sending data if the device is used by multiple users.
Set at least one of the parameters.
TRUE, FALSE
AGENT_TRIGGER_ON_SYNC_COUNT
Or
Define the number of synchronization cycles run before data is sent to server
Any integer
0 – Never
1 – With every synchronization
2 – With every second synchronization
AGENT_TRIGGER_ON_SYNC_INTERVAL
and AGENT_TRIGGER_ON_SYNC_INTERVALTYPE
Determine the intervals (type and interval) with which the data is sent to server
Interval type:
M – Minutes
H – Hours
D – Days
Interval:
Any integer
0 – Never
1 – In intervals of one minute, one hour, one day.
Activities
You define the values for the parameters in a parameter set (see Defining the Parameter Sets). Use the TIME_AGENT type to monitor the time and date settings.