Schedule Background jobs automatically -

Question

Hello Guys,
I have the following requirement.
I have a copy program in BPS-SEM(ABAP program).
Users have to run the copy program for different combinations like
variant:1
costcenetr 100-200
valuetype - 10
user 1
variant:2
costcenetr 400-500
valuetype - 10 to 20
user 1
variant:3
costcenetr 1000 to 2000
valuetype - 50 to 70
user 2
...etc.maybe there will be 10 to 15 variants will be created by 4-5 different users .
I have to schedule the above jobs in sequence. The user wants to determine
variant 1 - seq 1
variant 4 - seq 2 after completing variant 1
variant3  - seq3 after completing variant 4
so I have to schedule all the variants in sequence the user wants to schedule the job.
After all the above jobs are done, I have to schedule a job with variant called - calculate all functions. This has to be last after running all the above variants.
My question is
4 users have created 10 variants.
I want to schedule the above variants in sequence in which the user wants to do execute it.(Is there anyway user can choose the sequence )
2.After running all the above variants I have one variant which I have to run after completing the above variants.
Thanks for your help guys.

Answer 1

Hi,
While Scheduling jobs through SM36 you have to specifiy the start condition for a Job.
You can specify the START CONDITION as 'AFTER JOB'. So the first JOB will be scheduled normally. For all the Other JOBS, we will specify the start condition as the Previous JOB.In this case the Job will run After the completion of the previous Job.
So you can schedule all the JOBS in sequence for all the Variants. So every JOB will run one after other in sequence
Go through the link below
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bw21c/helpdata/en/c4/3a7fae505211d189550000e829fbbd/content.htm
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Regards,
Abhishek