Scheduling a background job using Job_Submit and Job_Close FM

Hi Guys,
              I am calling a report in background using Job_Submit and Job_Close FM's.
I am not providing start time and date in the Job_close FM, in this case, when the job will be scheduled to start.
Even after an hour, job status is still scheduled.
I am not exporting variant, since I am using memory ID.
Thanks
Edited by: sapgeek007 on May 11, 2009 4:11 AM

In Job_close fm use the parameter 'STRTIMMED'
CALL FUNCTION 'JOB_CLOSE'
  EXPORTING
    jobcount                          = LV_NUMBER
    jobname                           = LV_NAME
    STRTIMMED                         = 'X'
EXCEPTIONS
   CANT_START_IMMEDIATE              = 1
   INVALID_STARTDATE                 = 2
   JOBNAME_MISSING                   = 3
   JOB_CLOSE_FAILED                  = 4
   JOB_NOSTEPS                       = 5
   JOB_NOTEX                         = 6
   LOCK_FAILED                       = 7
   INVALID_TARGET                    = 8
   OTHERS                            = 9
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
        WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
ENDIF.
That would start the background job immediately.
Regards,
Deepak

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    be automatically moved to the archive/repository. Storage Mode parameter on the same screen
    could be used to immediately send the output to archive instead of creating a spool request.
    Configuring user access:
    1. To access a report output created by a background job, a user must have at
    least access to SP01 (Spool requests) transaction without restriction on the user
    name (however by itself it will not let the user to see all spool requests). To have
    that access the user must have S_ADMI_FCD authorization object in the profile with
    SPOR (or SP01) value of S_ADMI_FCD parameter (maintained by Security).
    2. To access a particular job’s output in the spool, the user must have
    S_SPO_ACT object in the profile with SPOAUTH parameter matching the value used
    in the Print Specifications of the job (see p. 3.d above).
    3. Levels of access to the spool (display, print once, reprint, download, etc) are
    controlled by SPOACTION parameter of S_SPO_ACT. The user must have at least
    BASE access (display).
    On-line reports:
    1. Exactly the same configuration can be maintained for any output produced
    from R/3. If a user clicks “Parameters” button on a SAP Printer selection dialog, it
    allows to specify all the parameters as described in p. 3 of
    “Scheduling background jobs” section. Thus any output created by an online report
    can be saved and accessed by any user authorized to access that spool request
    (access restriction provided by the Authorization field of the spool request
    attributes, see p. 3.d of “Scheduling background jobs” section).
    Access to report’s output:
    1. A user that had proper access (see Configuring user access above) can
    retrieve a job/report output through transaction SP01.
    2. The selection screen can be configured by clicking “Further selection
    criteria…” button (e.g. to bring “Spool request name (suffix 2)” field or hide other
    fields).
    3. The following fields can be used to search for a specific output (Note that
    Created By must be blank when searching for scheduled job’s outputs)
    a. Spool request name (suffix 2) – corresponds to a spool name in p. 3.b in
    “Scheduling background jobs” section above).
    b. Date created – to find an output of a job that ran within a certain date range.
    c. Title – corresponds to spool Title in p. 3.c in “Scheduling background jobs”
    section above).
    d. Department - corresponds to spool Department in p. 3.e in “Scheduling
    background jobs” section above).
    4. Upon entering selection criteria, the user clicks the Execute button to
    retrieve the list of matching spool requests.
    5. From the spool list the user can use several function such as view the
    content of a spool request, print the spool request, view attributed of the spool
    request, etc. (some functions may need special authorization, see p.3 in
    Configuring user access)
    a. Click the Print button to print the spool request with the default attributes
    (usually defined with the job definition). It will print it on a printer that was
    specified when a job was created.
    b. Click the “Print with changed attributed” button to print the spool request
    with the different attributes (e.g. changing the printer name).
    c. Click the “Display contents” button to preview the spool request contents. A
    Print and Download functions are available from the preview mode.

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