Setting layout to a report in background job

Hi.
Does anybody knows how I set layouts dynamically to a report output, given that such report is scheduled to run once a day in a background job?
It would work for me, either: through SM36 or coding JOB_OPEN / JOB_SUBMIT / JOB_CLOSE (or any other option, if available).
My requirement is to execute every night few reports, each with their corresponding variants and layouts.
Something like:
RUN <report1> VARIANT <variant1> LAYOUT <layout1> JOB <job>. (it would output and xls file).
RUN <report2> VARIANT <variant2> LAYOUT <layout1> JOB <job>. (it would output another xls file).
RUN <report3> VARIANT <variant3> LAYOUT <layout2> JOB <job>. (it would output a 3rd xls file).
How should I do to inform variant and layout parameters?
Thank you.
Rafael.

I think I didn't make myself clear in my explanation. Sorry about that.
My question is, I can create a new field in selection-screen specifically to layout and it would work. However, as I'm running it in background, the ALV will not be shown and the output file must be the export of the ALV with the layout (if in XLS, it'd be even better, but in .CSV would work as well). I just don't think it would work with a .TXT output, because there's no way to reflect the layout in a .TXT file.
Is there any way of having the ALV inside the output file (saved in the server, in background processing)?
Thank you so much!
Edited by: rvsilvax on Nov 30, 2011 3:45 PM

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EVENT_ID                          = ' '
EVENT_PARAM                       = ' '
EVENT_PERIODIC                    = ' '
      jobcount                          = v_jobcount
      jobname                           = v_jobname
LASTSTRTDT                        = NO_DATE
LASTSTRTTM                        = NO_TIME
PRDDAYS                           = 0
PRDHOURS                          = 0
PRDMINS                           = 0
PRDMONTHS                         = 0
PRDWEEKS                          = 0
PREDJOB_CHECKSTAT                 = ' '
PRED_JOBCOUNT                     = ' '
PRED_JOBNAME                      = ' '
SDLSTRTDT                         = NO_DATE
SDLSTRTTM                         = NO_TIME
STARTDATE_RESTRICTION             = BTC_PROCESS_ALWAYS
     strtimmed                         = 'X'
TARGETSYSTEM                      = ' '
START_ON_WORKDAY_NOT_BEFORE       = SY-DATUM
START_ON_WORKDAY_NR               = 0
WORKDAY_COUNT_DIRECTION           = 0
RECIPIENT_OBJ                     =
TARGETSERVER                      = ' '
DONT_RELEASE                      = ' '
TARGETGROUP                       = ' '
DIRECT_START                      =
IMPORTING
JOB_WAS_RELEASED                  =
CHANGING
RET                               =
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.
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regards
Pankaj

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I tried to run an ALv report in the foreground and it works perfectly fine and shows 42 columns. But when i run it in the background, the resultset only contains 12 columns. Is there a particular reason why this is happening. What steps can i take to remedy this.
~thanks, appreciate it.

You do it like this...
REPORT zdummy_sandbox NO STANDARD PAGE HEADING line-SIZE 255.
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I have following requirement.
I am executing a Report. At end of report I am executing an event.
On the bases of event a background job runs.
Problem is that, I want to pass one field data from report to background job.
I already tested SET PARAMETER/GET PARAMETER is not working.
Is there any way any one can suggest, without using Tables.
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we are facing the spool issue with background scheduling and foreground.
If i run any report in foreground, the printout is coming in one page perfectly but if we scheduled the report in background, printouts are splitted into different pages.
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Hi Manoj
At present we are scheduling reports through background job. Every 65 lines(rows) the data like column names and headers are repeating in every page. i do not require this column names. The entire data should be displayed in single page without any names etc.,
my requirement
i want to print 1000 rows in a page without any page breaks. For this what are the steps i need to take care. please help me
regards
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Edited by: Ramesh Sammiti on Dec 7, 2009 11:45 AM
Edited by: Ramesh Sammiti on Dec 7, 2009 11:46 AM
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Hi All,
I wrote a report and specified the line size in the report header:
REPORT /sappssrm/option_handler
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I want to run this report as background job and get a spool list with results of the report. I expected the width of the spool output to be well defined and it works in one system. However, in another systen, the line / page width is much smaller, and the system inserts line breaks in the output splitting my lines into two which causes very ugly results.
It seems that the LINE-SIZE specified in the report header doesn't affect the output width in every system.
Can anyone advice?
Regards
Wolfgang

Hi Siggi,
thanks for your reply. Actually I changed that already yesterday...
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It seems, the background job keeps old versions of the program, even if you import a new program version. I created a new job with the same program and it worked.
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Wolfgang

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Hi All,
I have a issue while the deleting the file from application server.
I am using the statement DELETE DATASET in my program to delete the file from app server.
I am able to delete the file from the app server when i run the program from app server.
When i run the same report from background job i am getting the message called System exception.
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Hi All,
I get all the authorization sto delete the file from application serever.
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