Tivoli Workload Scheduler

Hi all,
I want to know about scheduling the background jobs through TWS . Kindly help me by providing the documents required,
Thanks in advance

Santosh,
Contact the software vendor and they should confirm if their software is compatible with EBS or not. From this link I see that it does -- http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/scheduler-vdc/features.html
Thanks,
Hussein

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Hi Guys
Does any of you have experience if TWS does work with Netweaver 7.40 ?
We are upgrading from BW/NW 7.01 to BW/NW 7.40 and are using TWS 8.6 FP2.
Anyone who has upgraded to BW 7.40 and are using TWS (8.6), that can tell if this interface still works after going to BW 7.40 or if actions, like SW updates, must be planned?
(TWS is only connected to production system and we have no possibility to test the interface between TWS and BW/NW until after the production upgrade)
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Tom Bo

Hi Tom
We are upgrading from BW/NW 7.01 to BW/NW 7.40 and are using TWS 8.6 FP2.
For any SAP upgrade can be perform either SUM or SPAM/SAINT. I thing TWS will not support to perform the SAP upgrades as now. you may get in touch with IBM
Does any of you have experience if TWS does work with Netweaver 7.40 ?
Refer the IBM link
IBM Detailed System Requirements for Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications, V8.6 - United States
IBM TWS for Applications v8.5 for SAP support for SAP NW v7.3 - United States
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Ram

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Hello,
I have a customer who is looking to use Tivoli Work Scheduler with ODI.
Are there any references, best practices or general advice how to use TWS with ODI. Alternatively, if there is another recommended approach then i'd be interested to know.
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I ask because the dock connector on the second gen nano is not in the same place as the other iPods (the first gen nano for instance) and this may be your problem.
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In our pre-production BW system testing,when the process chains are being kicked off through Tivoli,they are not working.
We dont get issues when the chains are run directly in BW,without using Tivoli.
The jobs with 'after event' RSPROCESS setting that kick off next node on each node's completion,are not leaving out a 'copy' after a scheduled run.
So in the next run from Tivoli,the dependency job isnt there in scheduled status,which fails the chain.
We tried manually copying the dependency jobs on the nodes.Doing this,chain does kick off from Tivoli.But again jobs dont leave copies and next run from
Tivoli fails.We tried using 'periodic job' setting.This leaves copies of job.But then why is BW able to copy out and kick off jobs,while this isnt happening when kicked off through Tivoli.
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We suspect this either to be a authorization problem or an issue with how it works when kicked off through Tivoli.Process chain 'context' is somehow not created when it runs through Tivoli.
Anyone seen such an issue before?Suggestions are welcome..
cheers,
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Hi Manfred,
The chain does get kicked off from Tivoli.
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Hi P6 Guru.
Our customer is looking for the solution of job scheduling to control the jobs for P6 Web services API programs with other Web services programs outside P6. Some jobs would be triggered by scheduled date&time, some would be triggered by success states of predecessor jobs.
IBM Tivoli workload scheduler(TWS), HP OpenView are what I can image easily for the solution. But I'm wondering it is popular to use such kind of system.
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AppWorx, now UC4, is one possibility but there is little, if anything, they can do that can not be done through the proper use of the DBMS_SCHEDULER package.
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IBM Tivol as a schedular for SAP XI

Hi All,
SAP technical feasibility of using IBM Tivoli as a Master scheduler for XI. Can we leverage Tivoli to schedule XI end to end jobs
please help on this sending any reference documents
Thansk in advance.
Regards,
chandra.

Hi, chandra.
As you know, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler(TWS) supports SAP R/3(Basis) jobs via the sub product known as "Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications"(It connects SAP system via RFC).
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/scheduler-apps/
And it also works for the XI(ABAP side) jobs of SM36.
So, in the following scenario,
R/3(ABAP Proxy) -> XI -> File Adapter -> B2B software to Partner
Tivoli can be used for controlling the following jobs centrally.
- kick R/3 job to run ABAP Proxy program
- run commands(scripts) to kick B2B software after file is written by F/A
Actually, in our project, we didn't need TWS to control XI jobs. We needed
R/3 side and the other end(both sides of XI but not XI itself).
But in your scenario, if you need to use XI jobs(defined in SM36), of course you can call those jobs directly via TWS(but please confirm with IBM that TWS supports WAS 6.40 with Unicode!).
i think this is why "technical feasibility of using IBM Tivoli as a Master scheduler for XI. Can we leverage Tivoli to schedule XI end to end jobs".
Best Regards.
p.s By the way, where did you find the above statement?

Hw to find total number of records

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3.what is sandbox,mirror sys,instance of a sys..?
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Hello Linda,
As you have lots of answers on first 2 so i'll start from 3rd onward.
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1.TWS- IBM Tivoli workload scheduler to call and execute ssis packages
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Hi SR_MCTS,
According to your description, a package that execute an exe file with Execute Process Task can be executed successfully without using TWS or the exe file stores in local path with TWS. While it fails when use TWS to execute the package with the exe file
stores in shared folder.
If in this scenario, it seems that the logon user that use TWS to execute the package has no access to the shared folder. We can logon as the relevant account or change some relevant settings on TWS to make sure the user has access to shared folder which
hosts the exe file.
Besides, since I’m not familiar with TWS, I’m not sure whether the issue is caused by there are some constraints in running the exe file from the shared folder through TWS. As to this issue about TWS, I suggest you post the question in the following forum:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000002658&tags=tws. It is appropriate and more experts will assist you.
Thank you for your understanding.
Regards,
Katherine Xiong
Katherine Xiong
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Problem in creating the ADODB.Connection object Error Number returned:-2147024770

Hi,
We are migrating our applications from Windows 2003 to 2008 application server. We have vbs script in a job which is invoked from Tivoli Workload Scheduler (Windows)/JOBLNCH 8.5.1. We are getting the error while creating ADOBD object (Error Number returned:-2147024770).
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Here is the code snippet used to create object.
set oSrcConnect = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
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Hi,
Error -2147024770 = hex 8007007E
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C:\>net helpmsg 126
The specified module could not be found.
This usually indicates that the COM object you're using is trying to load a DLL that is not installed.
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Trigger Process Chain Fails

Hi All,
We have a BI 3.5 System.We use the Maestro Background Job utility to fire background jobs in the SAP system including the process chain.
Of late, we have been experiencing problems wherein the process chain is not triggered automatically from the maestro application as scheduled.
It fails with the following error log in maestro :
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= USER      : master
= JCLFILE   : / -job DAILY_MASTER_CHAIN -i pchain_ -c C
= Job Number: 32179
= Thu 09/14/2006 04:00:17 AM PDT
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+++ IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications, method R3BATCH 8.2 (patchrev FP5 - 12:37:13 Mar 9 2005)
+++ is called with following parameters:
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+++ EEWO1027I RFC connection established (1)
[XALOG] - INFO: semaphore key=0xbd60228 (198574632)
Thu Sep 14 04:00:17 2006
ERROR 552 *** EEWO0552E The R/3 job scheduling system has found an
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ERROR 572 *** EEWO0572E Cannot start Process Chain.
===============================================================
= Exit Status           : 60
= System Time (Seconds) : 0     Elapsed Time (Minutes) : 0
= User Time (Seconds)   : 0
= Thu 09/14/2006 04:00:20 AM PDT
===============================================================
It dosen't throw any dump.In fact the BI_PROCESS_TRIGGER background job shows completed successfully in SM37.
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Thanks & Regards,
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Navin,
this can have several issues. Please verify the r3user profile in your BI system, the r3user which is defined in the r3batch options file. The SAP user must have the profile S_BI-WHM_RFC assigned, additionally to the access right definition explained in the Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications users guide.
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IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications Development

Authorization steps for 0plant

hi
for 0plant at rsa1 i check authorization relevant
next i went rsecadmin , created authorization relavent ( ztest)
i had taken 0plant an drestricted for 2 values and assigned 3 sap defined special characters
so now my ztest contain authorization relevent from rsecadmin for 0plant
now i went pfcg
now what are the steps i need to follow at PFCG

Do the following:
Write a name, for example ZTWS, in Role Name.
Click on Create Role and write a description for the role, such as "Role for the TWS user".
Save the role.
Select the Authorizations tab.
Click on Change Authorization Data.
In the ensuing pop-up select Templates.
Manually add the following authorization objects(depending on ue requirement): Object Description
S_ADMI_FCD System authorizations
S_BTCH_ADM Background processing: Background administrator
S_BTCH_JOB Background processing: Operations on background jobs
S_BTCH_NAM Background processing: Background user name
S_PROGRAM ABAP: Program run checks
S_RFC Authorization check for RFC access
S_SPO_ACT Spool: Actions
S_SPO_DEV Spool: Device authorizations
S_XMI_LOG Internal access authorizations for XMI log
S_XMI_PROD Auth. for external management interfaces (XMI)
Fill the values according to the following scheme: S_ADMI_FCD System authorizations
System administration function: Full authorization
S_BTCH_ADM Background processing: Background administrator
Background administrator ID: Full authorization
S_BTCH_JOB Background processing: Operations on background jobs
Job operations: Full authorization
Summary of jobs for a group: Full authorization
S_BTCH_NAM Background processing: Background user name
Background user name for authorization check: Full authorization
S_PROGRAM ABAP: Program run checks
User action ABAP/4 program: Full authorization
Authorization group ABAP/4 program: Full authorization
S_RFC Authorization check for RFC access
Activity: Full authorization
Name of RFC to be protected: Full authorization
Type of RFC object to be protected: Full authorization
S_SPO_ACT Spool: Actions
Authorization field for spool actions: Full authorization
Value for authorization check: Full authorization
S_SPO_DEV Spool: Device authorizations
Spool - Long device names: Full authorization
S_XMI_LOG Internal access authorizations for XMI log
Access method for XMI log: Full authorization
S_XMI_PROD Authorization for external management interfaces (XMI)
XMI logging - Company name: TIVOLI*
XMI logging - Program name: MAESTRO*
Interface ID: Full authorization
Save the authorizations.
Generate a profile. Use the same name you wrote in Role Name.
Exit the authorization management window and select the User tab.
Add the Tivoli Workload Scheduler user to the role.
Save the role.

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After upgrading our tools from 8.49 to 8.53, our IBM TWS Tivoli batch scheduling tool has stopped working. The information we have at this point from IBM is that PT 8.53 is not supported and the TWS psagent will NOT work with PT 8.53 (see end of this post for error logs from IBM TWS)
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We have already tried checking the jar version and it is what we are expecting it to be. 8.53.02. We have been working with Oracle support and below is one for their feedback and suggestion. we are working on implementing the work around but no success yet. Will keep you posted!
I am not surprise to hear that a third party software is NOT certified to run with PT 8.53 if they use CI java API. Main reason is PT 8.53 start to required JRE 1.7, PT 8.50-8.52 required JRE 1.6. So if a third party is still running on JRE 1.6, but not yet upgrade to JRE 1.7, then they would NOT be certified with PT 8.53. I guess that's probably why IBM said their TWS product does not support PT 8.53
If a third party can not upgrade their JRE, they won't be able to use the new psjoa.jar provided in PT 8.53, as that has been re-compiled for JRE 1.7. And they also can not use an old psjoa.jar from old tools, otherwise, will get the error as reported here.
There is a possible workaround for this, to let an old tools psjoa.jar be able to connect to the new tools release, for more details, please see below
PLEASE NOTE: the below workaround is provided AS IS, GSC does not support on any later issue raised by using an old version of psjoa.jar connecting to a new release of tools. So your 3rd party should upgrade their java to the certified java 7 release by PT 8.53. Also, note that there are other considerations, and the workaround will not work for some PeopleTools release combinations.
As a temporary workaround, you may try the following (example is shown for a scenario in which 3rd party application uses Java 6, and is trying to connect to a PeopleTools 8.53 system which requires Java 7):
Use the "old" working version of psjoa.jar (e.g. from PT 8.51 and above) from your 3rd party program that uses java 6
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NOTE: The location that pstools.properties is placed is important, and the location it needs to be placed in depends on the type of Java application, e.g. console program or web application, etc. You will likely need to test different locations to ensure it is being picked up by the 3rd party application at runtime.
Below the last line in the pstools.properties file add a new line with the exact PeopleTools release the application server is on. Below is a sample for pt 8.53.03.
tools_rel=8.53.03
Hope the above help, and clarify your issue.

How to find jobs that are scheduled.

I am providing backup DBA support for a dba who's out of the office.
There were jobs that were originally scheduled in cron that are no longer there.
I've looked in OEM to see if the jobs were moved and scheduled as events and don't see them.
I've also queried dba_jobs and all_jobs to see if I can find them. No luck.
I know the jobs are scheduled somewhere since they ran last night.
Does anyone have any suggestions on where else I might find these jobs?
Thanks in advance.

Just for future reference for anyone who may be in the same boat.
The backups I was trying to find are scheduled using Tivoli (TSM) scheduler. There's a text file that the scheduler picks up and reads, then within the AIX shell script is coded to the spcific days for the backups.
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I have deployed my SSIS packages on SQL 2008 server.
I have a .bat file which will invoke these packages and also the bat file is placed in the server where the SSIS packages are deployed.
Scenario 1:
I double clicked on the bat file to invoke the SSIS packages and ; this executed successfully
Scenario 2:
I have used the IBM Tivoli work scheduler(TWS) to invoke the bat file which in tern will invoke the ssis packges;
but when i do this i am getting the below error
Code: 0x8007007E
Source: SSIS_Master_Event_Data_Transfer Connection manager "Config DB"
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Dear All,
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Best Regards,
Ken

Hi Ken
In my understanding, BPM_DATA_COLLECTION* job is shared with multiple solution +
multiple objects. If multiple collection is allowed, there is possibility to use up all resource,
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Normally BPM_DATA_COLLECTION_1 run every 5 min, and in case of
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In your case, you mentioned due to long run of the job, you cannot get alert timely.
In this case, I would rather focus on the setting of your data collector
(which monitoring objects is configured) and performance of your data collector.
Do you know have any idea which data collector is configured and takes long ?
Normally people want to receive quick alert from interface fail or job fail (some job issue).
So for these monitoring objects, you may schedule monitor like every 15 min etc.
(But normally it may not take long. <Off course your DB size is so huge or having
lots of interface data in process, it may be different>.
Regarding on the document monitoring (through put / backlog monitoring), there is
possibility to take time (also depending on the size and also parameter you specify).
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you to review your scheduling settting
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PP document 3AM
SD document 2AM
MM document 4AM
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1447051 ST-A/PI 01L: Performance improvements for MM TBIs
1423722 ST-A/PI 01L: Performance improvements for LE TBIs etc.
1423721 ST-A/PI 01L: Performance improvements for SD TBIs
1321015 ST-A/PI 01L: IDoc Monitoring Corrections <=IDoc
if you uses ST-A/PI version L, please also check above notes.
if above information does not help you, also consider to request help to SAP support via customer message
under the component "SV-SMG-MON-BPM".
Best Regards
Keiji Mishima

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