Triggering background jobs

Question

What is the best solution to trigger background jobs within user exits?
Currently the method I am using is quite cumbersome.
1. Create user event in SM62
2. Create background job attached to this user event.
3. Within user exit call function module BP_EVENT_RAISE using user event.
The problem I have with this approach is that in the program I have to add a 15 - 20 sec delay to handle record locking. Lets say I am in a user exit in MM02, triggering this event without the delay can lead to no records been processed.
What are other ways of implementing this solution?
Can I do a SUBMIT report VIA JOB
or CALL FUNCTION IN UPDATE TASK.

Answer 1

Try this way also.
In the userexit update a custom table with document number + flag (pending for process)
Create standalone program that to be scheduled like every 5 minutes (as you like ) search for this table and get all open documents (with flag eq space ) and process one by one.( Calling jobs)
This will reduced number of repetative background jobs
Say User A edit document 100 at 10.00 am and saves at 10.01 am and user B edit document 100 at 10.02 am and save it
10.03 am ( so every save if you trigger a backgound job, unncessary create jobs for same document number 10 )
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