SAP ABAP Data Element BTCSTAT (Status of background job)

Hierarchy

☛ SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   ⤷ BC-CCM-BTC (Application Component) Background Processing
     ⤷ SBTI (Package) User Interface and Job-API of Background Processing

Basic Data

Data Element	BTCSTAT
Short Description	Status of background job

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type		Direct Type Entry
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	12
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	12
Value Table

Further Characteristics

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Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	6	Status
Medium	10	Status
Long	15	Status
Heading	12	Status

Documentation

Definition

Possible statuses are:

• Released: Job is fully defined and released
• Ready: Job is ready for execution
• Active: Job is running
• Finished: Job finished as defined
• Canceled: Job canceled by the system or the administrator

The overview includes all jobs with status "Released", "Ready", "Active", "Finished", or "Canceled".

For "Finished" and "Canceled" jobs, the overview only includes the latest of each.

Supplementary Documentation - BTCSTATUS 0000

Use

Procedure

Examples

Dependencies

Supplementary Documentation - BTCSTATUS 0001

Procedure

Mark the statuses that you wish to include in the overview.

The statuses have the following meanings:

• Scheduled: not yet been released to run.
• Released: released to run.
• Ready: start date and time have come: awaiting execution.
• Active: currently running.

  After a system failure, can indicate that a job was interrupted by the failure and must be manually restarted.

• Finished: successfully completed.
• Aborted: not successfully completed.

Examples

Dependencies

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20010130
SAP Release Created in