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Showing posts with label Background Jobs. Show all posts

SAP BW Background Jobs


In the Job log (SM37) you often see background jobs which have name that begin with 'BI'. The job name is typically generated, and has a format of BI followed by 25 or more characters.


BI_REQD
Example          BI_REQD3LC9UIZZBQU2G6SI6YE6PSHHB
Run by            The background RFC user
Purpose           Part of a data extract from the source system
                        On the source system you would see a job with a name of the format                     BIREQU... to accompany this data extraction job.

BIREQU
Example          BIREQU_3LC9OEL78TWUZEPQR97U7FBSV
Run by            An end user
Purpose           You can see this in the table RSREQICODS
                        This table is a monitor for the saving of the updated IC and ODS per                      request
                        The request number in this table is always REQU.
                        This job is a data load job from the ODS to a cube.

BI_BOOK
Example          BI_BOOK3LIC88JNNG7SEXZP36ZJTIFJM
Run by            The background RFC user
Purpose           Part of a data extract from the source system

BI_DELR
Example           
Run by            An end user
Purpose           This job deletes data from the ODS.

BI_ODSA
Example         
Run by            The background RFC user
Purpose

BI_NEW_
Example         
Run by            An end user
Purpose           This job is used to reconstruct a data target.

BI_COMP
Example         
Run by         An end user
This job is used to compress an InfoCube

BI_AGGR
Example         
Run by        An end user
Purpose      This job is used to roll-up an InfoCube

BI_STRU
Example         
Run by                       
Purpose      These are change runs