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XBP 2.0 and XBP 3.0 Certification ready SAP introduced a certification catalog for the new XBP 3.0 interface. With Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications 8.6, we are now ready to run thru the certification test with SAP. The following certification test scenarios are subject of the certification:  BC-XBP 6.10 (V2.0)  BC-XBP 7.00 (V3.0) To fulfill the XBP 3.0 certification, Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications 8.6 was enhanced with the following capabilities:  SAP Criteria Manager Functions (Full interface coverage & UI support) Incl. new Picklist function for SAP Events  SAP Application Log & Application Return code (Full coverage) Incl. RCCONDSUCC return code mapping  Download spool list content on demand by users (Full coverage & UI support)  SAP Variant maintenance using simplified XBP 3.0 function module

XBP 2.0 and XBP 3.0 Certification ready SAP XBP 3.0 Interface improvements and corrections are opened by Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications 8.6 development team and assigned to SAP. Good partner relationship helped to improve the XBP 3.0 interface as follows:  Modify Job Header, Job Class missing (SAP Note )  Modify Job Header, Server Group update fails (SAP Ticket open, target within Sprint 4)  Modify SAP Variant, Variant Type missing (SAP Note )  Modify SAP Variant, Variant Attributes overwritten (SAP Note )

Criteria Manager The TDWC provides a web-interface to list, create, mantain and activate SAP Criteria Profiles

Criteria selection TWS connects to SAP server and shows the criteria profiles already created. A menu bar helps the user in maintaining objects.

Actions and Display on Criteria Profiles User easily selects action on object and by clicking, the definition is displayed.

Edit Criterion

Event Interception and Relaunch Criteria On Interception Event type, a Job Relaunch Criteria is made available. This allows the user to define the policy for release intercepted job, through TWS control.

Define Relaunch policy The Job Relaunch Criteria allows the user to let TWS schedule the intercepted jobs, extending to XBP3.0 the same TWS feature already available in XBP 2.0 configuration. By scheduling this Job Collector, TWS will release all the intercepted SAP jobs that satisfy the Relaunch Criteria given that profile ID.

Modeling TWS for SAP jobs on Z/OS from TDWC TDWC allows now also TWS user for zOS to define and mantain TWS for SAP jobs: R/3 jobs, Process Chain and infoPackage, same as the Distributed capabilities.

Display a Process Chain

Restart a Process Chain Four TWS actions are available on a selected process chain.

Creating a SAP job from TDWC TDWC allows now the user to define a SAP connection and to start creating new SAP job Within the TWS console.

SAP job modeling by selection User can design a SAP job in the same way it uses to do on SAP GUI. ABAP list selection, External Command and External Program are supported.

Single-click TWS-SAP integration Once the new SAP job is created from TDWC, the user in a single click can link it to a new TWS for SAP job definition.

List of Spool Requests Up until Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications V8.5, the only option you had to check the spool request of an R/3 job was through its job log  Performance degradation during job log retrieval for very huge spool request  Some difficulties to identify, navigate, analyze the spool request of a particular r3 job step Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications V8.6 enables you to browse the spool request of a job more easily  A new Dynamic Workload Console action is provided for executed Standard R/3 Job in the “Monitor Jobs” task, a “Show Spool List” action has been added to the “More Actions” pull-down menu  A list of Spool Request details is shown for every step in the R/3 job  Each Spool Request can be analyzed separately  A set of pages is loaded when a Spool Request is analyzed  You can navigate among a set of pages, go directly to the last or first set of pages

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Application Job Log  In the Job definition window the user can enables the retrieval and appending of the SAP application log to the Job log of Tivoli Workload Scheduler.

Application Job Log

Application Return Code  In the Job definition window the user can enables or disables the mapping of the SAP application return code to the Tivoli Workload Scheduler return code. If the SAP job contains several steps, it takes the greater RC code from the step list

Application Return Code

Support SAP Secure Network Communication (SNC) SAP offers a software layer to integrate security products at application level. With SNC, you can secure an RFC connection between communication partners like Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications access method and the SAP System.  Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications 8.6 was extended to read SNC configuration parameters and forward them to the SAP RFC communication layer used during logon to the SAP system.  Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications 8.6 does not provide or ship SNC software, it enables to use 3 rd party SNC products to secure the RFC communication. The following new options are added to the workstations options file:  r3sncmodeenable / disable SNC for RFC  r3sncpartnernametarget SAP Systems SNC name  r3snclibfull path and filename to the 3 rd party SNC library  r3sncqopquality of protection  r3sncmynameown (local) SNC name

FIPS Compliance Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) is a U.S. government computer security standard used to accredit cryptographic modules. FIPS accreditation is required for for cryptographic modules produced by private sector vendors who seek to have their products certified for use in government departments and regulated industries. - new parameter use_fips that enables r3batch to use FIPS compliant algorithm for password encryption - enigma tool now is using FIPS compliant algorithms for password encryption - network communication between r3evmon and TWS engine now supports encryption mechanism with OPENSSL and FIPS compliant libraries (gskit version 8) Implementation

SAP PI Channel TWS provides also a Job Executor Plugin to pilot SAP PI channel status.

TDWC Job Plugin PI Channel The TWS Job log contains also the job details about execution and actual status.

SAP Temporary Variant The temporary variant is created for the job and deleted once the job has finished The temporary variant lifecycle is managed by SAP Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications V8.6 and DWC V8.6 FP1 enable you to define/assign/modify a temporary variant through the dynamic R/3 job definition (task string)

SAP Temporary Variant cont. Examples 1. A temporary variant is created using the information indicated in the expression The following example shows how you can create a temporary variant with the information specified in the expression and assign it to step 2 -vpar2 =... –vsel2... –vtemp2 2. Assign a temporary variant to the specified step number The following example shows how you can assign a variant to step number 1. The temporary variant must exist -v1 -vtemp1 3. The value for a temporary variant that already exists is substituted with the value indicated in the expression The following example shows how you can substitute the value of a temporary variant that must already exist with a value specified in the expression and assign it to step 5. The temporary variant must exist, otherwise, the expression returns an error. -v5 -vpar5 =... –vsel5... –vtemp5

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Improve r3batch performance Introduction of the rfc_interval keyword in the R/3 common options file to optimize performance:  When operating through the DWC Browsing for and selecting SAP jobs from a list Editing SAP jobs Raising/managing SAP events Managing SAP Criteria Profiles  During SAP job submission and tracking Using the default value for the option, performance has been optimized by 50% for the above operations and for SAP jobs with a short duration. Decreasing the value for the option, the performance could be higher but CPU consumption on the r3batch system is high. If you experience performance or CPU consumption issues, you may try to change the value accordingly

Keep SAP jobID synchronized Using the Dynamic Workload Console, you can define a Tivoli Workload Scheduler job that runs a SAP job. The SAP job can already exist in the SAP System or can be created as new job using the DWC In previous releases if the user edited the SAP job modifying either the Target Host, the job class or adding or deleting steps the JobID was automatically replaced forcing the user to manually update all jobstreams containg the modified SAP job With the new Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications V8.6 release, for any SAP job modifications, the JobID remains unchanged maintaining the synchronization with the job in the SAP System

Keep SAP jobID synchronized In the new Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications V8.6 release, for any change the Job ID remains unchanged. In this way the User is not forced to modify any jobstream after a SAP job modifications