psdalb
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How do I include a variable date in a background job?
Hello Experts,
I am new to SAP and just starting to create background jobs to run overnight for our SD department. Daily we run a report off of VA05 and send the results to the respective salesman of orders placed in their respective areas. I can run the jobs in the background and have them emailed to the salesmen. However, I can not get the date to change to "yesterday's" date.
I would think there is an easy way to enter in a variable (eg yesterday() ), and have it work off of the system date.
Any help would be appreciated.
Pat
I am new to SAP and just starting to create background jobs to run overnight for our SD department. Daily we run a report off of VA05 and send the results to the respective salesman of orders placed in their respective areas. I can run the jobs in the background and have them emailed to the salesmen. However, I can not get the date to change to "yesterday's" date.
I would think there is an easy way to enter in a variable (eg yesterday() ), and have it work off of the system date.
Any help would be appreciated.
Pat
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Thanks for the quick response.
Very new to this, so I am confused by the "tools".
What I would like to do is run VA05 (List of Sales Reports) as a background job at night. I am having trouble runing the job, as well as creating a variable that will calculate "yesterday's date".
Very new to this, so I am confused by the "tools".
What I would like to do is run VA05 (List of Sales Reports) as a background job at night. I am having trouble runing the job, as well as creating a variable that will calculate "yesterday's date".
ASKER
I meant "List of Sales Orders"
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Ok, this is the SAP main program not one of the SAP business objects or Crystal tools.
I don't know that SAP program.
mlmcc
I don't know that SAP program.
mlmcc
ASKER
Thanks for the effort. I have been playing around and now see how I can set up dynamic dates in the varients. Seem to work for everything but VA05. Getting close.
Hi psdalb,
as I know this cant be done by default SAP.
I know that external sceduling tools like UC4, BMC Control-M or Redwood could do something like that, but you dont want to pay for these tools just for just one job.
You could create a report which calles the VA05 report (SAPMV75A) and passes the wanted values to it, that what I would try.
Best regards,
gnurl
as I know this cant be done by default SAP.
I know that external sceduling tools like UC4, BMC Control-M or Redwood could do something like that, but you dont want to pay for these tools just for just one job.
You could create a report which calles the VA05 report (SAPMV75A) and passes the wanted values to it, that what I would try.
Best regards,
gnurl
By the way,
in ABAP date is stored in the system variables
SY-DATLO
User’s local date, for example 19981129, 19990628, …
and
SY-DATUM
Current application server date, for example 19981130, 19990627, …
but you can't use these variables in variants, only in ABAP programs...
gnurl
in ABAP date is stored in the system variables
SY-DATLO
User’s local date, for example 19981129, 19990628, …
and
SY-DATUM
Current application server date, for example 19981130, 19990627, …
but you can't use these variables in variants, only in ABAP programs...
gnurl
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Super Help. Unfortunately what I wanted to do isn't possible, but the alternate solutions and explanations go a long way to solving this, as well as solving other issues.
Please see here. You need to use "Current date +/- ??? days."
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp1/helpdata/en/c0/98039be58611d194cc00a0c94260a5/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp1/helpdata/en/c0/98039be58611d194cc00a0c94260a5/frameset.htm
mlmcc