How to schedule a Report in background?
There are 3 ways to schedule in background:
SM36
SE38
SA38
The easiest of the three is SA38.
Why background? In foreground jobs are only allowed a certain amount of runtime. Long
running jobs usually times out in foreground, and have to be run background. Some customers
has day-end jobs to fill custom tables, and these only run late at night, so they are
scheduled as background jobs as well. There may be any of a hundred reasons why you want a
job to run in background instead of foreground, and these are only 2 of them.
