Executing Program in Background:

ALV Grid Output Program - Output

in Background for a
Report/Program

Applies to:
This document applies to SAP ECC 6.0, SAP Netweaver 2004s. Visit the ABAP homepage.

Summary
This document depicts the execution of the report or program in a background and viewing its output. This
method is important once you want to execute a heavy report in terms of processing so better to put it on the
server rather than your machine and continue with the other work.
As well configuring the Spool attributes accordingly for your report or program and provide ease of accessing
the import reports of transactions. Feel free to share this document to all freshers and beginners in SAP
technology.
Author:

Gaurav Patwari

Company: Torrent Power Ltd.

Created on: 30 September 2009

Author Bio
By education I am B.E. Information Technology, I am working as a Chief SAP ABAP
Developer & SAP XI Consultant as well as SAP HCM Functional team member with Torrent
Power Ltd. Indias one of the best Power Industry. My current technical work includes
development with following ABAP, ABAP HR, ABAP Objects, Smartforms, BDC, BAPI, SAP
Enterprise Portal, SAP Web dynepro for Java and developing various SAP XI scenarios for
3rd party system.

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Table of Contents
Executing Program in Background Having ALV Grid as Output ........................................................................ 3
1.

Enter Report Transaction Code ............................................................................................................... 3

2.

Enter the selection criteria in the selection screen .................................................................................. 3

3.

Normal Output of your Report .................................................................................................................. 4

4.

Enter Your Report T-Code Again............................................................................................................. 4

5.

The Background Print Parameters .......................................................................................................... 5

6.

Spool Request Attributes ......................................................................................................................... 6

7.

Note Down the Job Name ........................................................................................................................ 8

8.

SM37 - Simple Job Selection ................................................................................................................... 8

9.

Execute for Your job ................................................................................................................................ 9

10. Check Status of your Job. ........................................................................................................................ 9

11. Click on ABAP List ................................................................................................................................. 10
12. Output of Job on Execution Completion ................................................................................................ 10
Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 11
Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 12

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Executing Program in Background Having ALV Grid as Output

1. Enter Report Transaction Code
Enter the transaction code for which you wanna run the report.

2. Enter the selection criteria in the selection screen

Provide all the inputs

Execute normally and check the outputs.

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3. Normal Output of your Report

Check the Output for the report.

Now suppose it takes longer time for the execution and want to check the output for the same. So what we
can do is we can run in the background.
How will the output displayed in background? Check it out, how's it possible?
4. Enter Your Report T-Code Again
Provide the inputs for the selection screen and go to Program menu -> Click on Execute in Background

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5. The Background Print Parameters

The Background print parameters dialog box appears. Click on properties button to set spool request.

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6. Spool Request Attributes

Expand the Spool request from the Spool request attributes dialog box and click on the spool request name,
double click it. Then to finish click on

button

Click to continue.

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9. Schedule the job.

Click on
and the above screen will change to below shown screen, then click on
will be scheduled on name of the program.

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7. Note Down the Job Name

Above show message will be displayed.

8. SM37 - Simple Job Selection

Go to transaction SM37, below show screen will be displayed.

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9. Execute for Your job

Simple Job selection screen will be shown as shown in figure below, click on

10. Check Status of your Job.

Check for your report in the below listed screen and check for the job status as finished, once job is finished
to check for output click on

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as show in the screen below.

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11. Click on ABAP List

Click on the icon show in the below figure to view the output for your report.

12. Output of Job on Execution Completion

You will see the output as shown below it will be a basic list only whatever your output format is will be
converted to basic list output as show in below figure.

Note: For, comparing two report output you can compare the Figure of step 15 with Step 4.

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Related Content
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1459737
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=721393
Displaying ALV Grid in Background Job
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=138471
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=132190
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=95088
For more information, visit the ABAP homepage.

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Disclaimer and Liability Notice

This document may discuss sample coding or other information that does not include SAP official interfaces and therefore is not
supported by SAP. Changes made based on this information are not supported and can be overwritten during an upgrade.
SAP will not be held liable for any damages caused by using or misusing the information, code or methods suggested in this document,
and anyone using these methods does so at his/her own risk.
SAP offers no guarantees and assumes no responsibility or liability of any type with respect to the content of this technical article or
code sample, including any liability resulting from incompatibility between the content within this document and the materials and
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