Users being able to Release their own jobs

[Former Member]

We have granted end users the ability to schedule and release their own jobs through S_BTCH_JOB RELE.   However, after:

1) Implementation of a note that adds a value of P to S_BTCH_ADM to prevent certain users from scheduling periodic jobs without going through our job scheduler

and

2) our internal control group going power hungry entering a ticket to remove S_BTCH_ADM with Y from certain roles

Our finance group has the lost the ability to start their month end job chains, which cannot be scheduled by our job scheduler as their is no rhyme, reason, or pattern to how or when they would be ready to release their jobs.  These jobs were scheduled by different people and one of the accounting managers had access to SM37 with S_BTCH_ADM to release their jobs when they were ready.

The problem I have been tasked with is to find a solution to allow the end users who create these jobs the ability to release their own jobs.  All users have access to SMX but unfortunately it looks like the SAP standard code for it greys out the release button.  Is there another transaction similar to SMX that would allow users to see and release their own jobs, is there a way to limit SM37 safely without causing controls or auditing to swoop down from their perches, or will basis need to release these jobs?   I am open to ideas here.

[shivraj_singh2]

Josh,

Please check the discussion Restrict periodic scheduling in SM37 , it is not exactly a solution for your problem, but there are some good ideas in the discussion. Also I am not sure if understand the scenario you have described, if the ends users have access to S_BTCH_JOB (RELE), what is preventing them from releasing their own jobs?

Regards,|
Shivraj Singh

[Former Member]

Thanks for the reply Shivraj, the problem we are facing is that Finance schedules their jobs and then comes back to release them when they are ready, sometimes this can be hours or days differences.  Yes they have the authorizations to do this BUT SMX and SMXX do not allow users to release their jobs (the release button is grayed out) AND I cannot safely give them SM37 due to no preventative measure on S_BTCH_ADM with a Y or * being added to any of their other roles.

[Colleen]

HI Josh

how complicated are they jobs? Could they just reschedule them to run. If they own the job they can have sm37 with release as they won't need the s_btch_adm authorisation.

if not, does your company have firefighter to grant temporary access?

finally, can it just be a business process where finance calls basis to request job release when they are ready? Treat it as a planned service?

regards

Colleen