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Internal Provider Billing
Uploading With Background Processing: Option II

Contents
Overview
Find Your Background Job
View Results of Your Job

Overview

The following instructions assume you selected Processing in Background, a likely choice for users uploading large files. If you want to use Processing Immediately, proceed to Upload with Immediate Processing. The instructions and results are somewhat different.

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Find Your Background Job

After you have submitted an upload job to run in the background, you can check the results as follows:

1. Follow the menu path System>>Services>>Jobs>>Job overview or type in the transaction code /nsm37 from any screen.

Result: The "Simple Job Selection" screen is displayed.

screen capture:  Simple Job Selection screen

2. Enter the following fields.

Field Name

Description

Job Name
(required)

Enter the job number you obtained from the "Background Processing" window described earlier.

Note

If you don't know the job number, leave the asterisk (*) in the Job name field. The system will list all the jobs processed by you between the dates specified in the "Start date" window of this screen. If no dates are entered, the system lists all jobs associated with the specified userid.

User name
(required)

Defaults to your userid.

Job Status
(required)

You can select any of these criteria to further limit the jobs that should be displayed. If selected, SAP displays jobs:

Sched.

Job is defined but not yet eligible to run

Released

Job will be started as soon as the start conditions are met

Ready

Job is ready to start; the start conditions have been fulfilled

Active

Job is actively running and cannot be deleted

Finished

All job steps have been successfully completed

Canceled

Cancelled due to internal process processing problems

Job start condition
(optional)

Leave blank if you entered a job number in the Job Name field. Otherwise, enter the date you uploaded the file in the Fr and To fields. You can use the Matchcode button to select a date. You can also select the time by clicking on the Matchcode button to the left of the clock icon.

Job step
(optional)

Enter the name of ABAP program that was processed in the background system.

3. (optional) If you want more selection options, click on the Extended job selection button on the Toolbar.

4. Click the Execute button Execute button .

Result: The "Job Overview" screen appears, displaying the job number for either the number you entered, or all job numbers based on the selection criteria you specified. The fourth column, Status, displays Finished if the job is completed.

screen capture:  Job oveview

Note

Click the Refresh button Refresh button to see the current status of your job if it takes a long time to process.

5. Click to the left of your job name.

6. Click the Spool button on top.

Result: The "Output Controller: List of Spool Requests" screen appears.

screen capture:  List of Spool Requests

7. Click in the box to the left of the spool number.

8. Click the Display Results button Display Results button.

Result: The "Graphical display of spool request . . . " screen is displayed. (It looks the same as the JV for Internal Providers Billing screen after you upload the file for immediate processing.) Scroll to the bottom to see the results of your job.

screen capture:  Graphical display of spool request

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View Results of Your Job

>>Go to Uploading for Immediate Processing: View Results of Your Job (Pre-validation Only) or

>>Go to Uploading for Immediate Processing: View Results of Your Job (Pre-validation and Posting)

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