​Using Workload Automation integrated with SAP®, you can create, schedule, and control SAP jobs and monitoring you SAP landscape.
 
SAP jobs run on application servers that host work processes of type batch. Critical batch jobs are run in specific time frames, on specific application servers. With SAP Basis version 6.10 and later, application servers can be assigned to server groups. With Workload Automation, you can assign a server group to a job and leveraging the Job Throttling feature it can manages all SAP background processes from several applications on one or more servers in heterogeneous environments. In this way, when a job is launched, the SAP system runs it on an application server that belongs to the specified group, balancing the workload among the various application servers.
 

Event Rules are an extension of Workload Automation (WA) capabilities that enable events occurring external to the scheduling environment to trigger actions on scheduling objects within WA.  An ideal use of this capability is to detect the arrival of a file and then trigger an action to submit a Job Stream containing jobs to process the data contained in that file.  This capability has been available for a while and is widely used.  In this article, a hidden feature is explored where the name of the file and other properties related to the file are passed as variables to a Variable Table associated to the Job Stream being submitted as ac action where any Job within that Job Stream can retrieve those variables and process the data in the file. ​

SAP systems include the basic security measures of SAP authorization and user authentication by password. This blog explains how to use Secure Network Connection (SNC) to extend SAP system security beyond these basic measures to include the additional protection of stronger authentication methods and encryption. This blog explains connectivity mechanisms provided by Workload Automation for SAP Software to establish a secure connection via SNC to SAP.
 
Workload Automation does not provide or ship SNC software, it enables to use 3rd party SNC products to secure the RFC communication.

Waiting for a file to arrive before a job can start processing it is the most common and quintessential requirement for any workload automation tool.  Historically, this was done by creating a File dependency using OPENS and Unix tricks to manage wild cards and multiple matching files.  Then Event Driven Workload Automation was introduced where an Event Rule could monitor a file with wild cards and when the condition was satisfied the dependent Job Stream was submitted.  With the advent of the Start Condition feature introduced in version 9.4 Fix Pack 1, the event rule file monitor capability is integrated into a Job Stream using the utility, filemonitor.  Another important aspect of this requirement is to pass the name of the matching file to another job in the workflow to process the data contained in the file.   ​

​Let us begin with understanding of Google Cloud Storage what it is all about before moving to our GCP CloudStorage plugin and how it is benefits to our workload automation users.
 
Cloud Storage is a service for storing your objects in Google Cloud. An object is an immutable piece of data consisting of a file of any format. You store objects in containers called buckets.

​​Let us begin with understanding of Automation Anywhere what it is all about before moving to our Automation Anywhere Bot Runner and Bot Trader plugin and how it is benefits to our workload automation users.

Customers using Oracle Human Resources Cloud face the challenge of continuous bulk loading of large amounts of data at regular intervals. Oracle Human Resources Cloud provides the tools like HCM Data Loader which address this business use case. Now you can automate data loading into Oracle Human Resources cloud using the Oracle UCM and Oracle HCM Data Loader plugins which leverage the HCM Data Loader for the Workload automationusers.
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​"You may not be responsible for the situation you are in, but you will become responsible if you do nothing to change it." Cit. Martin Luther King
 
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