C-LANG Statements › CHILDMONITOR Statement—Specify Whether to Monitor Children Jobs (SAP Jobs)

CHILDMONITOR Statement—Specify Whether to Monitor Children Jobs (SAP Jobs)

The CHILDMONITOR statement specifies whether to monitor children jobs. Children jobs are jobs spawned by a parent job.

Supported Job Types

This statement is optional for the following job types:

• SAP Data Archiving
• SAP Job Copy
• SAP R/3

Syntax

This statement has the following format:

CHILDMONITOR Y|N

Y

Monitors the job's children.

N

Does not monitor the job's children.

Notes:

• Your agent administrator can specify a default setting for all applicable SAP jobs by setting the sap.job.children.monitor parameter in the agentparm.txt file of the agent.
• The CHILDMONITOR statement overrides the default setting specified in the sap.job.children.monitor parameter in the agentparm.txt file of the agent.
• The CHILDMONITOR statement is ignored when Y or N is omitted.

Example: Monitor Children Jobs

This example monitors the children spawned by the job:

SAPJOBNAME SAPTEST
AGENT SAPHTAGENT
CHILDMONITOR Y
ABAPNAME ZCHILDJOB1