Standard Universal Connector for SAP Job Definition File Syntax

The standard Universal Connector for SAP job is equivalent to defining a background job SAP via transaction SM36.

There are five types of statements used to define a standard USAP job:

1. Job Header statement
2. ABAP Step statement
3. Temporary Variant Content statement
4. External Step statement
5. External Command Step statement

A job definition requires a Job Header statement followed by one or more ABAP Step statements.

Statements are made up of keyword = value assignments and are terminated with a semi-colon ( ; ). Each statement type has a specific unique keyword that is required to start the keyword = value assignment list.

The following figure illustrates the syntax of a Universal Connector for SAP standard job definition.