In SAP systems, long-running transactions refer to business processes or activities that take a significant amount of time to complete. These transactions can have an impact on system performance and overall efficiency. If your SAP system is experiencing performance degradation, it may be due to the long-running job execution time that is caused by an expensive SQL statement. Other causes and side effects of long-running transactions can also show up in areas like waits, blocking, locks, memory bottlenecks, high process, and CPU utilization, and timeouts.
Create Override Threshold for long-running Background Activity
All that is needed to get started tracking expensive and long SAP SQL Statements is to define the recovery activity in the background job monitoring threshold override.
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Navigate to the IT-Conductor main menu → Support → Downloads and download and import the following IT-Conductor SAP Transport (v6.72 IT-Conductor Function Modules MS1K90492)
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After importing the role, you have to define the recovery activity that you want to monitor. In this case, let’s define a recovery activity for a background job
Navigate to Target System → Background jobs, then click on the Background jobs icon → Override
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