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In this post let us see how we can write a parallel processing report. I
explained here and the code is at end of the post.
The usual way of programming is serial processing. The program
executes one line at a time and if you call a function that will wait until
the control returns from the function and executes the rest of the code.
In some case you might be calling the same function again and again
for different set of master data. You know that there wont be any
conflict between the data and you would like to execute the same
function multiple times with different set of data. We need to do this
in parallel processing this way the process will be completed much
faster with multiple processes in different servers. Let us see how we
can achieve this with an example.
Let us assume that we have 1 million BP and we need to check some
condition and set a value Y or N according to that condition and this
code is in a Z function which get input of 1000 BP at a time. Let write a
program which can execute the same function multiple time until the
process is ready.
I created a report in SE38 with name as Z_TEST_PARALLEL .
First we need to get the number of max resources available and
number of resources free using the following sap standard function.
Only initialize only once and next times use the
SPBT_GET_CURR_RESOURCE_INFO function to get the available
resources.
SAP Function SPBT_INITIALIZE
This will give you the information that we need to do the parallel
processing. Now loop thru the data and gather the information that

you want to process let us say like 1000 bp at a time and execute the z
function with 1000 bp at a time. once you reached the max number of
resource you need to wait until some resource is available and if the
resource is available then continue and wait until all the process is
completed.
You have to call the function not using the regular call but using the
new task call. See the following
CALL FUNCTION Z***(your function name)
STARTING NEW TASK taskname
DESTINATION IN GROUP srv_grp
PERFORMING return_back_this_task
ON END OF TASK
EXPORTING
..
TABLES
.
EXCEPTIONS
resource_failure = 1
system_failure
=2
communication_failure = 3
OTHERS
= 4.
The above function is called in the new task which
process in a separate session. You call the above function multiple
times with 1000 records at a time and wait for the process to be
completed. On each task is completed the return_back_this_task
perform is executed and the result will be received from that task.
Once all the results are collected the process will be completed and the
control will return back to the main program. See the following sample
code for parallel processing.