SAP job fails intermittently with R/3 Code: E;066, may result in duplicate submission (WA Agent)

Products

• CA Workload Automation DE - Business Agents (dSeries)

Issue/Introduction

Users may see SAP R/3 job fail and on resubmission it may start again.

Environment

Release : 12.0

Component : Workload Automation AE Agent for SAP

Cause

The WA agent log may show errors like these:

2022XXXX 000012345+0400 LKO WA_AGENT 1234.123456_1/WAAE_WF0.1/MAIN STATE FAILED Cmpc(1001) Jobno(012345LU) Status(Job Open: Error) LStatus("Failed to start defined job. R/3 Code: E;066;Immediate start not currently possible") SetEnd  Plugin(sap) User(WA_AGENT) Host(host.example.com)

 

Resolution

Please check on the SAP is running out of background processes.  The "R/3 Code: E;066" is reported by SAP to the agent.