SAP Note 18391 - Reports with authorization groups in jobs

Symptom:

When you schedule a report (that has been assigned an authorization group in the report attributes) in a job using transaction SM36, function module JOB_SUBMIT, or ABAP language element SUBMIT VIA JOB, the system issues an error message that states that the user is not authorized to schedule the report as a job. This message also appears in Syslog with the designation "EG1".

Other terms

P_ACTION, P_GROUP.

Reason and Prerequisites

There is an authorization problem.

Solution
When you assign an authorization group to a report, the user, who wants to perform the report in the background, must have the following authorizations for authorization object "ABAP program flow checks" (S_PROGRAM):

- User action = BTCSUBMIT
- Authorization group = Name of the authorization group that was specified in the report attributes