Diagnosis
When you determine the start date of a job, you can also specify apreceeding job that will be started when this job ends. The start datecan be dependent on the scheduling status of its predecessor - that is,the job is only started when its predecessor is scheduled correctly, oris started regardless of the scheduling status of the predecessor job.
This messages means that this job is only be started when thepredecessor job runs properly. The predecessor job did not runerror-free, however, and this job could not be started as a result.

System Response
The job whose predecessor job ended with an error is no longer startedor executed. Instead, it is set to status "Cancelled", and thismessage is written to the job log.
If this job itself has successor jobs, these are started afterwards.The system acts as if a job was terminated due to error.

Procedure
There are several ways to react to this error message:

• The present status-specific predecessor/successor relationship may not
be entirely necessary in this case. If this is the case, thejob can be started regardless of the status of its predecessor.

• If the predecessor/successor relationship cannot be changed, you must
analyze and correct the reason for the termination for the successorjob to run properly in future. Refer to the job log of the predecessorjob and, possibly, the general SAP system log.