NO START AFTER won't work for periodic Jobs

[Nibu]

Hi All ,

Its quite surprising for me , so am sharing this,  you can take care of this in future .  This issue with the background job scheduling of ABAP systems .

The Phrase NO START AFTER won't work for periodic jobs 

I will explain with a simple eg:

I am Scheduling a backgound Job in my  SAP Dev System

So , I have given as follows: Schedule Start 13:30:00 and No Start After 14:00:00

I made it as a periodic job as below

The program running is RSCOLL00 , just for testing

So the Job is schedules and released . As per the above logic , the job should run from 13:30:00 to 14:00:00 (Half an Hr) , so 6 times it should run . surprisingly , it is still getting released after 14:00:00, even we give " NO START AFTER 14:00:00

At 14:00:00 ,the NO START AFTER time is getting increased automatically  as below.

So take care on "NO START AFTER" in Background job scheduling for periodic jobs . I don't understand why there is no  condition checking implemented to check the end date of the job even if it is a periodic one .