Author: saptechnicalguru

SIC: Online Simplification Item Check

SAP has an online simplification item check available. This can be used for both a conversion to S4HANA as well as an upgrade of S4HANA to a higher version.

The readiness check inside the system focuses on data used and on mandatory items.

The online check also gives information on changes and potential new features you can use.

Online simplification item check

The online simplification item check can be found here. On the screen select your target version:

Here we simply take the highest version: S4HANA 2023. A new screen comes where you can select the source version and details of the feature pack of the target:

Click on Go to get the result list:

This check does not replace the mandatory readiness check inside the system. It can help you to prepare in planning phase of an upgrade.

SAP Readiness Check for SAP ERP Usage and Data Profiling

To prepare for an S4HANA migration, you can use the SAP Readiness Check for SAP ERP Usage and Data Profiling. This analysis will provide data insights in your current ERP system usage.

Tool installation and run

The tool can be installed by applying OSS note 3112362 – SAP Readiness Check for SAP ERP Usage and Data Profiling. Transport this note to your productive system. The tool needs to have the actual production data. Start program RC_UDP_COLLECT_ANALYSIS_DATA:

Start with the Schedule Analysis. A batch job will collect the data. Once done, you can use the Display Analysis Data button to see the results. The Download Analysis Data allows you to download the data. The data needs to be uploaded to the SAP Readiness site.

Tool result

After uploading to the SAP readiness site, give SAP about one hour to process the data.

Then the analysis result is available:

From left to right:

  • Detailed data profiles
  • Module based data profiles
  • Top list of data volumes

Zoom in on the module based data profiles:

For each part, you can now drill down to table level:

This way you can see if a certain S4HANA change will have much impact or not (due to amount of records).

SUIM_CHDOC_USER: new transaction to show user changes

In SUIM there is a function to show changes for users, but this transaction can be performing very poor with higher data volumes.

SAP has developed successor transaction SUIM_CHDOC_USER that is giving the same data, but faster.

How to get transaction SUIM_CHDOC_USER?

It is import to know transaction SUIM_CHDOC_USER only works on HANA database. If you are not running on HANA, don’t continue.

Implementation steps:

  1. Apply OSS note 3399100 – SUIM | change history calculation for user/profile assignment
  2. Apply OSS note 3418682 – SUIM_CHDOC_USER | Implementation prerequisite for SAP Note 3405921. Run the generation program.
  3. Apply OSS note 3405921 – SUIM | Read Change Documents for User. Important here: do execute the manual steps here first. These final steps are NOT covered in the previous note.

Transaction SUIM_CHDOC_USER

Now you can start transaction SUIM_CHDOC_USER:

Input is the same as you were used to. Output as well. The new transaction is simply faster.

PFCGMASSDELETE: mass deletion of roles

To get the function for mass role deletion, you first need to apply OSS note 3360981 – PFCGMASSDELETE: Mass deletion of roles.

Mass deletion of roles

After the note is applied transaction code PFCGMASSDELETE can be started:

The I information button provides the description of the functions of the program:

The SCC4 functions are described in OSS note 1723881 – Application of client-specific customizing settings to role maintenance.

ABAPDOCU: online ABAP documentation

All ABAP documentation is online available in your ABAP system. Start transaction ABAPDOCU:

The most used function is the traditional ABAP keyword documentation.

But the ABAPDOCU is constantly updated and also contains great background information on:

  • CDS views
  • Restful Application Programming model (RAP)
  • Security in ABAP
  • Cloud rules for ABAP
  • Release notes for ABAP releases
  • ABAP examples
  • Tools for ABAP programming

OSS notes

SAP IGS (internet graphics server)

SAP IGS is a built in graphics server for ABAP.

To determine the version of IGS running start transaction SIGS (or run program GRAPHICS_IGS_ADMIN):

Press execute:

The RFC itself can be tested in SM59 with connection IGS_RFC_DEST.

Background OSS note: 995471 – IGS administration via ABAP.

Graphics test program

To test the graphics start program BW_IGS_CHART_TEST. Output should be:

SQVI: quick viewer

SQVI is a tool to quickly build ad-hoc queries.

Start transaction SQVI:

Enter a QuikView name and press create. Now choose the type (in this case we will make a table join):

First add the table:

And add the second table:

The join between the tables is in this simple cases created automatically. In more complex cases you have to define the join conditions yourself.

Press the back button to go back.

Now enter the output fields:

And the selection fields:

Save the SQVI query.

Now you can start to Execute the query:

Enter the input criteria and press execute to get the wanted results:

Bug fix OSS notes

Bug fix OSS notes for SQVI:

Set up AIF interface error handling

SAP has a nice framework to handle interface errors: AIF (application integration framework).

The framework is quite old already but was not very popular. Not to the fact that it is not good (it is in fact quite good), but it is because it is a licensed product and too expensive for the value it brings.

The framework is now split into 2 parts:

  • Use in combination with standard SAP scenarios (in this case the use of AIF is free)
  • Use in combination with your own custom flows (in this case you need to pay for the AIF license)

Activating AIF error handling content

For reference you can read the formal help file from SAP on activating AIF content.

Extract the content using SE38 report /AIF/CONTENT_EXTRACT.

Then start transaction /AIF/CUST to maintain the customizing for errors. The input is given on this SAP help page.


And define the error handling levels:

Use of AIF

Transaction /AIF/ERR can be used for the error handling monitoring:

Activate change documents for classification

SAP generates a lot of change documents for a lot of objects. Unfortunately for classification (for example for materials), this is not enabled by default.

The procedure to activate change documents for classification is described in OSS note 1705101 – How to Activate Classification Change Documents.

First you need to run program RCCLUKA2 as described in OSS note 942691 – Information about using RCCLUKA2. Depending on the amount of records this program runs minutes to several hours.

Program RCCLUKA2 convert the key of the classification. Any custom code reading KSSK and AUSP directly might need to be updated!

Once the program is done, you can use transaction O1CL to activate the change documents:

In the material master classification screen the menu option Environment/Change Documents is now enabled and will show the changes to classification done:

SAP Focused Run real user monitoring (RUM) overview

This blog will explain the technical activation and usage of RUM (real user monitoring) in SAP Focused Run.

Basic activation of RUM

First go to the Fiori settings tile:

If the RUM function is not active yet, activate it and Save:

Now go to the FRUN backend ABAP system and start transaction STC01 and select task list SAP_FRUN_SETUP_USECASE and variant SAP&FRUN_AUM (advanced user monitoring):

In the task list setup also select the batch jobs:

Now run the task list. This should not take longer than 1 minute. Result green is ok:

Technical activation of RUM per managed system

Per system for which you want to activate the RUM function proceed as follows:

Go to the SSI Fiori tile:

Select the system:

Now press the Configure manually button and new screen opens:

On top first select Step 2 for Execute configuration. And select the Configure Real user monitoring step. Press the Execute Selected button and wait for the log to show success:

Alternatively you can also do the SSI completely new on the first screen by selecting the Configure Automatically button.

Background: RUM is an intense function. If it is not active, the agent does not have to do anything. The re-do of the SSI is needed to tell the agent on the system to start sending RUM data once it is activated in FRUN configuration.

With this step the managed system is prepared.

Functionality activation of RUM per managed system

Now we can go to the RUM Fiori tile:

After scope selection nothing is active yet:

On top right choose the Configuration button and start with the housekeeping settings:

WARNING: RUM can use a lot of data in your database. It can also consume a lot of your Focused Run licensing. If you use too much; reduce amount of systems for which you activate RUM and reduce the retention periods in the screen above. See blog on Focused Run license measurement.

Go to the Systems section and toggle the Activation for the system to On:

Wait for the configuration and data collection to happen. Take 5 to 10 minutes patience for this step.

After the step, refresh the screen and it should look like this:

Data should appear on the left. On top, select the icon Data Quality. This shows the data collection status per host. The icon will be red at start and turn green after 30 minutes.

Using Real User Monitoring: request tool

Now the setup is done, we can start to use the tool. The main screen is the requests tool:

From the start screen you can zoom into the task type you are interested in. As example we zoom in to the task type Dialog:

Drill down all the way:

Here you can see for which user and when the action was done. Unfortunately the action description is pretty technical: action 2000 in transaction CJ8G still might leave you a bit puzzled.

Using Real User Monitoring: cards tool

The second tool is the cards tool:

Here the entry point is the task type or trend in card format.

Using Real User Monitoring: front end tool

The front end tool gives an overview of front end response times and on clients used on your system:

Using Real User Monitoring: back end tool

The back end tool gives an overview of the back end performance and distribution of the response times:

Using Real User Monitoring: hot request tool

The hot request tool gives a cross section for high usage and performance.

If a part is used more, the block size is larger. In this caser, zooming in on the less used red part might be useful. But is it also interesting to analyze the large used orange blocks, since a lot of users are impacted.

Using Real User Monitoring: 24 hour profile

The 24 hour profile tool can be used to see if there are hours of the day where performance is worse than others. Some might be expected. But also: you might want to put in extra capacity to deal with peak loads. Or schedule some intense batch jobs at different times.

Using Real User Monitoring: topology

The topology tool can help you to analyze where data flow to and from your system are running and with which performance quality:

Using Real User Monitoring: execution flow

In some cases a specific user is complaining about poor performance. You can use the execution flow tool to filter on a specific user ID. After opening the tool, press the filter button to detail the user ID:

More tools

RUM has many more tools. Just explore the menu on the left side if another tool is useful for your situation.