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SIOS LifeKeeper for High Availability of SAP ASCS /ERS HA and HANA Database on Azure

2024-10-07T09:12:26.327000+02:00

Introduction

SAP HANA is a high-performance in-memory database that supports real-time analytics and transactions. It is widely used by enterprises to run their critical business applications and processes. However, SAP HANA systems also require high availability and disaster recovery solutions to ensure business continuity and data protection in case of failures or disasters.

Azure is a cloud platform that offers a range of services and features to host, manage, and scale SAP HANA systems. Azure provides high-performance virtual machines, storage, networking, and security options that can meet the requirements of SAP HANA workloads. However, Azure does not offer a native high availability solution for SAP HANA systems, which means that customers need to use third-party tools or custom scripts to achieve high availability for their SAP HANA databases on Azure.

SIOS LifeKeeper is a proven high availability and disaster recovery solution that can protect SAP HANA systems on Azure. SIOS LifeKeeper can monitor, detect, and recover from failures of SAP HANA instances, virtual machines, storage, network, or Azure services. SIOS LifeKeeper can also replicate data between primary and secondary SAP HANA systems, and perform automatic or manual failover and failback operations. SIOS LifeKeeper can integrate with Azure services such as Azure Load Balancer, Azure Traffic Manager, and Azure Site Recovery to provide a comprehensive and reliable high availability solution for SAP HANA systems on Azure.

Prerequisites

Before you can configure and deploy a highly available SAP HANA system on Azure using SIOS LifeKeeper, you need to have the following prerequisites:

An Azure subscription and an Azure account with sufficient permissions to create and manage resources.
A SAP HANA license and installation media.
A SIOS LifeKeeper license and installation media.
Two or more Azure virtual machines that meet the SAP HANA hardware and software requirements. You can use the Azure Marketplace to create SAP HANA certified virtual machines.
A shared storage solution that supports SAP HANA data and log volumes. You can use Azure NetApp Files, Azure Files, or Azure Shared Disks as shared storage options.
A network solution that allows communication between the SAP HANA systems and the SIOS LifeKeeper nodes. You can use Azure Virtual Network, Azure VPN Gateway, or Azure ExpressRoute as network options.
A load balancer solution that can distribute traffic to the SAP HANA systems and the SIOS LifeKeeper nodes. You can use Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, or Azure Traffic Manager as load balancer options.

Configuration Steps

After you have prepared the prerequisites, you can follow these steps to configure and deploy a highly available SAP HANA system on Azure using SIOS LifeKeeper:

Install SAP HANA on the primary virtual machine and configure the SAP HANA data and log volumes on the shared storage.
Install SAP ASCS on the primary virtual machine and SAP ERS on Secondary Virtual Machine and /sapmnt on the shared storage.
Install SIOS LifeKeeper on the primary virtual machine and join it to a SIOS LifeKeeper cluster.
Create a SIOS LifeKeeper SAP HANA resource hierarchy on the primary virtual machine and configure the SAP HANA instance details and the shared storage paths.
Install SAP HANA on the secondary virtual machine and configure the SAP HANA data and log volumes on the shared storage.
Install SIOS LifeKeeper on the secondary virtual machine and join it to the same SIOS LifeKeeper cluster as the primary virtual machine.
Extend the SIOS LifeKeeper SAP HANA resource hierarchy from the primary virtual machine to the secondary virtual machine and configure the replication mode and the failover policies.
Configure the load balancer to direct traffic to the SAP HANA systems and the SIOS LifeKeeper nodes.
Test the high availability and disaster recovery scenarios by simulating failures and verifying the failover and failback operations.

Architecture Design

SIOSLV-RG

IP address Assignmnet

Component	West US 2	IP-ADDRESS
VNET	vnet-sioslv-westus2	10.3.0.0/16
Snet-app-sioswestus2	snet-app-siosz1-westus2	10.3.0.0/24
Snet-hdb-sios-westus2	snet-app-siosz2-westus2	10.3.1.0/24
s4hdiagsios
Azure File share (NFS 4.1)	s4hsiosnfstest
AzureFirewallSubnet	AzureFirewallSubnet
AzureBastionSubnet	AzureBastionSubnet	10.3.2.0/26
Azure File share nfs4.1	s4hsiosfsdiag
ASCS Cluster Node1	vmslvascs1	10.3.0.4
ASCS Cluster Node2	vmslvascs2	10.3.0.5
Witnesss server for SAP in Zone3	vmslvwit1	10.3.0.6
SAP PAS	vmslvpas	10.3.0.7
VIP-SAP DB	S4sascs s4sers	10.3.0.20 10.3.0.21
VIP-HANA DB	sioshdb-lb	10.3.1.10
HANA DB Cluster Node 1	vmslvhdb1	10.3.1.4
HANA DB Cluster Node 2	vmslvhdb2	10.3.1.5

Created sioslv-rg

Created VNET/SN

SUSE SLES for SAP Applications 15 SP5 with 24x7

Installation of HANA DB on node1 and node2

Please perform the same for Node2

Download the software

Download lkwmc

./setup

Install licenskey

We don’t need to select Likekeeper startup

Setup failed due to

Mistped the location of licensekey

Now perform the same step on VM2

vmslvhdb2:/misc/SIOS-9.8.1/siossoft981 # mount /misc/SIOS-9.8.1/sps.img /misc/SIOS-9.8.1/siossoft981 -t iso9660 -o loop

vmslvhdb2:/misc/SIOS-9.8.1/siossoft981 # suseconnect -p sle-module-legacy/15.5/x86_64

Registering system to registration proxy https://smt-azure.susecloud.net

Updating system details on https://smt-azure.susecloud.net ...

Activating sle-module-legacy 15.5 x86_64 ...

-> Adding service to system ...

-> Installing release package ...

Successfully registered system

Install LKWMC

WITNESS SERVER

Pre-requisite :

vi /etc/default/LifeKeeper

NOBCASTPING=1

Now browse the LKWMC via link below for

vmslvhdb1:/misc/SIOS-9.8.1/lkwmc/sios-lkwmc-1.1.0 # /opt/LifeKeeper/bin/lcdstatus -q

LifeKeeper does not appear to be running.

vmslvhdb1:/misc/SIOS-9.8.1/lkwmc/sios-lkwmc-1.1.0 # ./lkstart

-bash: ./lkstart: No such file or directory

vmslvhdb1:/misc/SIOS-9.8.1/lkwmc/sios-lkwmc-1.1.0 # /opt/LifeKeeper/bin/lkstart

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/lifekeeper-graphical.target.requires/lifekeeper.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/lifekeeper.service.

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/lifekeeper-multi-user.target.requires/lifekeeper.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/lifekeeper.service.

vmslvhdb1:/misc/SIOS-9.8.1/lkwmc/sios-lkwmc-1.1.0 #

Broadcast message from systemd-journald@vmslvhdb1 (Thu 2024-04-11 19:00:22 UTC):

lcdinit[5788]: EMERG:lcd.lcdchkseml:::011138:The LifeKeeper product on this system is using an evaluation license key which will expire at midnight on 05/11/24. To continue functioning beyond that time, a permanent license key must be obtained.

vmslvhdb1:/misc/SIOS-9.8.1/lkwmc/sios-lkwmc-1.1.0 # /opt/LifeKeeper/bin/lcdstatus -q

LOCAL TAG ID STATE PRIO PRIMARY

vmslvhdb1:/misc/SIOS-9.8.1/lkwmc/sios-lkwmc-1.1.0 #

Now lauch the LKWCM again

To connect to the LifeKeeper Web Management Console from a web browser:

https://vmslvhdb1:5110

Create communication between all systems

Click add new server to add vmslvhdb2

Click create another communication path to Witness server

Create communication between vmslvhdb2 to vmslvwit1

Click on Resource tree for creating the resource IP

Click extend

Click to create the resource for – LB health checkup

click Extend

Before creating the below resource enable HSR

Take Backup of SYSTEMDB and TENANT DB on both nodes

Copy the below ssfs files to secondary HDB

s4sadm@vmslvhdb1:/usr/sap/S4S/SYS/global/security/rsecssfs> ls

data key

s4sadm@vmslvhdb1:/usr/sap/S4S/SYS/global/security/rsecssfs> scp -rp /usr/sap/S4S/SYS/global/security/rsecssfs/* s4sadm@vmslvhdb2:/usr/sap/S4S/SYS/global/security/rsecssfs/

s4sadm@vmslvhdb2's password:

SSFS_S4S.DAT 100% 2960 855.0KB/s 00:00

SSFS_S4S.KEY 100% 187 127.9KB/s 00:00

Now lets create the HANA resource – lets start the HANA system on both system

Now enable the replication between them

s4sadm@vmslvhdb1:/usr/sap/S4S/home> hdbnsutil -sr_enable --name=s4sz1

nameserver is active, proceeding ...

successfully enabled system as system replication source site

done.

s4sadm@vmslvhdb1:/usr/sap/S4S/home>

hdbnsutil -sr_register --remoteHost=vmslvhdb1 --remoteInstance=00 --replicationMode=syncmem --operationMode=logreplay --name=s4sz2 –online

Creating SAP HANA resource

Click Close

Failover test on HANA DB.

Trying the takeover by rightclick on standby – in sync resource

Current status

SIOS cluster will detect and start it and reregister it as secondary

Failback

Now lets work on SAP ASCS / ERS

NFS shares

/sapmnt

/ASCS00

/ERS01

/SYS

Local

/usr/sap

Goto SAP system and mount them

sudo mkdir -p /usr/sap/S4S/ascs00

sudo mount -t nfs siossapnfs.file.core.windows.net:/siossapnfs/ascs00 /usr/sap/S4S/ascs00 -o vers=4,minorversion=1,sec=sys,nconnect=4

sudo mkdir -p /usr/sap/S4S/ers01

sudo mount -t nfs siossapnfs.file.core.windows.net:/siossapnfs/ers01 /usr/sap/S4S/ers01 -o vers=4,minorversion=1,sec=sys,nconnect=4

sudo mkdir -p /sapmnt/S4S

sudo mount -t nfs siossapnfs.file.core.windows.net:/siossapnfs/sapmnt /sapmnt -o vers=4,minorversion=1,sec=sys,nconnect=4

sudo mkdir -p /usr/sap/S4S/sys

sudo mount -t nfs siossapnfs.file.core.windows.net:/siossapnfs/sys / -o vers=4,minorversion=1,sec=sys,nconnect=4

Lets mount and install SIOS

Pre-requisite

vmslvascs1:~ # suseconnect -p sle-module-legacy/15.5/x86_64

Registering system to registration proxy https://smt-azure.susecloud.net

Updating system details on https://smt-azure.susecloud.net ...

Activating sle-module-legacy 15.5 x86_64 ...

-> Adding service to system ...

-> Installing release package ...

Successfully registered system

vmslvascs1:/misc/SIOS-9.8.1 # ls

lkwmc siossoft981 sps.img

vmslvascs1:/misc/SIOS-9.8.1/siossoft981 # mount /misc/SIOS-9.8.1/sps.img /misc/SIOS-9.8.1/siossoft981 -t iso9660 -o loop

mount: /misc/SIOS-9.8.1/siossoft981: WARNING: source write-protected, mounted read-only.

vmslvascs1:/misc/SIOS-9.8.1/siossoft981 # ./setup

Lets install LKGUI

To connect to the LifeKeeper Web Management Console from a web browser:

https://vmslvascs1:5110

vmslvascs1:/misc/SIOS-9.8.1/lkwmc/sios-lkwmc-1.1.0 # /opt/LifeKeeper/bin/lcdstatus -q

LOCAL TAG ID STATE PRIO PRIMARY

Now perform the same vmslvascs2

Lets perform LKGUI

To connect to the LifeKeeper Web Management Console from a web browser:

https://vmslvascs2:5110

Now lets launch the LK wmc and setup communication between resources and create LB

Click communication path and under operations – create communication path

Click ADD A NEW SERVER

It will ask for login info of vmslvascs2

Now create another communication between

Vmslvascs1àvmslvascs2 -- Done

Vmslvascs1àvmslvwit1

Vmslvascs2 à vmslvwit1

Now lest create the resources

LB Health Checkup

SAP

10.3.0.20

Click Extend

Click Close

Lets add ERS IP

Click Close

Now lets add LB Health Check for SAPASCS / SAPERS

Now perform for vmslvascs2 from vmslvascs1

Now install SAP ASCS

Ping virtual ips

10.3.0.20 s4sascs

10.3.0.21 s4sers

vmslvascs1:/misc/s4hana2023-includesall/SWPM # ping -a 10.3.0.20

PING 10.3.0.20 (10.3.0.20) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 10.3.0.20: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.034 ms

64 bytes from 10.3.0.20: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.033 ms

./sapinst SAPINST_USE_HOSTNAME=s4sascs

ERS on node2

vmslvascs2:/misc/s4hana2023-includesall/SWPM # ./sapinst SAPINST_USE_HOSTNAME=s4sers

[==============================] | extracting... done!

INFO: Native locale set to C.UTF-8

INFO 2024-04-22 21:44:45.283 (mainThread) [sixxcreate.cpp:349]

********************************************************************************

Initial log directory: /root/.sapinst/vmslvascs2/13944

********************************************************************************

WARNING 2024-04-22 21:44:45.284 (root/root) (startInstallation) [syxxcnwmgt.cpp:61] id=syslib.network.overriddenHostName void CSyNetworkMgtImpl::overrideHostName(const iastring & "

https://vmslvascs2:4237/sapinst/docs/index.html

/usr/sap/S4S/SYS

Installing PAS

vmslvpas:/usr/sap/s4hana2023-includesall/SWPM # ./sapinst

Now install PAS on same server

Creating a HA cluster for your SAP ASCS/ERS servers in AWS - Google Docs

Copy the sapservices file between node1 and node2

vmslvascs2:/opt/LifeKeeper/bin # more /usr/sap/sapservices

systemctl --no-ask-password start SAPS4S_01 # sapstartsrv pf=/usr/sap/S4S/SYS/profile/S4S_ERS01_s4sers

systemctl --no-ask-password start SAPS4S_00 # sapstartsrv pf=/usr/sap/S4S/SYS/profile/S4S_ASCS00_s4sascs

Also perform below - Verify that the rules for both your ASCS and ERS instances are in the /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ directory. If not copy the ERS file to the ASCS server and vice versa:

Make sure you copy the files between system

/etc/systemd/system/

SAPS4S_00.service

SAPS4S_00.service.d

SAPS4S_01.service

SAPS4S_01.service.d

Lets create the SAP resource for ASCS/ERS on SIOS

Now create ERS resource

Create dependency

SAP as parent resource

Child as VIP

Child as LBHC

Confirm

===Now for SAP ERS resource

Lets delete the old license

vmslvascs2:/opt/LifeKeeper/bin # cd /var/LifeKeeper/license/

vmslvascs2:/var/LifeKeeper/license # ls

20240422.lic 20240429.lic

vmslvascs2:/var/LifeKeeper/license # ls -ltr

total 16

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6121 Apr 22 15:19 20240422.lic

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6121 Apr 29 14:02 20240429.lic

vmslvascs2:/var/LifeKeeper/license # rm 20240422.lic

Lest crash the node1

vmslvascs1:/etc/systemd/system # echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger

Node1 is hanging

ASCS moved to Node2 and the locks are still there and SAP is able to connect with out any issue.

After few seconds the VM1 did not come up and we see the ERS is failing over to Node1

Restarted the VM manually –once the VM is up and running

SIOS will automatically move the ERS to another node , I see the status as below

Manually switchover the ASCS to Node1

Rightclick and make it as in service

Done Tests are successful.

SAP JAVA - How Memory allocation works here?, How Garbage Collection helps?, print memhist screen

2024-11-01T12:18:00.599000+01:00

Context: A job failed in the system --> and I can see some Allocation Failure logs at that time, check below screenshot what is there in the log

J 5106135.671: [GC (Allocation Failure) 5106135.671: [ParNewJ

: 6473015K->163897K(7340032K), 0.3083848 secs] 17449842K->11141057K(24117248K), 0.3087756 secs] [Times: user=0.21 sys=0.00 real=0.31 secs]

5107049.163: [GC (Allocation Failure) 5107049.164: [ParNewJ

: 5962034K->71890K(7340032K), 5.4469845 secs] 16939193K->13683627K(24117248K), 5.4474075 secs] [Times: user=4.22 sys=0.01 real=5.45 secs]
J 5107054.650: [GC CMS Initial Mark[1 CMS-initial-mark: 13611736K(16777216K)] 15000842K(24117248K), 0.0449463 secs] [Times: user=0.08 sys=0.00 real=0.05 secs]

J 5107054.695: [CMS-concurrent-mark-start]

J 5107055.731: [CMS-concurrent-mark: 0.840/1.036 secs] [Times: user=0.38 sys=0.00 real=1.03 secs]
J 5107055.731: [CMS-concurrent-preclean-start]
J 5107055.769: [CMS-concurrent-preclean: 0.038/0.039 secs] [Times: user=0.01 sys=0.00 real=0.04 secs]
J 5107055.771: [CMS-concurrent-abortable-preclean-start]

J CMS: abort preclean due to time 5107060.902: [CMS-concurrent-abortable-preclean: 4.609/5.132 secs] [Times: user=1.49 sys=0.01 real=5.13 secs]

J 5107060.903: [GC CMS Final Remark[YG occupancy: 2792157 K (7340032 K)]5107060.904: [Rescan (parallel) , 0.0458228 secs]5107060.949: [weak refs processing, 0.0259838 secs]5107060.980: [class unloading
, 0.3621919 secs]5107061.342: [scrub symbol tableJ

, 0.1064461 secs]5107061.449: [scrub string table, 0.0072483 secs][1 CMS-remark: 13611736K(16777216K)] 16403894K(24117248K), 0.5528646 secs] [Times: user=0.20 sys=0.01 real=0.56 secs]

J 5107062.078: [CMS-concurrent-sweep: 0.586/0.621 secs] [Times: user=0.30 sys=0.00 real=0.62 secs]
J 5107062.078: [CMS-concurrent-reset-start]
J 5107062.085: [CMS-concurrent-reset: 0.007/0.008 secs] [Times: user=0.00 sys=0.00 real=0.01 secs]

Let's Understand what is happening in this above log.

This issue is related to the Garbage Collection (GC) process, specifically due to CMS (Concurrent Mark-Sweep) Garbage Collection and allocation failures. This often happens when the JVM is unable to allocate enough memory in the Young Generation (ParNew) or Old Generation (CMS) because the memory has become fragmented or too full to handle the request efficiently.

GC (Allocation Failure) in ParNew:
- In your logs, the GC (Allocation Failure) happens several times:
  - ParNew is triggered (Young Generation GC), which occurs when the JVM cannot allocate memory for new objects in the Young Generation.
    
    [GC (Allocation Failure) 5106135.671: [ParNewJ 6473015K->163897K(7340032K), 0.3083848 secs] 17449842K->11141057K(24117248K), 0.3087756 secs]
  - This log shows that the Young Generation was full, leading to a GC event. After GC, 6473015K (roughly 6.17 GB) of data was reduced to 163897K (~160 MB), which means most of the objects were cleared out, but this took time.
  - The overall heap usage was reduced from 17.4 GB to 11.1 GB, leaving about 6 GB in the Old Generation.
CMS Garbage Collection in the Old Generation:
- The CMS (Concurrent Mark-Sweep) GC is also triggered for the Old Generation:
  
  [GC CMS Initial Mark[1 CMS-initial-mark: 13611736K(16777216K)] 15000842K(24117248K), 0.0449463 secs]
  - Here, we see the CMS GC marking phase starts, and it reports 13.6 GB of the Old Generation (out of 16 GB) is in use.
  - CMS is a non-compacting collector, which means it doesn't reorganize memory, leading to memory fragmentation. Over time, even though there may be free memory available in the Old Generation, fragmentation can prevent the JVM from allocating large contiguous memory blocks.
Long GC Pauses and Concurrent GC Phases:
- We observe long GC times:
  - One GC event took 5.44 seconds:
    
    5962034K->71890K(7340032K), 5.4469845 secs] 16939193K->13683627K(24117248K), 5.4474075 secs
  - This long pause indicates that garbage collection is struggling to free memory, which could be due to a large number of objects being tenured (moved to Old Generation) or due to fragmentation.

Why is the Job Failing?

Even though the total heap space seems adequate, the following issues are contributing to the failure:

Fragmentation in the Old Generation (CMS Collector):
- CMS is prone to fragmentation because it doesn’t compact memory. If there is fragmentation in the Old Generation, the JVM may not be able to find a contiguous block of memory large enough to allocate new objects, even though the total available memory seems sufficient.
- When CMS cannot allocate memory in the Old Generation due to fragmentation, the JVM will trigger GC (Allocation Failure) events, and eventually, if the job needs a large contiguous block of memory, it will fail.
High Old Generation Usage:
- In the logs, we see the Old Generation usage grows to about 13.6 GB (out of 16 GB). While there’s technically 2.4 GB of free space, fragmentation might prevent the JVM from allocating that space efficiently.
Young Generation Full:
- The Young Generation (ParNew) is constantly reaching its capacity, triggering GC. This indicates the application is creating many short-lived objects that the JVM struggles to process in a timely manner.
Full GC and Long Pauses:
- The CMS GC is leading to long GC pause times (5.44 seconds, 5.13 seconds). These long GC pauses indicate that the JVM is spending significant time in garbage collection and is struggling to free up space.
Concurrent Mark-Sweep Phases:
- CMS phases like Initial Mark, Concurrent Mark, Preclean, Sweep are happening continuously, which suggests high memory churn. If these phases are interrupted or fail to clear enough space, the JVM won’t have enough available memory to allocate new objects for your job.

Then to get more details of memory issue, you can use jvmmon tool -- I have used

command: print memhist, and below is the screen from that, let's check what is in this screen?

Breakdown of the JVM Metrics:

1. heap-comm and heap-used:

heap-comm (Committed Heap): This is the total amount of memory reserved (or committed) for the Java heap. In this case, it shows 23.0g (23 GB), meaning the JVM has reserved 23 GB of memory for the heap.
heap-used (Used Heap): This represents the amount of memory actually being used in the heap. It is shown as 10.9g (10.9 GB), meaning 10.9 GB of the 23 GB heap is currently in use.

2. meta-comm and meta-used:

meta-comm (Committed MetaSpace): The MetaSpace is an area of memory used by the JVM to store class metadata (class definitions, methods, etc.). This value represents how much MetaSpace has been reserved. It shows 938m (938 MB).
meta-used (Used MetaSpace): This is the amount of memory actually being used in MetaSpace. It's listed as 674m (674 MB), meaning that 674 MB of the 938 MB committed space is being used.

3. meta-csc and meta-csu:

meta-csc (Class Space Committed): This represents the memory committed for storing class metadata specifically for the classes loaded by the JVM. In this case, it's 117m (117 MB).
meta-csu (Class Space Used): This is the amount of that space actually being used by loaded classes. The value is 71m (71 MB), meaning that 71 MB out of the 117 MB committed class space is currently in use.

4. meta-gctr (GC Threshold):

meta-gctr: This represents the GC threshold for the MetaSpace. It's the point at which a garbage collection (GC) will be triggered to reclaim unused class metadata. In your case, the value is 1.6g (1.6 GB). This means that when MetaSpace usage approaches this value, the JVM may trigger GC to free up unused class metadata.

5. code (Code Cache):

code (Code Cache Committed): The Code Cache is a special region where the JVM stores compiled native code generated by the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler. This value represents how much space is reserved for the code cache. In this case, it's 230m (230 MB).

6. nmt-mlc, nmt-map, nmt-gc, nmt-oth, nmt-ovh:

These values relate to Native Memory Tracking (NMT), a diagnostic feature of the JVM used to track memory allocation outside the Java heap.
- nmt-mlc: Memory allocated via the malloc function by the HotSpot JVM.
- nmt-map: Memory allocated by memory-mapped files (mmap).
- nmt-gc: Memory allocated due to GC overhead (malloc and mmap) by the JVM.
- nmt-oth: Memory allocations that are categorized as "other" (such as direct byte buffers or unsafe memory allocations).
- nmt-ovh: NMT tracking overhead.
These fields are only populated when NMT is active, but they are not shown in this log excerpt.

7. jthr-num and jthr-nd:

jthr-num (Number of Java Threads): The total number of active threads in the JVM, including both daemon and non-daemon threads. It shows 391 threads in this case.
jthr-nd (Non-Daemon Threads): The number of non-daemon threads (i.e., threads that prevent the JVM from shutting down when they are running). In your data, this is 341.

8. jthr-cr (Threads Created):

jthr-cr (Threads Created [delta]): The number of threads created since the last measurement (delta means the change in value between two data points). In this snapshot, it is 0, meaning no new threads were created since the last check.

9. jthr-st (Thread Stack Reserved):

jthr-st: This refers to the total reserved size of Java thread stacks, which is not shown here as the [nmt] section is inactive.

10. cldg-num and cldg-anon:

cldg-num (Classloader Data Number): The number of ClassLoader Data instances in the JVM. This value indicates how many class loaders are actively managing classes. It's not displayed in this log snippet.
cldg-anon (Anonymous ClassLoader Data): The number of anonymous class loader data instances. These are typically used for dynamically generated classes.

11. cls-num, cls-ld, cls-uld:

cls-num (Classes Loaded): The total number of classes currently loaded by the JVM, including instance and array classes. In this log, the value is 103,686.
cls-ld (Classes Loaded [delta]): The number of new classes loaded since the last measurement. In this case, it is 0.
cls-uld (Classes Unloaded [delta]): The number of classes unloaded since the last measurement. It is also 0, indicating no classes were unloaded.

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RISE with SAP , S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition, (btw - if you don't have time to read this then just click that link and read all the links in there) is re-writing the book on how companies "do" SAP, and in fact, everybody on that journey or planning for or preparing for that journey is re-writing the book.

The blog, the toolbox covers pretty much _all_ aspects of the SAP Private Cloud Edition (s) journey, all Phases, and across all technologies and everything that will be touched and goes deep in to the SAP Basis Administration tasks for setting up and establishing and operational readiness of SAP Private Cloud systems and the BTP and everything around it. The blog is updated on a daily basis, I use it as my own Toolbox and if it helps others then that's great. The subject is so big that it spilled over in to the comments. The goal is one page so that it can be searched with CTRL-F. If you need something and cannot find it, then write in the comments what you are looking for or send me a DM and I will show you where it is and if I don't know somebody else will.

The interesting thing is, as we move towards 2026, the move to S/4HANA is no longer only about S/4HANA Private (or Public) Cloud Edition or S/4HANA Cloud Private or RISE or whatever you call it, the move to S/4 has turned into a modernisation of the whole IT Platform.

Look at this presentation of "Transition to S/4HANA" from 2017.....

The Path to S/4HANA: Transition Scenarios and Best Practices

Back then, we were only thinking about the "upgrade to S/4HANA", back then in 2017 the SAP Cloud Platform, now the SAP BTP Business Technology Platform was in its infancy and basically only SAP Cloud Platform Integration and Mobile Services.

Now, let's say 9 years later, coming in to 2026, the move to S/4 is triggering a modernisation (or transformation) of the whole IT Stack/.Tool Set, the S/4 as the Core and everything around it from Data (Master Data), Integration (APIs/Events), Security (System/BTP Hardening, E2E Integration, Users RnA, Provisioning), Extension/Custom Development (Clean Core), Monitoring, User Experience, Reporting & Analytics, Operations, Organisation, and of course Innovation, where innovation is lead by AI in all of its forms.

And it's not only the S/4HANA on RISE anymore, it's all of the OnPremise Editions moving to RISE Private Cloud Editions, not many years ago we were unsure of the future of products like SAP GRC AC and now we can see that SAP GRC2026 is coming and that will have the same end of life as the S/4HANA, currently 2040, and where will we be running that, as a Private Cloud Edition on RISE ECS. And it's the same for the rest of the products like GTS, ATTP etc, if their end of life is 2040 then they will be moving to PCE RISE ECS.

And what about the BW's ? Our legacy BW's BW on HANA, BW/4HANA are going to move to the BDC Business Data Cloud as PCE Private Cloud Editions on BDC. And so, this subject is evolving before our eyes. This is interesting, BW's are not going to RISE ECS Private Cloud, they are going to BDC Private Cloud.

What we are part of is, in my opinion, is a once in a generation, once in a lifetime technology change and learning opportunity.

And so this blog, is here to help me, and others, across the holistic subject of SAP modernisation. There is so much to learn, so many new things, and the majority of it is on this page. The page is updated on a daily basis with everything new that I touch are learn.

So let's get in to it...

There are so many myths and misunderstandings about RISE, hopefully this work will shine more light on the subject.

The goal of this work is to provide a SAP S/4 RISE & BTP "1 Pager" for all of us Customer/System Integrator side folks who are on this journey.

This is where you are coming from and going to as a SAP Customer and as an Individual...

The SAP Business Suite Advantage https://dam.sap.com/mac/app/p/pdf/asset/preview/mEz8n1W?h=&ltr=a

For me, there are at least five high level dimensions to this S/4 RISE BTP journey:

SAP Next Generation ERP - Getting to S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition

SAP Managed Cloud Infrastructure - Getting running on SAP RISE

SAP Cloud Enterprise Applications - Getting the BTP

SAP Customer Organisational Change - SAP North Star Architecture

SAP AI & Intelligent Technologies & Automation & New Innovations & RoadMap Opportunities - get them as soon as possible across all dimensions - functions - units - domains - processes

All five of the dimensions, and more, are covered in this 1 pager.

Moving quickly from those five high level dimensions and down in to the lower level engine room impact of the S/4HANA RISE BTP journey, it must be clearly understood, that, an S/4HANA RISE Program is actually all of this and more....

a Project Management / Program Management Transformation - the program is huge and has a specific proven approach, Activate, which people need to learn

a Data Transformation - the Data is changing, and the structures

a Process Transformation - processes are changing

a Technical Basis Transformation - Basis technologies are changing and how you do Basis

an Integration Transformation - integrations (API Events) and the tools (Broker) are changing

a Hosting Transformation - hosting is changing

a User Experience Transformation - User Experience and User Interfacee is changing

an Operations Transformation - how you do Operations is changing

a Security Transformation - Security is changing, eg how to secure end to end API integrations across Authentication and Authorisation at all layers

a Monitoring Transformation - monitoring is changing

a Tools Transformation - the tools you use are changing

a Custom Development (Extensions) Transformation - how you do extensions and where is changing

an Organisational Transformation (whether you like it or not) - your organisation will have to change, the old set up will be inefficient

a Roles & Responsibilities Transformation - roles will change

a People Transformation - people will need new skills

a Testing Transformation - there will be so much testing required - end to end

a New Technology Transformation - there will be so much new tech starting with Joule....

a to-be-architecture Legacy System transformation - as in legacy which remains as transition or part of the to-be will need to adapt

How to solve that ?

The very first thing to do is read and digest SAP's 10 Underlying Quality Principles.

Implementing and Migrating to and Running S/4 PCE on RISE for the last three years, there is so much to learn and the SAP technology is changing faster these days than I have seen in my whole career, there is so much to keep up with, and similarly for the BTP, having been doing BTP (or as it was the SAP Cloud Platform) for 7 years, the BTP is moving very fast, new Services, existing Services evolving.

The two subjects are combined, SAP S/4HANA PCE on RISE with BTP, because in my eyes the two go hand in hand, S/4HANA PCE on RISE is the next generation of the previous On-Premise ERP offerings from SAP, and the BTP contains the next generation of Applications which we will all use with the S/4HANA PCE on RISE.

And then, since we are on this RISE journey, we are going to need to change our SAP CoE organisation, the existing SAP CoE setup will not be optimal for working with RISE/ECS, and so there's a section on SAP Organisational Change Management, SAP Center of Excellence, and SAP North Star Architecture.

The SAP North Star Architecture Service will safe guard the whole journey, from evaluation to run and everything in between, if you have the money, it's a must have, on the other hand, can you afford to go on the S/4 RISE BTP journey and not invest in safe guarding with the SAP North Star Architecture Service ?

And then, the final section is lessons learned :-), what can we learn from previous implementations and bring to the next implementation.

In my whole career I have never seen the pace of new SAP Technology move so fast and so wide. One of the phenomena which never ceases to amaze me these days is as the front end and user experience becomes easier, the back complexity goes up exponentially, as we make the front end more simple we make the backend more complex.

Please expect to find changes and new information here, because it will be a live work in progress.

Hopefully this toolbox will accelerate you as much as it will accelerate me.

This is the journey you are going on...

Source: 20230328_sap_dmlt.pdf

Capabilities Reference Architecture for Best S/4HANA Transformation, SAP Applications and Processes, The SAP Big Picture Architecture... SAP Big Picture Architecture

Ok, let's go 🚀

Section 1] General Introduction Documents and RISE Getting Started Guides

What is RISE from the viewpoint of a SAP Technology Architect ?

This is your starting point:

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Customer Journey RISE Document.pdf

Provisioning Guide for RISE with SAP.pdf

Discover Organizational Change Management for SAP Cloud Projects

SAP Cloud ALM

Data Migration | SAP Help Portal

SAP Enterprise Support Academy

RISE with SAP - Webcast E-book go through all of the links in there

SAP | Knowledge Transfer for SAP User Groups sign up for the Events

The SAP Transformation home page... SAP | Transformation Series

The following picture is from the publicly available document Presentation Title

This is a really nice document and worth reading, but, it doesn't go in to the details...

RISE with SAP Overview Focus on SAP S/4HANA, private cloud edition

This one below is from here: PowerPoint Presentation

How do you do RISE ?

Regardless of what anybody thinks about all of the different methodologies, every SAP Customer who is contemplating the move to S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition on RISE must begin by reading about the "RISE with SAP Methodology".

This is basically a guided procedure including supporting documentation to help SAP Customers get to S/4HANA in the smoothest and straightest line possible.

This picture is very useful because it elaborates a little more what is happening at each part of the journey:

The RISE with SAP Methodology introduction

SAP S/4HANA transformation : RISE with SAP Methodology System Conversion – Transition : Integrated Tool Chain Approach (Process Design, Solution Design, Build, Test, Implement, Enable)

Here's an introduction to the methodology RISE with SAP | Methodology

This is the overview of the guided procedure:

This picture comes from this document which is publicly available: Mapping your journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition : A practical guide for senior IT leadership

These are the core tasks of the methodology:

day_1_session_2b_pnp_application_modernization_migration.pdf

I recommend everybody who will be part of the journey to read that document as one of the first steps, once everybody has read that document, everybody will be on the same page as to what lies ahead.

Here are more documents which are very useful during the preparation:

SAP Activate Methodology for SAP S/4HANA Transformation

https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/#/group/AAE80671-5087-430B-9AA7-8FBE881CF548/phaseAccelerator/S4HANATRANSONPRE

Take the RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition learning journey...

Discovering RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, premium plus Implementation and Adoption

If you can afford it, you should do the SAP Activate Training Courses and the SAP RISE Training Course

ACT1CL_EN_Col11 SAP Activate Methodology Introduction

ACT2CL_EN_Col11 SAP Activate Methodology Cloud Implementation

ACT5CL_EN_Col12 Introduction to SAP Activate Methodology for SAP Cloud Implementations

ACT100.21.EN-US SAP Activate Methodology

S4C03_EN_Col21 RISE with S4HANA Cloud Private Edition Onboarding Fundamentals

This is another really nice overview and get-you-started guide, with very nice explanations and pictures:

https://assets.dm.ux.sap.com/webinars/sap-user-groups-k4u/pdfs/220630_discover_value_of_rise_with_sap.pdf

One of the things mentioned in the SAP Activate Training Course is the 10 SAP Quality Principles, this document is an oldy, and a goody, from 2016 and goes through the 10 SAP Quality Principles, Driving Excellence in Implementations - and Beyond: The Underlying Quality Principles and one of the principles is:

SAP Quality Awards for Customer Success | SAP Quality

SAP Landscape Management HomePage

https://support.sap.com/en/tools/software-logistics-tools/landscape-management-process.html?anchorId=section_1465999275

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Product Overview - nice comparisons

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Licensing Overview

From the same presentation RISE Package Portfolio:

And from the same presentation RISE Package Details and FUE's

From the same document.....

Please note, from S/4HANA 2023, S/4HANA PCE and S/4HANA On-Premise have different Feature Scope Definitions...

RISE with SAP Packages

This is the SAP Marketing page, as Technical Architects we need to know what the RISE options are, what the possibilities are, what the different SAP RISE Packages contain and be able to advise and consider and decide which would be best for our RISE Programs

RISE with SAP | How to Buy

Click on the link and expand the Options to see the details of what is included

Cloud architecture, services, operations, and tools included in all RISE with SAP packages:

All details are in the RISE with SAP Packages link

And while we are at it, here are the RISE with SAP Service Specifications for Enterprise Cloud Services...

SAP S/4HANA Cloud private edition - Service Specifications

Join the SAP RISE Community

RISE with SAP | SAP Community

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Service Description Guide ("SDG")

rise-with-sap-s4hana-cloud-private-edition-service-description-guide-english-v6-2024.pdf

This is the shall we say, academic, legal, technical, description of the RISE with SAP Service and including information like this:

SAP S/4 Transformation Readiness Homepage

https://me.sap.com/readinesscheck/home

When and How to Run the SAP S/4HANA Readiness Check

Title

SAP S/4HANA Readiness Check Preparation Overview

Readiness Check preparation overview

SAP Readiness Check | SAP Help Portal

Availability of SAP Readiness Check | SAP Help Portal

SAP for Me - Readiness Check - homepage...

SAP Readiness Check - SAP for Me

2913617 - SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA - SAP for Me

3059197 - SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA upgrades - SAP for Me

SAP Readiness Check | SAP Community

RISE OnBoarding Resource Center

https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/rise/rise-private.html

RISE OnBoarding Handbook Page

Onboarding Handbook .pdf

The Handbook is another MUST READ and is publicly available and contains a huge amount of useful practical information, like this, what happens after signing the SAP RISE Contract:

https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/rise.html

Then you are reminded of the overview of who does what...

and then you are reminded that to be a Future Ready Enterprise you are going to need a BTP...

Source: https://assets.dm.ux.sap.com/webinars/sap-user-groups-k4u/pdfs/differentiating_your_core_erp_with_sap_s4hana_240227.pdf

Source: https://assets.dm.ux.sap.com/webinars/sap-user-groups-k4u/pdfs/introduction_to_rise_with_sap_240222_.pdf

And there is a link to an excellent publicly available document on the Future Ready Enterprise with the BTP FRE Best Practice Guide for RISE Transformation_Private Cloud.pdf

BTP is covered in detail in the BTP section of the Toolbox

This is a really useful document, it walks you through a theoretical S/4HANA Transformation and including all of the steps Transformation Plan 1.0 - Outcome summary of SAP S/4HANA Adoption Starter

Moving to RISE Differentiating your Core ERP with S/4HANA PCE

Presentation Title

SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Delta Scope

Learn how you can explain the main differences between SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition to your SAP ERP customers starting the transformation journey to
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition (eg ACDOCA)

SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Delta Scope

RISE with SAP Transition Workbench

https://help.sap.com/docs/SLTOOLSET/940e4b48bd434bcb95db32940d08694f/cc75825f2d7049db96b6c60ec269aac6.html

SAP Events, click the link and use the search box to find subjects you are interested in and subscribe to them: SAP Events | Finder

More useful doco, the "Overview of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition"...

Edition Benefits | SAP Help Portal

RISE with SAP Embedded Launch Activities Specifications, this is where SAP helps you with the journey...

SAP Sales and Service Cloud Functional Specifications_20181129_Rev2

Activate Roadmap Viewer:

https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/

Click on

"RISE with SAP Clean Core Success Plan" and it takes you to

"SAP Activate Methodology for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition"

https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/#/group/658F507A-D6F5-4B78-9EE1-0300C5F1E40F/roadmapContentPage/a11ec6d657054bf9:t23

https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/05/44b3ebd5-4b7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

The Clean Core Concept

Clean Core as the foundation for future readiness

Clean Core is an ongoing strategy

https://d.dam.sap.com/x/HvXc6b7/94115_92460_enUS.pdf?rc=19&inline=true

Exploring how to make Business Processes Clean Core Compliant

Exploring How to Make Business Processes Clean Core Compliant

Clean Core Strategy

RISE with SAP | ERP Clean Core Strategy

this is a very very useful document, you need an S User for it

Clean Core Extensibility

Clean core extensibility for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

RISE PCE ECS Services

https://www.sap.com/about/agreements/policies/hec-services.html?sort=latest_desc&search=private%20edition%20roles%20responsibilities

SAP Help Portal Welcome RISE PCE

https://help.sap.com/doc/daa7b7ca5dfb4fc28a69c3bbd4e22f60/ALL/en-US/SAP_Help_Portal_Welcome_PCE.pdf

Onboarding Resource Center

https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/sap-customer-onboarding-webinars/sap-s-4hana-customer-onboarding-webinars.html

https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/rise/rise-private.html

SAP RISE Partner Finder

https://partnerfinder.sap.com/

RISE with SAP - Migrate your ERP system to the cloud – and keep on innovating

Presentation Title

From the same presentation, the RISE Methodology Migration and Modernisation Program

S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Including Transition Paths Architectural Landscape Offering Comparison

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD_PE/b89b8b9026e1456bb2a1df7c0d59c937/f70e688a7cf54c1a8980cc3298b57e30.html

RISE OnBoarding Handbook

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/aW26pWQ/Onboarding%20Handbook.pdf?rc=10

RISE PCE Help Page

https://help.sap.com/docs/RISE_WITH_SAP_PRIVATE_CLOUD_EDITION

When you open that page, click on the Logon button in the top right hand corner, I know, logon to help.sap.com we never did that before, but if you do that here, and your S User has the correct (Customer) authorisations you will see a collection of 40 pdf's going in to deep dives across the following areas of RISE. Please note: to see these documents you will need to be a RISE Customer... for example....

SAP_ECC_to_SAP_S4HANA_Transformation_Roadmap_System_Conversion

SAP_ECS_Customer_Runbook

SAP_Private_Cloud_Internet_Proxy_Service

SAP_Technical_Onboarding_Topics_for_PCE

SAP_ECS_S4HANA_Cloud_PE_CDC_Connectivity

SAP_Enterprise_Cloud_Services_Backups

SAP_Enterprise_Cloud_Services_Global_Support_Operations_Guide

SAP_HANA_USER_MANAGEMENT_ABAP_Client_000

SAP_HANA_USER_MANAGEMENT_PCE_Customer_User_Guide

SAP_Help_Portal_Welcome_PCE

SAP_PCE_Service_Request_Bundling

SAP_PCE_VPN_Guide

SAP_Private_Cloud_Customer_Connectivity_Options

SAP_Private_Cloud_DNS_Integration_Guide

SAP_Private_Cloud_DNS_Integration_Scenarios

Changes initiated by SAP

ECS_Server_Provisioning_Guide

SAP_Cloud_Peering_Customer_Guide_PCE

SAP_ECS_Business_Continuity

SAP_ECS_Customer_Role

SAP_ECS_Customer_Service_Request_Onboarding

SAP_ECS_DB_Release_Roadmap

SAP_ECS_DR_Testing

SAP_ECS_Escalation_Process_Overview

SAP_ECS_Fighting_Against_Ransomware

SAP_ECS_Key_KBAs

SAP_ECS_Monitoring

SAP_ECS_Network_Concept

SAP_ECS_Release_Lifecycle_Management

SAP_ECS_Mixed_HADR

Webinars

https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/sap-customer-onboarding-webinars/sap-s-4hana-customer-onboarding-webinars.html

Implementing SAP S/4HANA with a Cloud Mindset accelerator

The following pictures are from the Onboarding Handbook: Onboarding Handbook .pdf

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_682%20S4%20Cloud%20Mindset%20Implementation.pptx

Mapping Your Journey to SAP S/4HANA – A Practical Guide for Senior IT Leadership

https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/05/44b3ebd5-4b7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Overview

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD_PE/b89b8b9026e1456bb2a1df7c0d59c937/f70e688a7cf54c1a8980cc3298b57e30.html

RISE Beyond SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

This document contains a number of useful slides and including one which touches on the Availability SLA's for RISE with ECS, the 99.5%, 99.7%, 99.95%, there are more details about the S/4HANA PCE ECS SLA Service Level Agreements in the RISE ECS Service Description document which is also in this 1 pager...

Presentation Title

RISE with SAP Migrate your ERP system to the cloud – and keep on innovating

Presentation Title

The Value of RISE with SAP

PowerPoint Presentation

Shared Responsibility in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Presentation Title

Federated governance with SAP Master Data Governance MDG on SAP S/4HANA as core data owner

Federated governance with SAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANA as core data owner

Solution Reference Architecture MDG

Edition Benefits and Comparison PCE and Public

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD_PE/b89b8b9026e1456bb2a1df7c0d59c937/1485d139460246d2a4b936c0bb0ca272.html

RISE S/4HANA PRIVATE CLOUD EDITION Getting Started Guides

https://help.sap.com/docs/RISE_WITH_SAP_PRIVATE_CLOUD_EDITION?task=discover_task

RISE with S/4 PCE

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD_PE

https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/rise/rise-private.html?anchorId=section

PCE Customer Center

https://sway.office.com/9UuBdnelwBKWimBH

S/4HANA OnPremise Edition

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/8308e6d301d54584a33cd04a9861bc52/2c0e7c571fbeb576e10000000a4450e5.html

Extend SAP S/4HANA in the cloud and on premise with ABAP based extensions
Guidelines for extension project managers, key users, and ABAP developers

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1612%20Extend%20SAP%20S_4HANA%20in%20the%20cloud%20and%20on%20premise%20with%20ABAP%20based%20extensions.pdf

We'll just slip this SAP S/4HANA Cloud Single Tenant Edition presentation in because it could be useful...

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

And while we're here we'll include a link to the SAP Cloud for Customer C4C Setup Guide

SetUpGuide.pdf

SAP Enterprise Architecture Methodology Guide

As @Gaurish-Dessai and @PaulKurchina are teaching, SAP Enterprise Architecture and SAP Enterprise Architects need complete re-wiring, and need to change from "Governance focused" to being "accelerators of Innovation and Transformation"

It is all to clear to see, companies and people which don't change mindset, will be left behind, we all need to join the Enterprise Architecture SAP Community and read the fantastic blogs...

https://community.sap.com/t5/enterprise-architecture-blog-posts/bg-p/Enterprise-Architectureblog-board

SAP Technical and Enterprise Architects need to innovate, if you are a RISE PCE Customer and you want to innovate then you can apply to be part of the Early Adopter Care program for all different new technologies, keep an eye on the subjects here:

https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/

Next up we have the....

SAP Enterprise Architecture Methodology Guide

Getting Started | SAP Help Portal

The SAP Enterprise Architecture Methodology is very important for all of us Architects, and, another, must read, here are some useful pictures to give a taster...

While we are here, this document,

https://help.sap.com/docs/link-disclaimer?site=https%3A%2F%2Fd.dam.sap.com%2Fa%2FJ9MF5Fb%3Frc%3D10%26doi%3DSAP1125785

Slide #106, SAP EA Enterprise Architecture Metro Map

SAP Enterprise Architecture Methodology Getting Started Guide from help.sap.com

Getting Started | SAP Help Portal

Since we are here, we cannot, not mention, LeanIX... so we'll start with the LeanIX and Business and Solution Transformation Tools and Methodology Learning Journey from the LearningHub...

Exploring Business and Solution Transformation Tools and Methodology

The Rise with SAP Methodology Dashboard

Launching the RISE with SAP Methodology Dashboard ... - SAP Community

SAP Cloud ALM and RISE with SAP | SAP Help Portal

The System View dashboard is now available on the SAP Cloud ALM launchpad. It gives you information on your system's clean core compliance.

SAP Cloud Appliance Library CAL

SAP Cloud Appliance Library

SAP CAL S/4HANA Fully Activated Appliance Getting Started Guide

bf0c9643-65f2-4647-9146-2afce089cf1a_Getting_Started_Guide_v7.pdf

SAP CAL S/4HANA FAA Fully Activated Application Technical Components Architecture

bf0c9643-65f2-4647-9146-2afce089cf1a_2023_FAA_Architecture.png (2559×1439)

SAP CAL S/4HANA Trial Edition

SAP S/4HANA | Trial

SAP for ME User Setup

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/4NS7wPS/SAP%20for%20Me%20Initial%20Access%20-%20Customer%20Onboarding%20Digital%20Experience.pdf?rc=10

Getting Started with Support from SAP (Support Accreditation)

https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/getting-started-with-support-from-sap-support-accreditation

Landscape Management Process

https://support.sap.com/en/tools/software-logistics-tools/landscape-management-process.html?anchorId=section_175842419

SAP SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit - Cookbook - Public Edition

SAP for Me Explanation

https://support.sap.com/content/launchpad/oslp-retired.html

SAP Blue Field Selective Data Transition

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/support-services/data-management-landscape-transformation/selective-data-transition-engagement.html?anchorId=section_1492374967

Adobe Document Services on SAP RISE

3489432 - Question Inquiry regarding SAP Forms service by Adobe usage for RISE with SAP

Transactions

1405975 - Minimum Authorization Profile for Remote Service Delivery

Data Volume Management during Migration to S/4HANA

2818267 - Data Volume Management during migration to SAP S4HANA

Digital Access

You need to keep a close eye on what SAP data is going where and being used where and how, because SAP will charge you for it.

This is how SAP describe Digital Access on help.sap.com Digital Access | SAP Help Portal

This document is from 2018/2019 and has nice pictures explaining the subject...

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

A useful document from 2021 Digital Access Adoption Program DAAP_External_FV_050520.pdf

The SAP Digital Access Evaluation Service... SAP Digital Access

Another useful document PowerPoint Presentation

Digital Access in the context of SAP RISE, RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Licensing Overview slide number 8, this document is publicly available...

This is another older document, but again very useful, because it contains very nice descriptions of Indirect / Digital Access Indirect_Access_Guide_for_SAP_Installed_Base.pdf

This is not something to be ignored or taken lightly.

2711786 - Digital Access Technical SAP Note

2738406 - Digital Access Central Technical Guidelines

2853271 - Digital Access License in SAP S4HANA Cloud from 3rd party legacy system

2955707 - Message You do not have an active license in the license Compliance Digital Access App

3004348 - What is counted as digital access

2716388 - Digital Access Message texts

DMO to S/4HANA on RISE

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/nyiZxHt/Slides%20-%20SAP%20Premium%20Engagement%20Session%20-%20Conversion%20to%20SAP%20S4HANA%20and%20RISE%20-%20in%20one%20Go.pdf?inline=true

The following link is the video of the webinar from SAP and this is well worth watching

https://dam.sap.com/mac/app/p/video/asset/preview/Hcyt8pC?ltr=a&rc=10&doi=SAP1125273

Very useful DMO Performance Blog thanks @mirja_kempin

HELP! The database migration is too slow! #DMOVE2S... - SAP Community

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud License Overview

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Licensing and FUE Full Usage Equivalents, this is a nice picture in this publicly available document: RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Licensing Overview

It is extremely important to take care of how you classify your Users, all Users, Dialog and System/Technical, because if you don't classify a User then that User will be measured as Advanced and charged accordingly.

And then the following documents bring more light to the subject....

SAP ECS FUE's Consumption FUE me.sap.com

https://me.sap.com/financelegal/Consumption

go to me.sap.com -> Finance & Legal -> Consumption and there you have it, you will need the right authorisations

3113382 - Authorization-based SAP S/4HANA User Simulation / FUE Projection

20211005 - RISE_with_SAP Licensing FUE explaination

FUE, Price Lists for Private Cloud and SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition - User Type Descriptions

Price Lists PCE

Metering for FUE FUE sizing ppt

sap-private-cloud-metering-interpretation-of-data-from-different-sources.pdf

SAP Private Cloud Metering

https://support.sap.com/en/my-support/systems-installations/glac/private-cloud-metering.html?wcmmode=disabled&anchorId=section_833509608_co

https://support.sap.com/en/my-support/systems-installations/glac/private-cloud-metering.html?anchorId=section_833509608_co

https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/#/group/658F507A-D6F5-4B78-9EE1-0300C5F1E40F/phaseAccelerator/a11ec6d657054bf9:FA163EAF25B21EEB8FC47DE9E72868DB,FA163EAF25B21EEB8FC47DE9E72888DB,FA163EAF25B21EEB8FC47DE9E728A8DB,FA163EAF25B21EEB8FC47DE9E728C8DB,FA163EAF25B21EEB8FC47DE9E728E8DB,FA163EAF25B21EEB8FC47DE9E72908DB,t23

https://support.sap.com/en/my-support/systems-installations/glac/private-cloud-metering.html?anchorId=section_1138314800_c

SAP Licensing Overview included in the following presentation

Not the newest, but still useful...

SAP S/4HANA Strategy Cloud Customer Advisory Council 2020

Useful OSS Notes for the preparation of going to S/4HANA PCE on RISE

3039705 - SAP Best Practices Activation process and questionnaire for RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, advanced edition

2394975 - FAQ CQC Service Results

2881788 - End of SAP Business Suite 7 mainstream maintenance

2913617 - SAP Readiness Check for SAP S4HANA

3016445 - SAP ERP, private cloud edition Information about the release and maintenance strategy

3016524 - RISE with SAP S4HANA, private cloud edition Information about the release and maintenance strategy

3017596 - RISE with SAP S4HANA, private cloud edition and SAP ERP, private cloud edition Information about maintenance availability

3018442 - Selective Data Transition and Selective Data Transition Engagement

3035880 - Recommendations for greenfield implementations of RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition following a cloud mindset

3039705 - SAP Best Practices Activation process and questionnaire for RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, advanced edition

3097708 - Release upgrade for RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud 2-System and 3-System Landscape

3393071 - Technical Preparation Services for SAP S4HANA Movement for Private Cloud

20211005 - RISE_with_SAP Licensing FUE explaination

3544232 - Validating System Recoverability for SAP HANA System Replication During RISE S/4HANA Migration - SAP for Me

3470873 - SAP Access Control 12.0 - Rise PCE migration queries

3489432 - Question Inquiry regarding SAP Forms service by Adobe usage for RISE with SAP

3429848 - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition: Integration with SAP Start - Restrictions - SAP for Me

3279787 - SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition : Partner Products compatible with S/4HANA 2022 - SAP for Me

3194163 - Private Cloud Edition Reset Password - SAP for Me

3470873 - SAP Access Control 12.0 - Rise/PCE migration queries - SAP for Me

SAP Business Accelerator Hub S/4HANA API Events Integrations Business Processes Library

Overview | SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition | SAP Business Accelerator Hub

Follow the SAP Support Academy

SAP Enterprise Support Academy Newsletter January ... - SAP Community

SAP Enterprise Support Academy newsletter

SAP Enterprise Support Academy

ORC Revamp Cutover.pdf

Setting Up Automation of Source-to-Pay with Ariba Network and S/4HANA SAP Business Network (42K)

Section 1.001] The SAP 10 Principles of Quality

Everybody should read this before going any further...

SAP Quality Awards for Customer Success | SAP Quality

Anchor Business Value Firmly in your Project and Start Scoping Early

Cooperate with Stakeholders and use a Proper Governance Model, and, Ensure Timely Delivery and Effective Tracking

Staff the Project with Sufficient Competent and Motivated People, and, Apply Appropriate Methodology and Plan for Quality

Identify and Manage Risks and Issues Throughout the Project, and, Exploit Standard Functionality and Delivery Best Practices

Achieve Production Readiness, and, Use Organisational Change Management to Transform Business

Section 1.01] The SAP & Customer Shared Responsibilities on RISE

The goal of this section is to help the SAP Customer who is thinking about RISE to build a clear picture and understanding of what the responsibilities are and what the segregation of duties are.

A lot of people seem to think that on RISE the Customer won't need a Basis Team, well, far from it, on RISE the Customer obviously won't need so many Basis people, but, and the big but is, the Customer will need exceptionally qualified and experienced Basis people who at the same time have a very good maturity and discipline in their behaviour. One of my biggest lessons, and there are many many learnings, has been, with RISE, due to the nature of the shared responsibilities, there is very little room for trial and error in the Basis Domain, and the Basis Team need to put massive effort in to proper planning and preparation of activities and understand who will do what bases upon the segregation of duties between SAP and the Customer. There is no room for trial and error when doing new things in the Basis area.

So, we could write a book about that, but we are here to share useful documentation, so here it comes...

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Security and Compliance

Don't be deceived by the title, this document contains some golden information, anybody wanting to understand who does what with RISE, here are pictures you need, these picture show where your responsibilities are:

We start with a higher level view which is from the RISE OnBoarding Handbook Onboarding Handbook .pdf

In my opinion the above picture is not detailed enough, it doesn't communicated really how much responsibility the Customer SAP Basis Team will have. (The detailed list of ECS Services is here: SAP S/4HANA Cloud private edition - Service Specifications)

The following pictures go into some more detail on the Customer's SAP Basis responsibilities:

The above pictures are from the publicly available document Check & ProductivityPlus Training

RISE with SAP: Shared Security Responsibility for SAP Cloud Services

There are some great pictures and explanations in this blog, like this one:

Speaking from first hand experience this is how I see the responsibilities, this can of course all by done by SAP ECS by the Customer buying additional Services:

Customer / SI

Dedicated Private Connectivity to Hyperscaler
Configuration of Business Processes
Application Administration and Management
Application Identity Management
Application Authentication and Authorisation
Business Roles, User Groups, Access Control
Compliance Regulations
Application Security Audit Logs
API Extension, Integration and 3rd Party Connectivity
Application Change Management
Performance Management
Advanced Security & Compliance
Functional Application Management
Deployment Management
Testing
Release Management
Business Improvement
Data LifeCycle Management
Operations Improvement
Advanced Application / Solution Monitoring
Application Security Updates
Continuous Operations

SAP ECS

SW Subscription / Support
Reference Architecture
Technical System Operations
HA / DR
OS/ DB
Compute/Storage/Network
Threat Management and Patch Management
Operational Security

RISE with SAP: Shared Security Responsibility for ... - SAP Community

Shared Responsibility Model Between You and SAP for the SAP BTP

Shared Responsibility Model Between You and SAP | SAP Help Portal

Shared Responsibility in SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Presentation Title

Rise with SAP SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition Cyber Security & Data Privacy

This is a very useful document, a couple of years old, but it contains very useful information like this for example

220818_rise_with_sap_sap_hana_cloud_private_edtition.pdf

SAP Learning Hub, SAP Learning Journeys for Introducing RISE with SAP Services

Introducing RISE with SAP Services

Sizing and Data Volume Management

In RISE, you have to take care of the System Sizing and Data Volume Management, SAP ECS deliver a T Shirt sized system and the rest is up to you, so here are some useful sizing related links...

As it says in this document, Principles of SAP HANA Sizing - on premise and cloud "Memory is the leading driver in (S/4) HANA sizing"...

And we need to go back to basics regarding HANA sizing and remember the 2 to 1 rule, which is also re-iterated here, 3307794 - How to judge if the available memory is sufficient for the current system - SAP for Me which points to item #10 of this Note 1999997 - FAQ: SAP HANA Memory - SAP for Me

The total size of column store and row store should not exceed 50 % of the allocation limit.

Here are useful OSS Notes and Guides

3464083 - Quick check for whether HANA memory is sufficient - SAP for Me

1969700 - SQL Statement Collection for SAP HANA - SAP for Me

3307794 - How to judge if the available memory is sufficient for the current system - SAP for Me

2813738 - Brownfield sizing for SAP S4HANA embedded analytics

2943225 - Scalability and throughput of S4HANA in large customer installations

2815376 - Greenfield sizing for SAP S4HANA embedded analytics

This Sizing Guide is first class

Practical Guidelines and Techniques for Sizing your SAP Landscape for Optimal Performance and Scalability

This next one is a very useful Sizing document for S/4HANA and S/4HANA Cloud, it's also useful for the PCE Edition, because it talks about Sizing S/4HANA for Non-SAP Systems which are calling API's on the S/4 and talks about how the S/4 Cloud QuickSizer has a category for API calls, and for some reason the PCE QuickSizer doesn't have that category. I find that more and more Non-SAP systems are calling OData API's on the S/4HANA and we need to be able to size for API calls, we need to think of a calling System as a User and the API as a Transaction and we need to understand the frequency of API calls, the complexity of the business logic behind the API call and the volume of the data being posted or gotten...

CAA303 - Sizing for SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud

As is this one...

Introduction into Post Go-Live Sizings

as is this one...

Sizing Methods and Tools

and this one...

Expert Sizing & Methods of Sizing Validation

and this one...

Principles of SAP HANA Sizing - on premise and cloud

and a guide to the QuickSizer

Determine Your Sizing Requirements with Quick Sizer

and the magic QuickSizer Url...

https://userapps.support.sap.com/sap/bc/bsp/sap/qs_oberflaeche/hana.do?bsp-language=en

Here is the Url for S/4 Cloud (HANA based) Quick Sizer, this one if useful because it has a category for Non-SAP API calls, which the other one does not have

userapps.support.sap.com/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/sap/qs_oberflaeche/cloud.do?bsp-language=en

The SAP "HANA-based" Quick Sizer Rough Guide (you'll need an S User)

HANA Quick Sizer Rough Guide

The HANA-based Quick Sizer - How to fill in the questionnaire

SAP Quick Sizer Help

The SAP "HANA-based Cloud" Quick Sizer Rough Guide

SAP HANA Cloud - Quick Sizer Rough Guide

The SAP Quick Sizer Best Practices

pdf1.htm

If you are doing sizing with the HANA-Cloud based QuickSizer, the results will be given as a value, "Tier Number for Cloud Pricing", and you get a number like, "04". The question is, how does this number correspond or translate to FUE's ? Ok, the following is an unofficial rule of thumb conversion from "Tier Number for Cloud Pricing" to FUE:

If you are using the HANA-Cloud based QuickSizer to do a sizing calculation for S/4HANA PCE, you can then take that FUE range and translate it to the T Shirt sizing for the S/4HANA PCE according to the service specification here:

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Service Description Guide

rise-with-sap-s4hana-cloud-private-edition-service-description-guide-english-v12-2024.pdf

SAP Sizing home page

https://www.sap.com/about/benchmark/sizing.html

SAP S/4HANA Sizing Guidelines

SAP S/4HANA Sizing Guidelines | SAP Help Portal

How to use the SAP Quick Sizer

How to use the Quick Sizer - SAP's sizing tool for greenfield sizings

Some other useful sizing guides

Other Sizing Guidelines | SAP Help Portal

Sizing SAP Edge Integration Cell

Sizing_Guide_Edge_Integration_Cell.pdf

SAP In-Memory Computing Sizing Guidelines

SAP In-Memory Computing Sizing Guidelines | SAP Help Portal

SAP BTP Sizing

SAP Business Technology Platform Sizing Guidelines | SAP Help Portal

OData API's are extremely powerful compared to BAPI's and RFC's, and ODATA API's can even be executed as Batches and can execute very complex activities as I elaborated here https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-members/s-4hana-odata-api-s-is-it-time-for-a-quot-safety-belt-quot/ba-p/13704550 I've seen OData API performance problems where the answer has been to create Indexes at the HANA level as is described here Multi-Column Index Types | SAP Help Portal and here CREATE INDEX Statement (Data Definition) | SAP Help Portal, and the point of the story,

To Create Indexes at the HANA DB level, only the ECS Basis Team can do that and you will need a Service Request...

Regarding sizing S/4HANA for API calls from other and non-SAP systems, the recommendation I have is think of the calling System as a Standard User and the API as a Transaction and size it that way with the QuickSizer.

There are also however some interesting OSS Notes around the subject, for example this one for Success Factors, the Best Practices and Principles in this OSS Note, in my opinion, in general also apply in the case of S/4HANA

2735876 - Odata API Best Practices [Query Modified Records, Pagination - Batch Size, Timeouts, etc.,] - SAP Successfactors Odata API - SAP for Me

This OSS Note is interesting because it gives hints on how to get the best performance from the Journal Entries API call, and the guidance here can be used as thought leadership for improving performance in other API's...

3391018 - Performance recommendations for Journal Entry - Post API - S/4HANA Cloud - SAP for Me

Data Volume Management Sizing with SAP HANA Native Storage Extension

3406430 - Sizing-relevant information for using SAP HANA NSE in SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition - SAP for Me

2973243 - Guidance for use of SAP HANA Native Storage Extension in SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA - SAP for Me

Performance - if your S/4 is not performing, it's your job to find out why, unless you buy a CAS Service from ECS... so you'll need to roll up your sleeves and do some good old performance analysis... Where is the problem... OS DB, OS App Server, Which API's are having a problem ?What are the API's doing ? External Components CI / APIM / etc

SAP Gateway Foundation (SAP_GWFND)

https://help.sap.com/docs/ABAP_PLATFORM_NEW/68bf513362174d54b58cddec28794093/98f6ff5082d2793ee10000000a423f68.html?locale=en-US&state=PRODUCTION&version=202310.001

2524975 - Performance tracing overview: SAT, ST05 & ST12 traces - SAP for Me

2520774 - FAQ: SAP HANA Performance Trace - SAP for Me

2126752 - Performance Problems when reading Business Partner Change Documents - SAP for Me

2689405 - FAQ: SAP S/4HANA Performance Best Practices - Collective Note - SAP for Me

2000002 - FAQ: SAP HANA SQL Optimization - SAP for Me

SAP_HANA_Troubleshooting_and_Performance_Analysis_Guide_en

https://help.sap.com/doc/e344ef1295b6433e88fe084c0768e1cd/2.0.07/en-US/SAP_HANA_Troubleshooting_and_Performance_Analysis_Guide_en.pdf

CAS Cloud Application Services - Performance Management

6 weeks to create the scripts ! Obviously this ain't their first rodeo...

https://assets.cdn.sap.com/agreements/product-policy/hec/service-description/sap-cloud-application-services-for-performance-management-english-v8-2024.pdf

CAS Cloud Application Services - Core Performance Management

https://assets.cdn.sap.com/agreements/product-policy/hec/service-description/sap-cloud-application-service-for-core-performance-management-english-v8-2024.pdf

2925766 - How to troubleshoot OData performance issues with Gateway Performance Trace? - SAP for Me

2999990 - How-To: SAP HANA Performance Analysis - SAP for Me

3212479 - How to identify whether it's a HANA Database performance problem according to ST12 trace - SAP for Me

2362876 - Gateway performance issue - relevant notes - SAP for Me

2943225 - Scalability and throughput of S/4HANA in large customer installations - SAP for Me

2436955 - How to collect and analyze traces using ST12 (single transaction analysis) - SAP for Me

Best Practice - Proactive Performance and Capacity Management

AGS_47.pdf

Best Practices for Designing, Developing, and Testing to Ensure Optimum System Scalability and Performance

Section 1.02] The S/4HANA 3 Transition & Migration & Implementation Options

Before we start here, if you are a Learning Hub Customer have a look at these courses:

ADM328_EN_Col23 SAP S4HANA Conversion and SAP system upgrade

ADM329_EN_Col21 SAP S4HANA Downtime-optimized Conversion

Furthermore, I recommend you to engage the SAP North Star Architecture Service (for an introduction have a look further down in this 1 pager as there is a lot of North Star information in that section).

SAP PE Session 'North Star service' (Virtual, Dece... - SAP Community

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Digital Library

The SAP North Star Architecture should be engaged from the very beginning of the journey, as should be considered as an investment to safeguard the success of the Program.

There are three ways to get to S/4HANA PCE on RISE:

Greenfield - new clean S/4HANA

Bluefield Selective Data Transition - search this page for Bluefield and you will find the latest guides on how to do this

Brownfield Transformation - transform and convert an existing ECC in to an S/4HANA

This document is publicly available: 20230328_sap_dmlt.pdf

I'm not going to write much more on this in my own words because there is so much very useful documentation available from SAP on this subject.

This section of the Toolbox will provide links to lots of useful supporting documents and highlight very useful diagrams which will help for understanding your situation and your options.

It's less about tossing a coin and more about understanding what you want to achieve and where you want to get to. The following documents and pictures will explain why...

Please note some of these documents are older and some are newer, the older ones are using older terminology, but the essentials are the same and that's why they are included here, because the message they communicate is useful

These pictures are from this publicly available document: Microsoft PowerPoint - S4HANA RIG @ User Groups.pptx

The following picture is from this publicly available document: PowerPoint Presentation

The following three pictures are from a really good publicly available RIG document from March 2024: GSSP workshop Day 1 - Part 1

Here is another publicly available excellent picture: day_1_session_2b_pnp_application_modernization_migration.pdf

Match your business objectives to possible transition paths...

Do you want to do Process ReUse or Process ReDesign, from the same presentation as the one above..

This is a really useful document, it walks you through a theoretical example demo S/4HANA Transformation and including all of the steps Transformation Plan 1.0 - Outcome summary of SAP S/4HANA Adoption Starter

and some very useful pictures....

Section 1.1] Implementing and Running S/4HANA PCE Private Cloud Edition on SAP RISE

There are three ways to get to S/4HANA PCE on RISE:

Greenfield - new clean S/4HANA

Bluefield - search this page for Bluefield and you will find the latest guides on how to do this

Brownfield - transform an existing ECC in to an S/4HANA

There is a very nice document here FRE Best Practice Guide for RISE Transformation_Private Cloud.pdf which amongst other things has some nice picture and details on SAP's recommended architectures for the different S/4HANA migration/transformation approaches including:

The following two pictures are Brownfield, meaning you Transform your existing ERP in to an S/4HANA on RISE:

These three pictures are publicly available in this document: Mapping your journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition : A practical guide for senior IT leadership

The SAP Activate Roadmap Viewer

This is , the starting point, this is an unbelievable library of resources

You navigate it like this, click the link below, and then click Explore all Roadmaps

then click SAP Activate Methodology for SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition on SAP RISE

then read the Overview and click any of the links and then click on Accelerators

SAP for Me

Transition Paths to S/4HANA (RIG Document)

This is an extremely valuable document as one would expect because it comes from the RIG and it has a lot of useful pictures and information which need to be elaborated here.. this document is first class and a great reference and must read

GSSP workshop Day 1 - Part 1

the RIG document then points to this, another amazing document...

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Migrate your Data to SAP S/4HANA

This document also contains an amazing amount of detailed pictures which need to be elaborated here....

https://www.sap.com/docs/download/2017/07/26113ac0-c47c-0010-82c7-eda71af511fa.pdf

How to Approach a Remote Cutover

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_747%20How%20to%20Approach%20Remote%20Cutover.pptx

Best-Practice Document - Elements for Designing a Transition Roadmap to SAP S/4HANA

Whitepaper_v28_final.pdf

The SAP RISE Transition Option A Bridge for the RISE with SAP Journey | SAP News Center

In the second quarter of 2025, SAP will announce an offering called “SAP ERP, private edition, transition option.” This cloud subscription service is designed to help large customers with complex installations on a RISE with SAP journey from SAP ERP systems to SAP cloud ERP.

In the meantime, there is this option....

RISE with SAP Limited Maintenance Policy

The RISE LMP provides an overview of how SAP S/4HANA on-premise customers currently using a production system on a release not currently under mainstream maintenance or with less than nine months remaining of mainstream maintenance as of the start date of their Order Form for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition or RISE with
SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, tailored option (each a “RISE Private Edition”) can upgrade to a current SAP S/4HANA software release in mainstream maintenance through RISE Private Edition. Furthermore, the RISE LMP describes the process, technical framework, and associated pre-requisites for a customer to move and upgrade to RISE Private Edition from a release with limited or no remaining mainstream maintenance for SAP S/4HANA

This is a very useful and important document with useful pictures which are elaborated here...

rise-with-sap-limited-maintenance-policy-english-v11-2021.pdf

SAP RISE Limited Maintenance Policy and System Move and Upgrade 2 step go-live...

Conversion to RISE Private Edition responsibilities in the System Move

Paths for Transitioning to S/4HANA

CAA114 - Paths for Transitioning to SAP S/4HANA

Cloud Mindset Assessment

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_666%20Cloud%20Mindset%20Assessment_External.pptx

Custom Code Migration Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/9dcbc5e47ba54a5cbb509afaa49dd5a1/2023.000/en-US/CustomCodeMigration_EndToEnd.pdf

Clean Core Quality Starter

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/DISCOVER_CCQualityGate0.xlsx

Perform SAP Readiness Check for S/4HANA

https://roadmapviewer-supportportal.dispatcher.hana.ondemand.com/?rc=1#/group//roadmap/a11ec6d657054bf9:FA163EAF25B21EEB8FC47DE9E72868DB,t2/node/FA163EF018EC1EECB78AEDF28A4C985E:t2

SAP Activate Methodology High Level Planning Implementation Strategy

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/SAP%20Activate%20Methodology%20High%20Level%20Planning%20-%20Implementation%20Strategy%20Consideration.xlsx

Technical Review Workshop Guide

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1032%20Technical%20Review%20Workshop%20Guide%20for%20System%20Conversion.pdf

Agile Release Planning

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/AG_17.pptx

Conversion Approaches and Downtime Optimisation Techniques

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/Conversion%20Approaches%20and%20Downtime%20Optimization%20Techniques.pdf

Conversion Cycle Considerations and Risks

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/Conversion%20Cycle%20Considerations%20and%20Risks.pdf

Custom Code Migration Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/9dcbc5e47ba54a5cbb509afaa49dd5a1/2023.000/en-US/CustomCodeMigration_EndToEnd.pdf

Custom Extensions in S/4HANA Implementations - Guide for Senior Leadership

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_881%20Custom%20Extensions%20in%20SAP%20S_4HANA%20Implementations%20-%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20for%20Senior%20IT%20Leadership.pdf

Data Migration Approach and Strategy

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/PM_181%20Data%20Migration%20Approach%20and%20Strategy.docx

Dual Maintenance Landscape Considerations and Risks

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/Dual%20Maintenance%20Considerations%20and%20Risks.pdf

This presentation contains a number of The Golden Rules for an S/4HANA Transformation which can be applied in the Journey to RISE and can be taken as going in Principles...

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1614%20Implementing%20SAP%20S4HANA%20Cloud%20private%20edition.pptx

Steps to Deploy SAP S/4HANA on RISE with SAP Activate

Enablers for your S/4HANA on RISE Digital Transformation Journey

Golden Rules for Deploying S/4HANA on RISE with a Cloud Mindset

Implementing SAP S/4HANA with a Cloud Mindset

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_682%20S4%20Cloud%20Mindset%20Implementation.pptx

Key Decision Document Template

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/Key%20Decision%20Document%20Template.pptx

Quick Guide to Evaluating SAP Fiori Apps

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_946%20Quick%20Guide%20to%20Evaluating%20SAP%20Fiori%20apps.pdf

Quick Guide to Naming Conventions for SAP Fiori Entities

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_938%20Quick%20Guide%20to%20Naming%20Conventions%20for%20SAP%20Fiori%20launchpad%20entities.pdf

Retrofit for Selective Data Transition

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_2282%20Retrofit%20Guide%20for%20Selective%20Data%20Transition.pdf

SAP Activate Analytics Strategy

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/SAP%20Activate%20Analytics%20Strategy.docx

SAP Activate for S/4HANA Private Edition - Selective Data Transfer - BlueField

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/SAP%20Activate%20for%20S4HANA%20Cloud%20Private%20Edition%20-%20selective%20data%20transition.pdf

SAP Maintenance Planner Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/9c9945692df94231b8dc323afe48a58e/Latest/en-US/loio6a17e10646f647bc8ace581ebc039b05.pdf

SAP S/4HANA Cookbook - Customer/Vendor Integration

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H.0781%20SAP%20S4HANA%20Cookbook%20Customer%20Vendor%20Integration.pdf

SAP S/4HANA Selective Data Transition BlueField Whitepaper

This is a very very useful document which goes through the details of a BlueField Selective Data Transition and I have the feeling the majority of ECC Customers will go this path...

Bluefield Selective Data Transition compared to New Implementation and System Conversion:

Comparison of System Conversion, Selective Data Transition, New Implementation

Drivers for Selective Data Transition / Bluefield

Decision Criteria

Bluefield Selective Data Transition Project Methodology

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/support-services/data-management-landscape-transformation/whitepaper-sdte.pdf

Selective Data Transition Bluefield Project Landscape

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_2281%20Selective%20Data%20Transition%20-%20Project%20System%20Landscape%20Shell%20Conversion%20Approach.pdf

Selective Data Transition Bluefield Planning Workshop

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_2283%20Selective%20Data%20Transition%20Planning%20Workshop.pdf

Solution Standardisation Board Private Cloud

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_746%20Solution%20Standardization%20Board%20and%20Process%20Template.pptx

Starter System for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition - Getting Started Guide

https://caldocs.hana.ondemand.com/caldocs/help/a62c1e70-8528-4e13-a1bc-5710e7470278_Getting_Started_Guide_v10.pdf

Test Management Guide

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_894%20Test%20Management%20Guide.pptx

S/4HANA Conversion Guide

This is another very useful document

https://help.sap.com/doc/2b87656c4eee4284a5eb8976c0fe88fc/2023/en-US/CONV_OP2023.pdf

Your Finance Transformation Roadmap - Going from ECC to S/4HANA

20230321_sap_finance.pdf

This document is very useful, I found it on google SAP Functional Business Processes explained... SAP_2__MATERIAL_compressed.pdf

SAP S/4HANA MAP

Implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1614%20Implementing%20SAP%20S4HANA%20Cloud%20private%20edition.pptx

Integration Scenario and API List

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_471%20Integration%20Scenario%20List.xlsx

CQC Private Cloud GoLive

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/sap-enterprise-support/enterprise-support-academy/continuous-quality-check-improvement-services/SAP-CQC-FOR%20PRIVATECLOUDGO-LIVE_InfoSheet.pdf

Connect S/4HANA to SAP Analytics Cloud

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/7YmTKro/SAC_S4HANA_Technical_Integration%20-%20Final.pdf?rc=10

Output Management Setup Instructions

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/Sol_Pack/S4C/Library/Setup/1LQ_Set-Up_EN_XX.pdf

SAP Private Cloud Automated User Monitoring FUE Measurement

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/my-support/systems-installations/system-measurement/information-about-sap-system-measurement/documentation/sap-private-cloud-user-metering-guideline.pdf

Transport Concept Migrating Data using Staging Tables

https://www.sap.com/documents/2021/10/6af5929d-007e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html

How to Approach Design your Launchpad Layout Workshop

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_937%20How%20to%20approach%20Design%20your%20Launchpad%20Layout.pptx

SAP Fiori Launchpad Best Practice Verification Checklist

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_992%20SAP%20Fiori%20launchpad%20best%20practice%20verification%20checklist.pdf

What's New is SAP S/4HANA 2023

WN_OP2023_EN.pdf

Upgrading S/4HANA How, Why, and Best Practice

This document has a lot of very nice information including the S/4HANA Release Version Strategy

And the Upgrade Best Practice, there is another Upgrade document in the Toolbox which talks about how to do the Repair boxes etc

https://www.sap.com/documents/2020/06/94ca0995-9d7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

Thanks to @jmarquezmr for this excellent Blog on the SAP Activate Methodology for S/4HANA PCE Upgrades Upgrade your SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition fol... - SAP Community which introduces amongst other things the SAP Activate for RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition - Upgrade and that is a MUST read as well as the rest of the doco in this section including the Best Practices document...

S/4HANA 2023 Activate Roadmap Documents:

Functional Review Workshop for System Upgrade

Technical Review Workshop for System Upgrade

Embrace Agility and Upgrade for Success

Embrace agility and upgrade for success

Since S/4HANA 2023 Releases are delivered every 2 years...

Release Strategy for S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition - every two years 2 years

Regarding SAP S/4HANA PCE Maintenance Strategy and Version Roadmap and Release Strategy the SAP RISE Handbook has some nice descriptions and pictures

Onboarding Handbook .pdf

And the respective OSS Note: 2269324 - Compatibility Scope Matrix for SAP S/4HANA - SAP for Me

And the Learning Journey for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition | SAP Learning

From the same document, What are Compatibility Packs ?

Call to Action for S/4HANA Customers - Compatibility Packs

Presentation Title

Compatibility Packs - The Way Forward...

PowerPoint Presentation

3016524 - RISE with SAP S/4HANA, private cloud edition: Information about the release and maintenance strategy - SAP for Me

sap-release-and-maintenance-strategy-new.pdf

The SAP Platform Product Availability Matrix Maintenance

3061124 - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition - Release Information - SAP for Me

3017596 - RISE with SAP S/4HANA, private cloud edition and SAP ERP, private cloud edition: Information about maintenance availability - SAP for Me

1928533 - SAP Applications on Microsoft Azure: Supported Products and Azure VM types - SAP for Me

3016445 - SAP ERP, private cloud edition: Information about the release and maintenance strategy - SAP for Me

Software Center - SAP for Me - here you can see the verions

2900388 - SAP S/4HANA maintenance commitment until 2040 - SAP for Me

Release Cycles in SAP S/4HANA | SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Maintenance Phases

https://support.sap.com/en/release-upgrade-maintenance/maintenance-information/maintenance-strategy/maintenance-phases.html?anchorId=section_1521753191

S/4HANA Cloud Safe Keeper Service

https://support.sap.com/en/release-upgrade-maintenance/maintenance-information/maintenance-strategy/safekeeper-service.html

3424346 - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Safekeeper - Description of maintenance-related service elements
https://me.sap.com/notes/3424346

Compatibility Packs

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/release-upgrade-maintenance/maintenance-information/maintenance-strategy/maintenance-phases/compa-pack.pdf

Customer Specific Maintenance

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/release-upgrade-maintenance/maintenance-information/maintenance-strategy/maintenance-phases/cu-cust-spec-maint-en.pdf

New SAP S/4HANA Release & Maintenance Strategy | SAP News

What's New Viewer - SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition | SAP Help Portal

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition | SAP Help Portal

This document is also a must read because it really goes in to the details of executing the upgrade including for example setting up the Repair box(es) and the Dual Line Landscape...

UPGR_PE2023.pdf

This is a very useful document for helping with planning S/4HANA Upgrades... Upgrading SAP S/4HANA - Why, How, and Best Practices

The document is 180 slides !!! make sure to read the whole thing, here are a few of the slides, the document covers so much diverse information you need to read the whole thing..

Define your Business Strategy for your Upgrade

Responsibilities during an S/4HANA RISE Private Cloud Edition PCE Upgrade

S/4HANA Release Strategy 2023 2025

Partner AddOns and S/4HANA on RISE Upgrades Considerations

3418615 - SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition : Partner Products compatible with S/4HANA 2023 - SAP for Me

Manage the Impact of a Technical and Functional Upgrade on Fiori Apps

Key Considerations when Planning an Upgrade

Always check System Sizing as part of an Upgrade

Check Cyber Security Authentication Requirements changes

And continue by making sure to read the whole document, it is 180 pages !!! Upgrading SAP S/4HANA - Why, How, and Best Practices

HANA Studio, HANA Cockpit, on SAP RISE you don't have the SAP HANA Studio or the SAP HANA Cockpit, what you do have though is the DBA Cockpit where you can still do a lot of things

DBA Cockpit for SAP HANA | SAP Help Portal

1969700 - SQL Statement Collection for SAP HANA - SAP for Me

SAP Authorization Objects and SAP Roles for SQL Editor | SAP Help Portal

3169613 - Accessing SAP HANA Database of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition - SAP for Me

Pay attention to the Roles and Responsibilities between you and SAP to understand what SAP will do with HANA and what you will do with HANA on RISE, as a rule of thumb if it needs command line access then you cannot do it on RISE

https://assets.cdn.sap.com/agreements/product-policy/hec/roles-responsibilities/rise-with-sap-s4hana-cloud-private-edition-tailored-option-customer-data-center-option-english-v7-2024a.pdf

The SAP Services and Support Portfolio for S/4HANA PCE on RISE

https://www.sap.com/documents/2024/09/7cd3160b-d87e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html

Operations of Cloud Centric Hybrid Landscapes

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/managing-hybrid-solutions/hybrid-operations.pdf

Connecting a HEC System to an OnPremise Solution Manager

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/sap-solution-manager/sapsolutionmanager72/connecting-hec-system-to-on-premise-solman-v2.0.pdf

Deployment Models by SAP on Hyperscalers

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/ccoe/sap-hyperscalers.html

S/4HANA 2023 Guides...

S/4HANA PCE 2023 Installation Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/6b11678926d3409bbfea8897cb34d10f/2023/en-US/INST_OP2023.pdf

S/4HANA PCE 2023 Conversion Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/2b87656c4eee4284a5eb8976c0fe88fc/2023/en-US/CONV_OP2023.pdf

S/4HANA PCE 2023 Upgrade Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/49908826699d4fcab6fe550bed34ac8f/2023/en-US/UPGR_PE2023.pdf

S/4HANA PCE 2023 Security Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/d7c2c95f2ed2402c9efa2f58f7c233ec/2023/en-US/SEC_OP2023.pdf

S/4HANA PCE 2023 Simplification Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/c34b5ef72430484cb4d8895d5edd12af/2023/en-US/SIMPL_OP2023.pdf

S/4HANA PCE 2023 Custom Code Migration Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/9dcbc5e47ba54a5cbb509afaa49dd5a1/2023.002/en-US/CustomCodeMigration_EndToEnd.pdf

S/4HANA PCE 2023 Data Migration Guide

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/29193bf0ebdd4583930b2176cb993268/a4d4119a2cc9448a98e5d17e6dd0eac4.html

Data Migration | SAP Help Portal

Upgrade Guide SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition PCE 2023

UPGR_PE2023.pdf

Administration Guide to Implementation of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 with SAP
Best Practices

AdminGuideS4HANAImpl_HELP_EN.pdf

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, this is the 2023 version and it is an excellent document, and will be elaborated here...

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Migrate your Data to SAP S/4HANA

SAP ECS CAS Cloud Application Services Functional Application Management:

sap-cloud-application-services---functional-application-management-english-v8-2024.pdf

RISE with SAP System Transition Workbench, this is used for used for migration of customer systems to SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) in context of RISE.

3462243 - RISE with SAP System Transition Workbench - SAP for Me

Section 2] SAP ECS Enterprise Cloud Services

The SAP ECS Team is your Partner for pretty much everything, they are like your Cloud/Unix/Technical-Layer-Basis wrapped in to one, the majority of the really useful documentation on what the ECS Team do and how to work with them is listed below, but, you will need an S User and in some cases need to be a RISE Customer to access the documentation.

This section of the Toolbox is really aimed at Basis people and Unix Team / Cloud Hosting / Network people from the Customer side, and so, I am including here the most useful pictures from documents in the public domain to help with introductions as to how the networking to SAP ECS is working, how the hosting is working and how the security of it all is working.

The following picture is from the publicly available document Presentation Title

The picture helps us all to understand what the SAP ECS Team are doing, what parts of the stack they are responsible for:

This is a nice overview of SAP Cloud Application Services for RISE Customers, this document is publicly available: Presentation Title

The detailed documentation on ECS Services and Roles and Responsibilities is here in the SAP S/4HANA, and ERP Cloud Services Documentation :

SAP S/4HANA Cloud private edition - Service Specifications

And here some extracts from the documents...

ECS Advanced Security and Compliance SAP Cloud Application Services_advanced security & compliance_v08-2024 includes a very useful RACI, here's an extract

SAP ECS Cloud Application Services for Performance Management details and RACI

SAP CAS Performance Management_enGLOBAL.v08-2024

and there are many many more such Services and their respective RACI's

SAP CAS Business improvement foundation_enGLOBAL.v.08-2024

sap-cloud-application-services---functional-application-management-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-cloud-integration-testing-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-application-security-updates-service-description-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-test-management-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-data-management-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-regression-testing-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-release-version-upgrade-english-v8-2024.pdf

SAP CAS Data Volume Optimization ServiceDescription enGLOBAL.v.08-2024

sap-cloud-application-services-for-btp-core-operations-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-data-quality-optimization-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-service-for-core-performance-management-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-application-operations-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-service-advanced-monitoring-english-v8-2024.pdf

sap-cloud-application-services-for-application-monitoring-english-v8-2024.pdf

disaster-recovery-services-and-customer-invoked-failover-services-for-sap-hana-enterprise-cloud-services-and-s4hana-cloud-extended-edition-service-description-documentation-english-v7-2024.pdf

Keep in mind these are extra Services on top of the basic RISE agreement

below is the document for RISE PCE...

disaster-recovery-services-and-customer-invoked-failover-services-for-private-cloud-edition-services-and-tailored-option-services-service-description-documentation-english-v7-2024.pdf

RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition, tailored option Roles and Responsibilities

RISE with SAP S/4HANA PCE Private Cloud Edition with Customer Data Center Option

RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition, tailored option, customer data center option

and many more...

The Customer Data Center Option for RISE with SAP

RISE with SAP | Customer data center option

RISE with SAP, reach the Cloud without compromise... The Customer Data Center Option

The cloud without compromise: Explore the customer data center option of the RISE with SAP solution:

https://www.sap.com/docs/download/2022/06/1e771e5c-307e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.pdf

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition, Tailored Option for Customer Data Center

Roles and Responsibilities RISE with SAP S/4HANA PCE Private Cloud Edition Tailored Option Customer Data Center Option

RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition, tailored option, customer data center option

SAP S/4HANA Cloud private edition - Service Specifications

SAP ECS Locations of Data Centers

PDF Generator

And now some useful pictures on how the networking and HA and DR are working, these pictures are from the publicly available document 220818_rise_with_sap_sap_hana_cloud_private_edtition.pdf

The document contains many many useful diagrams explaining the dimensions of the infrastructure and network security, here are some examples...

And then here we have some great insights to the HA and DR setup... there are other documents, they are listed in this 1 Pager and you will need an S User for those, just search this list for HA and DR...

SAP S/4HANA, and ERP Cloud Services Documentation

This is all of the Services and Roles and Contracts and in all Languages

RISE with SAP S/4 HANA CLOUD, private edition and SAP ERP, PCE Roles and Responsibilities

SAP ECS RISE Roles and Responsibilities July 2024

RISE with SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition, tailored option, customer data center option

SAP ECS Business Continuity

https://help.sap.com/doc/05f121caa8b7424899a5d88512ea94de/ALL/en-US/SAP_ECS_Business_Continuity.pdf

SAP ECS Backups

https://help.sap.com/doc/4c8333b29baf4627b18a243237a876af/ALL/en-US/SAP_Enterprise_Cloud_Services_Backups.pdf

SAP ECS Failover Backup Service

https://assets.cdn.sap.com/agreements/product-policy/hec/roles-responsibilities/rise-with-sap-s4hana-cloud-private-edition-and-sap-erp-tailored-option-roles-and-responsibilities-english-v7-2023.pdf

ECS & RISE Service Requests Process Flows

https://help.sap.com/doc/3d58db33cac44d0a8fb6846f505525a2/ALL/en-US/SAP_ECS_Service_Process_Flows.pdf

2669783 - S-user authorizations required for the Private Cloud Service Request application

2669783 - S-user authorizations required for the Private Cloud Service Request application - SAP for Me - SAP for Me

2720477 - How to access Private Cloud Service Requests

2720477 - How to access Private Cloud Service Requests - SAP for Me - SAP for Me

3432011 - How to check the closed/confirmed Service Requests

3432011 - How to check the closed/confirmed Service Requests - SAP for Me - SAP for Me

3239384 - How to use Service Requests application

3239384 - How to use Service Requests application - SAP for Me - SAP for Me

RISE ECS Service Requests FAQ

https://me.sap.com/notes/0003380895

Dual Maintenance Dual Landscape Considerations

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/Dual%20Maintenance%20Considerations%20and%20Risks.pdf

Planning Landscape Changes (Best Practice Guide) Software Logistics

https://help.sap.com/docs/SUPPORT_CONTENT/sl/3362917490.html

ECS & RISE Early Watch Report for S/4

https://me.sap.com/app/ewaworkspace

Landscape Management Process - the Big Picture

https://support.sap.com/en/tools/software-logistics-tools/landscape-management-process.html?anchorId=section_175842419

ECS Services including System Extensions Capacity etc

https://assets.cdn.sap.com/agreements/product-use-and-support-terms/service-description-guides/rise-with-sap-s4hana-cloud-private-edition-service-description-guide-english-v10-2023.pdf

ECS CAS ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

https://assets.cdn.sap.com/agreements/product-policy/hec/roles-responsibilities/rise-with-sap-s4hana-cloud-private-edition-and-sap-erp-tailored-option-roles-and-responsibilities-english-v7-2023.pdf

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services The Customer’s Role in an SAP Enterprise Cloud Services Managed Environment

https://help.sap.com/doc/7a4296d457f24471ab9b642aa0a843a6/ALL/en-US/SAP_ECS_Customer_Role.pdf

ECS Cloud Services Catalogue

https://www.sap.com/about/agreements/policies/hec-services.html?sort=latest_desc

ECS Cloud Services Specifications

https://www.sap.com/about/agreements/policies/cloud-service-specifications.html?sort=latest_desc

HEC Extended Services full list

https://www.sap.com/germany/about/agreements/policies/hec-services.html?sort=latest_desc&tag=language:english

How SAP Run their DataCenters

https://www.sap.com/about/trust-center/data-center.html

Cloud Services Agreements List of Cloud Services

https://www.sap.com/about/trust-center/agreements/cloud/cloud-services.html?sort=latest_desc&tag=agreements:product-development-schedule/product-development-schedule

HANA Enterprise Cloud

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_HANA_ENTERPRISE_CLOUD

https://help.sap.com/doc/04708a0338ce4695b558f9b0c94c9c86/ALL/en-US/SAP_Help_Portal_Welcome.pdf

HEC Contact Email

SAP_HEC_Delivery_Help_Portal_Administration@sap.com

ECS System Handover Hostnames

https://help.sap.com/doc/fe22c9325a63449881605024cc4f9273/ALL/en-US/SAP_ECS_System_Handover_Hostnames.pdf

Technical OnBoarding Topics RISE ECS

https://help.sap.com/doc/7689b0e36b0e4c8f8adf9e7c1167b1d1/ALL/en-US/SAP_Technical_Onboarding_Topics_for_PCE.pdf

SAP ECS RISE Health Check Url Relative Path

/ping/publicicp/show_init_statepub.icp

ECS Workspace Url

https://me.sap.com/servicessupport/ecsworkspace

HEC ECS Landscape

https://me.sap.com/app/heclandscape

OnLine Help HEC Landscape

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/my-support/help-for-sap-support-applications/hec/02_system_landscape.html#standard-port-numbers

HEC Landscape

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/my-support/help-for-sap-support-applications/hec/02_system_landscape.html#standard-port-numbers

CAC Maintenance Windows

https://support.sap.com/en/my-support/systems-installations/cac/maintenance-windows.html

S/4HANA Upgrades Activate Methodology

https://go.support.sap.com/roadmapviewer/#/group/AAE80671-5087-430B-9AA7-8FBE881CF548/roadmapOverviewPage/MATS4HANA

Useful ECS related OSS Notes

3435333 - AL11 Usage, Restrictions, and Support for HEC ECS Managed Systems

2196476 - Information on standard Database software releases in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services

2534288 - Additional Information ECS Service Homogenous System Copy System Refresh (ABAP)

2538563 - SAP HEC users defined in Customer HANA Systems

2716655 - How To Use the Data Volume Management APP - Step by Step guide

2722532 - Hybrid Cloud offerings with cloud driven maintenance of on-premise parts

3016445 - SAP ERP, private cloud edition Information about the release and maintenance strategy

3016524 - RISE with SAP S4HANA, private cloud edition Information about the release and maintenance strategy

3017596 - RISE with SAP S4HANA, private cloud edition and SAP ERP, private cloud edition Information about maintenance availability

3059197 - SAP Readiness Check for SAP S4HANA upgrades

3089798 - ECS Brownfield setup pro-active checks

3517086 - Non-Security Parameters for ABAP systems in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) - SAP for Me

3480723 - Information on mandatory Security Parameters & Hardening requirements for SAP HANA databases in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) - SAP for Me

3358252 - How to share files or folders on ECS volumes - SAP for Me

3343395 - FAQ: How to connect Cloud Integration to T-code AL11 - SAP for Me

3169613 - Accessing SAP HANA Database of SAP S4HANA Cloud, private edition

3205486 - How to contact your HEC ECS RISE hosting partner

3250501 - Information on mandatory Security Parameters Hardening requirements for ABAP systems in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS)

this Note also contains details about Audit Log Retention Periods

Regarding Audit Logging on SAP RISE & ECS, this document gives overview of Audit Logging and Retention options

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Security and Compliance (ECS) a very useful document and worth reading... it also crosses over to S/4HANA RISE Short Distance DR Disaster Recovery and Long Distance DR setups

Check & ProductivityPlus Training

The following slides are from the presentation...

SAP S/4HANA RISE PCE ECS Secure Connectivity

SAP S/4HANA RISE PCE ECS Short Distance DR Disaster Recovery

SAP S/4HANA RISE PCE ECS Long Distance DR

SAP S/4HANA RISE PCE ECS Landscape

SAP S/4HANA RISE PCE ECS Secure Data Flow VNET Gateway LoadBalancer Firewall Region Zone Subnet

SAP S/4HANA RISE PCE ECS Managed Firewall Services

3291540 - Email received from SAP Enterprise Cloud Services with recommended action to open Service Request

3292465 - Connection between SAP solutions operated in a Hyperscaler environment and an On-Premises Oracle Database

3303172 - Activating a Super-User SAP Star

3319026 - Delivery of Maintenance Readiness Checks (MRC)

3328319 - FAQ SAP Business Transformation Center

3336611 - Information of standard service ports in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS)

3344326 - FAQ ECS Landscape

3345151 - How to Request a Load balancer in ECS

3351928 - FAQ ECS ABAP system user management including SAP star

3358252 - How to share files or folders on ECS volumes

3372118 - Introduction to the Release Upgrade Management Tool

3380895 - FAQ ECS Service Request

3381209 - Information on mandatory Security Parameters Hardening requirements for JAVA systems in SAP Enterprise Cloud Services

3385632 - Information about CGS Server and IEM Server (ECS)

2658835 - Hybrid Cloud Offering - Cloud Service containing on-premise applications

2722532 - Hybrid Cloud offerings with cloud driven maintenance of on-premise parts

3044106 - Inconsistent Memory Statistics

3410386 - How to manage SSL certificates in Enterprise Cloud Services - Guided Answer

3444865 - Partner Managed Cloud (PMC) Provider Responsibilities – RISE with SAP Private Cloud Edition

3468878 - How to connect an on-premise SAP ECC or S4 HANA ABAP system to SAP HANA Cloud through a proxy server

Section 2.1] Azure Useful Links

High-availability architecture and scenarios for SAP NetWeaver

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sap/workloads/sap-high-availability-architecture-scenarios

Azure Availability Zones Overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-zones-overview?tabs=azure-cli

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/explore/global-infrastructure/

Azure Glossary

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/glossary

Section 2.2] AWS Amazon Web Services Useful Links

RISE with SAP on AWS Cloud

RISE with SAP on AWS Cloud - General SAP Guides

RISE with SAP on AWS Cloud - Connectivity

Connectivity - General SAP Guides

RISE with SAP on AWS Cloud - Security

Security - General SAP Guides

RISE with SAP on AWS Cloud - Reliability

Reliability - General SAP Guides

RISE with SAP on AWS Cloud - performance Fiori and Extensions

Extensions - General SAP Guides

RISE with SAP on AWS (the whole everything pdf)

General SAP Guides - SAP Guides

Section 3] Security on SAP RISE and ECS

There is only one way to open the Security chapter of the 1 Pager and that is to begin with the....

The SAP Secure Operations Map: 230216_introduction_into_sap_security_optimization_services_portfolio.pdf

Some of this presentation is obviously positioning Services, but the presentation really helps to frame the most important areas of the subject, starting with the Pillars of SAP Landscape Security

SAP Trust Center Secure Data, Applications, and Data Centers | SAP Security

SAP Certification Compliance Certifications and Compliance | SAP Trust Center

And then the SAP Secure Operations Roadmap...

How to use the SAP Secure Operations Roadmap

Cyber Security Authentication Requirements SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition, taken from this document Upgrading SAP S/4HANA - Why, How, and Best Practices

SAP Security for Cloud Customers...

If you are a Learning Hub Customer, have a look at these courses:

ADM900_EN SAP Security Fundamentals

ADM900_EN SAP System Security Fundamentals

ADM940_EN ABAP AS Authorization Concept

For Security subjects on S/4HANA PCE on RISE you should start with this publicly available document: Check & ProductivityPlus Training

IT contains a wealth of information on Security and Compliance in RISE and ECS including shared responsibilities...

And then move on to this publicly available document 220818_rise_with_sap_sap_hana_cloud_private_edtition.pdf

It contains beautiful pictures and descriptions like these:

It goes through all of the domains of security including the networking with the hyperscalers and with many detailed pictures like this one..

A very important resource for SAP on RISE security subjects are the blogs written by SAP's Jana Subramanian @Jana_Cyber About Jana_Cyber - SAP Community in the SAP Community. A number of Jana's blogs are listed here, and there are more, so have a look in to Jana's blogs in the SAP Community.

This is another great one from Jana, RISE with SAP, S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition, Security and Compliance, it is first class just read it and digest the slides and information...

Check & ProductivityPlus Training

The two presentations that we open this section with are authored by Jana.

Introduction into the SAP Security Optimization Services Portfolio

230216_introduction_into_sap_security_optimization_services_portfolio.pdf

RISE with SAP: Comparing the Security of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Vs SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition

RISE with SAP: Comparing the Security of SAP S/4HA... - SAP Community

RISE with SAP: Multi-layer Defense in Depth Architecture of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition

RISE with SAP: Multi-layer Defense in Depth Archit... - SAP Community

DNS integration with SAP RISE in multi-cloud environment series guide - Azure

DNS integration with SAP RISE in multi-cloud envir... - SAP Community

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition : Secure Cloud Connectivity

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition : Sec... - SAP Community

SAP ETD Enterprise Thread Detection

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Short Presentation Title

Feature Scope Description for Enterprise Threat Detection

Securing your transformation to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition (RISE with SAP)

Securing your transformation to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition

Recommended Security Configurations for SAP Cloud Products

https://www.sap.com/documents/2022/12/7616adbb-547e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html

Identity LifeCycle in SAP Cloud Products

https://www.sap.com/documents/2018/05/38ce7d25-067d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

Securing RISE with SAP

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/securing-rise-with-sap/ba-p/13519419

RISE with SAP: Multi-layer Defense in Depth Architecture of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition

https://community.sap.com/t5/financial-management-blogs-by-sap/rise-with-sap-multi-layer-defense-in-depth-architecture-of-sap-s-4hana/ba-p/13517826

RISE with SAP: ‘Defense in Depth’ Security Architecture with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition

https://community.sap.com/t5/enterprise-resource-planning-blogs-by-sap/rise-with-sap-defense-in-depth-security-architecture-with-sap-s-4hana-cloud/ba-p/13529891

SAP ECS RISE SOC 2 (ISAE 3000) Reports

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services SOC 2 Audit Report 2024 H1

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services SOC 2 Bridge Letter Package

RISE with SAP: Adopting to Zero Trust Architecture Principles with SAP Cloud Services

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/rise-with-sap-adopting-to-zero-trust-architecture-principles-with-sap-cloud/ba-p/13544003

RISE Cyber Security Excellent Blog

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/rise-with-sap-s-4hana-cloud-private-edition-cybersecurity-faq-explained/ba-p/13562875

SAP SAPNS2 CAS Cloud Application Services Security Brief

CAS_Solution-Brief_External.pdf

SAP National Security Services

Application-Management_Datasheet_SAP-NS2-002-1.pdf

SAP NS2 National Security Services Overview

SAP NS2 National Security Services Secure Cloud Portfolio

SAP NS2 National Security Services Overview - Why SAP NS2 ?

SAP Security Research

SAP Security White Papers

Security Whitepapers

How SAP Protects Data

https://www.sap.com/about/trust-center/security.html

SAP Security Baseline - this is THE MOST IMPORTANT Note !

2253549 - The SAP Security Baseline Template https://me.sap.com/notes/2253549/E

The Role of the SAP Security Baseline Template...

SAP Secure Logon Login Service and SAP Single Sign On guides...

SAP Secure Login Service for SAP GUI

SecureLoginForSAPSSO3.0_UACP.pdf

SAP Secure Login Service for SAP GUI - Solution Overview

SAPSSO30MasterGuide_uacp.pdf

SAP Single Sign-On | SAP Help Portal

SecureLoginForSAPSSO3.0_UACP.pdf

Security Token Service for SAP Single Sign-On and SAP Identity Management

Identity Provider for SAP Single Sign-On and SAP Identity Management

One-TimePasswordAuthentication_UACP.pdf

ABAP Security and Identity Management at SAP

https://help.sap.com/docs/SUPPORT_CONTENT/security/3362974716.html

Secure Configuration Monitoring of SAP Cloud Services

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

SAP Cloud Identity Services Best Practices

Presentation Title

Tier recommendations for Identity Access Management

Tier recommendations Identity Access Management Dev Test Prod

Multi Region Landscapes Identity Access Management

Reference Architecture for SAP Cloud Security

SAP Discovery Center - Reference Architectures

SAP Discovery Center Architecture - Cloud leading authentication

SAP Discovery Center Architecture - Cloud leading Identity Lifecycle

SAP Discovery Center Architecture - Cloud leading identity lifecycle authorizations

SAP BTP Cloud Identity and Security Services

SAP Cloud Identity Services - Identity Authentication

SAP Cloud Identity Services - Identity Authorisation

SAP Cloud Identity Services - Identity Provisioning

SAP XSUAA

SAP Authorisation and Trust Management Service

SAP BTP Principle Propagation

SAP Connectivity and Destination Service

SAP Cloud Connector

Since we're now on the Cloud Connector let's dig in a little deeper on that...

The following pictures are from a presentation on BTP API Management, the Cloud Connector section, the subject of the Cloud Connector remains the same though, and these pictures offer a very good overview of what it is doing and why it is there and how it works, the pictures are not the newest, but the principles remain the same, and the presentation also gives a useful overview of how to setup the Cloud Connector...

Short Presentation Title

Installing and Configuring the SAP BTP Cloud Connector:

Installing and Configuring SAP Cloud Connector | SAP Help Portal

SAP BTP Connectivity

Initial Configuration | SAP Help Portal

There is very useful Cloud Connector documentation here, everything from setting it up to the processes for bringing new functionality to Production

Process Guidelines for Hybrid Scenarios | SAP Help Portal

SAP solutions for cyber security and data protection

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Discovery Center, Connect S/4HANA with Cloud Connector

SAP Discovery Center Mission Public Card - Connect S/4HANA system using Cloud Connector

Learning Journey, Connecting BTP and OnPremise Systems using Cloud Connector

Connecting SAP BTP and On-Premise Systems using the Cloud Connector | SAP Learning

SAP BTP Connectivity Security Guidelines

Security Guidelines | SAP Help Portal

SAP Cloud Security Framework Theory and Practice

3 marko

The SAP Enterprise Support Security Value Maps Interpretation and Use of SAP’s Secure Operations Map

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – Platform Security

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition Security and Compliance

Check & ProductivityPlus Training

Keeping Track of System Security with SAP EarlyWatch Alert Workspace

The Data-Driven Collaboration Platform SAP EarlyWatch Alert Workspace

Data Protection in SAP S/4HANA Processing and SafeGuards

240418_data_protection_in_sap_s4hana.pdf

Managed Security Service Current Threats in Cloud environments

Managed Security Services across Platform

Security for the Internet of Things: Strategy and Road Map

(This is an old one but a good one, the concepts are useful)

PowerPoint-Präsentation

This is a fantastic document, The 5 Pillars of SAP Governance, Compliance, and Risk GRC

240620_introducing_the_new_5_pillars_of_sap_governance_risk_and_compliance.pdf

The Challenges of Managing Governance, Risk and Compliance

Capabilities, and Advantages of Modern Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Capabilities, and Advantages of Modern Governance, Risk, and Compliance, continued...

Governance, Risk, and Compliance capabilities from SAP

Governance, Risk, and Compliance capabilities from SAP continued,

SAP's Portfolio

SAP Solutions for GRC

Section 4] Data Migration and Transition

If you are a Learning Hub Customer, have a look at this course:

S4D445_EN_Col23 Data Migration Using The SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit

The following picture is from this document which is publicly available: Mapping your journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition : A practical guide for senior IT leadership

Don't let Data stop your Journey to S/4HANA - Data Management Landscape Transformation - an excellent document well worth a read

20230328_sap_dmlt.pdf

Consider your options for moving to S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA MOVEMENT – Three Take Away

Best Practices - Data Volume Management During an S/4HANA Conversion

DMV_CONV.pdf

SAP Blue Field Selective Data Transition

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/support-services/data-management-landscape-transformation/selective-data-transition-engagement.html?anchorId=section_1492374967

What Selective Data Transition Offers:

These pictures are from this document which is publicly available: Mapping your journey to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition : A practical guide for senior IT leadership

Data Migration S/4HA

https://me.sap.com/processnavigator/SolS/EARL_SolS-055/2022/SolP/2Q2?region=US

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/29193bf0ebdd4583930b2176cb993268/a4d4119a2cc9448a98e5d17e6dd0eac4.html

S/4HANA Data Migration

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/29193bf0ebdd4583930b2176cb993268/a4d4119a2cc9448a98e5d17e6dd0eac4.html

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, this is the 2023 version and it is an excellent document, and will be elaborated here...

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Migrate your Data to SAP S/4HANA

Another excellent document which needs to be read and digested and elaborated...

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Development News SAP S/4HANA 2023

And another one S/4HANA Private Edition Migration Cockpit - Cookbook - this presentation is 94 slides of "excellence" and a must read....

SAP S/4HANA migration cockpit - Cookbook - Private Edition

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Deep Dive LTMOM for Staging

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Deep Dive LTMOM for Staging - OP2021 and higher

Migrate to SAP S/4HANA with a reliable and confident data transition

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sa...

RISE with SAP - Migrate your ERP system to the cloud – and keep on innovating

Presentation Title

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Migrate your Data to SAP S/4HANA

This document also contains an amazing amount of detailed pictures which need to be elaborated here....

https://www.sap.com/docs/download/2017/07/26113ac0-c47c-0010-82c7-eda71af511fa.pdf

Data Migration Tools for the Move to S/4HANA

https://www.sap.com/documents/2021/03/d2e82fec-d27d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

The next slide is really useful because it explains what MC and RDM mean. There is a lot of documentation which just talks about MC and RDM without explaining what they mean, now we know....

MC - SAP Migration Cockpit

RDM - Rapid Data Migration with SAP Data Services

LSRM - ok we all know that Legacy System Migration Workbench

SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit - Migrate your Data to SAP S/4HANA S/4HANA 2023

This is an excellent document

https://www.sap.com/documents/2017/07/26113ac0-c47c-0010-82c7-eda71af511fa.html

https://help.sap.com/docs/DATAMIG_S4HANA/ffaed9ee977247e689972af70212149e/aa522d5e44934907a3530e68b5cb1c2f.html

https://help.sap.com/docs/DATAMIG_S4HANA/ffaed9ee977247e689972af70212149e/9d23ad19c1c048feb7604a3bf7244e9a.html

S/4HANA Custom Code Migration Guide

Another very useful guide.... Custom Code Migration for System Conversion:

Custom Code Migration Process

Custom Code Migration in S/4HANA Conversion Options:

CustomCodeMigration_EndToEnd.pdf

Useful S/4HANA Data Migration OSS Notes

2483494 - How to open the Migration Cockpit in a SAP S4HANA on-premise system

2515151 - SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit Migration objects or fields which you want to migrate cannot be found

2537549 - Collective SAP Note and FAQ for SAP S4HANA Migration cockpit - File Staging on premise S4CORE

2538700 - Collective SAP Note and FAQ for SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit - File Staging Cloud SAPSCORE

2609932 - How to access Migration Objects Documentation in S4HANA Migration Cockpit

2620588 - How to use Migration Objects template for Data Migration Cockpit

2650201 - Migration Cockpit How to create update data records

2663579 - Migration Cockpit Validation of data after migration

2681413 - FAQ for SAP S4HANA Data Migration Status App

2684818 - SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit usage for mass processing data or as interface

2726010 - Migration Cockpit Support of custom fields (in-App extensibility key-user extensibility)

2733253 - FAQ for SAP S4HANA migration cockpit Migration approach Transfer Migrate data using staging tables

2754615 - SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit Information about Posting Date Migration Key Date

2768127 - Data Services repository migration steps - SAP Data Services

2818267 - Data Volume Management during migration to SAP S4HANA Archiving

2838747 - Migration Object dependencies

2878945 - SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit Parallelization of XML CSV file loads

2903506 - How to assign a contact person as sales partner using migration cockpit

2907976 - Silent Data Migration (SDMI) - FAQ

2937069 - SAP HANA Cloud Migration FAQ

2943035 - Migration of historical balances to SAP S4HANA and SAP S4HANA Cloud Public Edition

2953530 - Data Load via HANA native tables

2988692 - SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit – Information about different versions

3018442 - Selective Data Transition and Selective Data Transition Engagement

3023051 - Migrate your Data App – Migration Cockpit Warning message Another activity is in process

3065607 - Performance tips tricks for SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit Migrate Data Using Staging Tables

3075638 - SAP S4HANA Cloud Integration with SAP Launchpad Service - Restrictions

3113391 - Reasons why creation of a Development Namespace is not possible - SAP for Me

3209755 - SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit (Direct Transfer) – System Compatibility Information

3245580 - How to find the required Authorization Object for each Migration Object - Migration Cockpit

3386136 - SAP S4HANA Migration Cockpit CSV template file size limits

3390805 - How to manage usr sap trans during BrownField migration

3396021 - SAP RISE customer needs to limit data so as not to exceed the 50GB limit in Process Insights

3405369 - Information required for CI-DS Agent migration to RISE

3462243 - RISE with SAP System Transition Workbench

3496181 - How to transport deleted migration objects

3508867 - Legacy System Migration Workbench - FAQs

3496181 - How to transport deleted migration objects

3508867 - Legacy System Migration Workbench - FAQs

Section 5] SAP BTP General

SAP Business Technology Platform BTP is a massive Platform, and in my opinion will be bigger and more important than the S/4HANA for SAP Customers in the future. The BTP is a technology enabler containing all kinds of capabilities.

Here is the SAP BTP Strategy WhitePaper for 2025 onwards SAP Business Technology Platform: The Innovation Engine for Your SAP Applications

The first thing I am going to comment on, since this is a 1 Pager for SAP Technology Architects is the Technical Architecture of the BTP.

Ok, but first, we need to include this one...

SAP Business Technology Platform: The Innovation Engine for Your SAP Applications - strategy 2025

SAP Business Technology Platform: The Innovation Engine for Your SAP Applications

The BTP is extremely rich and flexible in how it can be set up and configured, and this can be a good thing and a bad thing, the biggest challenge is, making foundation layer mistakes which cost time and money to correct in the future.

For me to try show how complex the BTP is, we will first look at SAP's Future Ready Enterprise Framework, this is an approach to modularising maturity with the BTP and leading the Customer on a journey to BTP Architecture Excellence.

You've heard of a SAP Customer Center of Excellence, there is now a concept of SAP BTP Center of Excellence, this shows how complex and rich this subject is.

There is a beautiful publicly available presentation here on the Future Ready Enterprise and the SAP BTP Future Ready Enterprise Unlock and Maximize the value of BTP

With wonderful slides like these...

You don't necessarily need to engage SAP's Services on this, at least by studying and digesting the picture you can think about how those dimensions apply to your Organisation and fill in the boxes in terms of the objectives and vision of your Organisation

These slides are a humbling reminder of how vast the BTP is, and how getting a decent maturity level in the BTP will help your Organisation achieve its goals

So now we know, the BTP is big, and it's complex, and it needs proper planning and architecting if we are going to get the most from it.

For the first few years the SAP Cloud Platform was mainly SAP Cloud Platform Integration and a lot of people slipped in to a bad habit of associating the BTP with Integration capability, we it's a lot more than that and we all need to appreciate that.

The following document is another useful introduction to the SAP Future Ready Enterprise Framework:

Presentation Title

The following picture is here to show us just how complex the BTP is, and let us all reflect on where our Company's maturity level is with the BTP:

Just spend some time to study that table and think about where your Organisation's maturity level is and whether or not it would be a good investment to buy some BTP Training and Services from SAP. I am not trying to sell Services here, but I have learned the hard way that an investment in knowledge can save significant amounts in the future.

This picture which is from the same deck is to really show us what a journey BTP maturity is...

There is a very nice blog by @Pedro_Souza169 on the same subject here The Future-Ready Enterprise: A Framework for SAP B... - SAP Community

The SAP Learning Journey - Administering the SAP BTP - SAP BTP Administration

Administrating SAP Business Technology Platform

The next step for the SAP Technology Architect is to read the BTP Admin Guide SAP BTP Administrator's Guide | SAP Help Portal https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/btp-admin-guide/btp-admin-guide and read the section on SetUp and Plan Set Up and Plan | SAP Help Portal the whole section including the Governance Model. The BTP Admin Guide as a pdf.. SAP_Cloud_Platform.pdf

SAP BTP Platform Configuration Guide

PlatformConfiguration.pdf

SAP BTP Common Concepts and Strategic Directio

Presentation Title

BTP Configuration Guide Entitlement Management EMS Onboarding Guide_2311.pdf

The Fastest Way to Adopt The SAP BTP Business Technology Platform Title Goes Here and Here and Here

SAP BTP Data Management in a Nutshell Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Then read the section Setting up your Account Model Setting Up Your Account Model | SAP Help Portal

The biggest lesson I can bring is, when architecting the BTP from a clean sheet of paper, one of the most important foundation steps is to correctly design the Stages / Directories / Sub-Accounts and Entitlements, the setting up of the Account Model, get this wrong and you will pay for it later.

BTP Domains / Stages / Directories / Sub-Accounts

Domain refers to the Capability, eg Cloud Integration, Work Zone, Build Process Automation

Stages refers to the type of environment, eg Dev, Test, Quality, UAT, Prod

Directory refers to the structuring elements for Sub-Accounts

Sub-Account let's you further structure according to your requirements

My recomendation is go for an Account Model with Directories and Sub-Accounts Account Model With Directories and Subaccounts | SAP Help Portal

Account Model | SAP Help Portal

The reason for this is:

You then have the possibility for all kinds of template BTP layouts according to the demands of your Organisation and at the same time you can leverage all of the benefits described above

And then as already described you profit from being able to leverage Authorisation and Entitlement features per Directory / BTP Domain

Setting Up Your Account Model | SAP Help Portal

To recap setting up the Account Model is probably the most important BTP Technical Architecture decision !

This is the Future Ready Enterprise document which is referred to in the RISE Onboarding Handbook FRE Best Practice Guide for RISE Transformation_Private Cloud.pdf

Next step go to the SAP Discovery Center and look at the BTP OnBoarding material SAP Discovery Center Mission Public Card - Live and OnDemand Webinars about SAP BTP Onboarding

And then go to the SAP BTP OnBoarding center SAP Business Technology Platform General Concepts

After doing all of this preparation, the next step is to Architect and Administer your BTP, and for that the next step is to read the SAP BTP Administrator's Guide SAP BTP Administrator's Guide | SAP Help Portal

For SAP Build and all of the Services around it have a look at this presentation

2023_sap_build_webinar_april_4.pdf

For the BTP another very good place to start is here: Future Ready Best Practice Guide for RISE Transformation_Private Cloud.pdf Reference Architecture pictures recommending which BTP Services to have and where and why depending upon the type of move to S/4HANA on RISE that you are doing

and very nice BTP Services descriptions like this one for Security and Identity Management in the BTP

and then you can move on the following documents...

A BTP Overview

Presentation Title

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Fiori UX

230504_a_hitchhikers_guide_to_sap_fiori_ux.pdf

This document is really worth reading, it's two years old and could do with being brought up to date, but nevertheless it explains the concepts and especially where to use what and why, for example Build WorkZone Standard and Advanced

the document goes into fine detail on Key User extensions etc

and then it points to this document, which is up to date...

SAP Fiori Deployment Options and System Landscape Recommendations

the document has got very good explanations of Fiori versions and S/4HANA versions and combinations and Landscape set up examples

and then that document points to this one Extend SAP S/4HANA in the cloud and on premise with ABAP based extensions

and this document goes into great detail about how to do extensions and what possibilities there are for extensions and when to use which, and much much more...

3489432 - Question Inquiry regarding SAP Forms service by Adobe usage for RISE with SAP

SAP Cloud BTP Metrics Usage Costs Pricing

https://support.sap.com/en/my-support/systems-installations/system-measurement/cloud-saas-application-usage.html?anchorId=section

BTP Cockpit

https://emea.cockpit.btp.cloud.sap

BTP Services Pricelist

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/price-list/list.cpea.SE.html

Welcome to the SAP Discovery Center

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/index.html

SAP BTP Future Ready Enterprise

Accelerate your journey to S/4HANA with SAP Business Technology Platform Business drivers to use SAP S/4HANA with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)

Simplify App Development using SAP’s Extension Suite

SAP Integration Suite Powering the Intelligent Enterprise

SAP BTP in GxP environments for Life Sciences

sap-business-technology-platform-in-gxp-environments.pdf

BTP Security Shared Responsibility between you and SAP

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/best-practices/shared-responsibility-model-between-you-and-sap

SAP BTP Security and Compliance

https://d.dam.sap.com/m/4vaWes7/SAP%20BTP%20Security%20and%20Compliance%20June%202024%20-%20External%20Version.pdf?inline=true

SAP BTP Security Recommendations

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-btp-security-recommendations-c8a9bb59fe624f0981efa0eff2497d7d/sap-btp-security-recommendations

Security Events Logged in Cloud Foundry BTP

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/security-events-logged-by-cf-services

BTP Admin Guide

https://help.sap.com/doc/bd6250c40c9c4c5391e3009a6f26dc3b/Cloud/en-US/SAP_Cloud_Platform.pdf

SAP BTP Practitioners Forum

https://events.sap.com/2024-1231-sap-btp-practitioners-webinar-global/en/home

How to Integrate SAP Build Process Automation for Workflow and Process Visualization

SAP BTP Garage

https://events.sap.com/2024-12-31-sap-ie-btp-garage2024-webinar-series/en/home

SAP BTP Platform Release Navigator

Release Navigator for SAP Business Technology Platform

https://readiness-at-scale.enable-now.cloud.sap/pub/20230621_ras/index.html?show=book!BO_EC8330B09B97CDBE#slide!SL_120BDFE08096029D

SAP AI Unit Estimator

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/ai-estimator/

SAP XM eXperience Management Transformation

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1019%20Transformation%20XM_Procedures.pptx

BTP Guided Answers

2700553 - SAP Business Technology Platform - Guided Answers

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/2065/actions/26547?version=current

DevOps with SAP BTP

https://help.sap.com/docs/DEVOPS_OVERVIEW

BTP Everything including Governance and Operating Model

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/sap-business-technology-platform

BTP Security

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-btp-security-recommendations-c8a9bb59fe624f0981efa0eff2497d7d/sap-btp-security-recommendations

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/btp-security

SAP BTP Best Practices

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/best-practices/best-practices-for-sap-btp

ABAP System Sizing

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/abap-system-sizing

Best Practices BTP

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/best-practices/best-practices-for-sap-btp

BTP DEVOPS

https://help.sap.com/docs/DEVOPS_OVERVIEW

BTP Latest Innovations information

https://dam.sap.com/mac/app/p/pdf/asset/preview/1nJkgtY?ltr=a&rc=10&doi=SAP1126991

BTP Discovery Center Services Overview

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/viewServices

SAP Enterprise Architecture Community

https://community.sap.com/t5/enterprise-architecture/gh-p/Enterprise-Architecture

BTP Solution Architecture Diagram Repository

https://sap.github.io/btp-solution-diagrams/

SAPBTP Discovery Center

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/index.html

SAP BTP Onboarding Resources Center

https://support.sap.com/en/product/onboarding-resource-center/business-technology-platform.html

Upgrading the SAPUI5 SAP UI5 Libraries, a very important routine activity...

2346367 - How to upgrade the SAPUI5 library in ABAP | SAP Knowledge Base Article

3155948 - ABAP SAPUI5 patch version update - SAP for Me

2282103 - How to check the version of SAPUI5 you have installed - SAP for Me

2118663 - Install a patch for SAPUI5 runtime libraries - SAP for Me

BTP Guidance Framework

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/guidance-framework/what-is-sap-btp-guidance-framework

SAP BTP API Center

https://api.sap.com/products/SAPCloudPlatform/overview

SAP BTP Developers Resources

https://developers.sap.com/

SAP BTP Developers Guides

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/btp-developers-guide/btp-developers-guide

SAP BTP Guidance Framework

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/guidance-framework/what-is-sap-btp-guidance-framework

SAP BTP Fundamentals

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/resources.html?sort=title_asc&tab=fundamentals

SAP BTP Developer Tools

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/developer-tools.html

SAP BTP Automation Tools

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/enterprise-automation.html

SAP BTP AI Tools

https://www.sap.com/products/artificial-intelligence/business-technology-platform.html

SAP BTP Release Navigator

https://readiness-at-scale.enable-now.cloud.sap/pub/20230621_ras/index.html?library=library.txt&show=book!BO_EC8330B09B97CDBE#slide!SL_120BDFE08096029D

SAP BTP Roadmaps

https://roadmaps.sap.com/board?PRODUCT=42F2E964FAAF1EDA9FF753E17F3000E5&range=CURRENT-LAST#Q4%202024

SAP BTP Product Page

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform.html

SAP BTP Need to Know links

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/1nJkgtY/Need2Know%20-%20Important%20Links%20about%20SAP%20Business%20Technology%20Platform.pdf?rc=10

SAP Learning for BTP

https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/administrating-sap-business-technology-platform

S/4HANA Federation to SAP BTP

https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/cp-launchpad-federation-prepares4hana..html

BTP Guided Answers

2700553 - SAP Business Technology Platform - Guided Answers

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/2065/actions/26547?version=current

CALM Audit Logging BTP Guided Answers

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/3642/actions/59095

SAP BTP Guidance Framework

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/guidance-framework/what-is-sap-btp-guidance-framework

SAP Extension Methodology for evaluating and processing demands:

SAP Application Extension Methodology Overview | SAP Help Portal

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/sap-application-extension-methodology/sap-application-extension-methodology-overview

and we use the

SAP Extension Architecture Guide What is the Extension Architecture Guide? | SAP Help Portal

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/extension-architecture-guide/what-is-extension-architecture-guide

SAP Next Gen Products and Documentation

https://www.sap.com/events/data-unleashed.html

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/announcing-general-availability-of-sap-build-code-speed-up-development-with/ba-p/13646073

SAP BTP Guidance Framework

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/guidance-framework/what-is-sap-btp-guidance-framework

SAP Application Extension Methodology

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/sap-application-extension-methodology/sap-application-extension-methodology-overview

SAP BTP Extension Architecture Guide

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/extension-architecture-guide/what-is-extension-architecture-guide

Integration Architecture Guide for Cloud and Hybrid Landscapes Based on SAP® Integration Solution Advisory Methodology

https://www.sap.com/documents/2020/11/400ae14b-bf7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

SAP BTP Architecture Catalog

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/refArchCatalog/

SAP BTP Reference Architecture OpenAI

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/refArchDetail/ref-arch-open-ai

SAP BTP Solution Architecture Diagrams

https://sap.github.io/btp-solution-diagrams/

SAP BTP Solution Architecture Starter Kits

https://github.com/SAP/btp-solution-diagrams/tree/main/assets/all-in-one-starter-kits

https://sap.github.io/btp-solution-diagrams/docs/solution_diagr_intro/big_picture/

SAP Business Process Solution Diagrams

https://hub.sap.com/allprocess

https://hub.sap.com/dfd/SP1C2-DFDMasterDataFlows

SAPUI5 BTP Workzone CDM Common Data Model

https://ui5.sap.com/1.108.0/resources/sap/ushell_abap/bootstrap/appruntime-min-1.js

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/removing-outdated-ui5-versions-from-ui5-cdn/ba-p/13481293

Fiori Apps Library

https://fioriappslibrary.hana.ondemand.com/sap/fix/externalViewer/

Monitoring Service for SAP BTP

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/serviceCatalog/monitoring-service?tab=feature&service_plan=default&region=all&commercialModel=cpea

https://help.sap.com/doc/35fe1fd503ec45378bf4f71b7d5f82b5/Cloud/en-US/SAP_BTP_FSD_Neo.pdf

SAP BTP Multi-Bank Connectivity MBC Configuration Guide

f323d63678a747ccbcb3356faf958ffd.pdf

BTP ABAP uses SAP HANA Cloud

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-abap-environment/abap-environment/abap-environment

BTP Security Useful Links

https://pages.community.sap.com/topics/btp-security

Continuous Integration and Delivery by SAP

https://help.sap.com/docs/CICD_OVERVIEW

SAP BTP Developers Guide

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/btp-developers-guide/what-is-btp-developers-guide

DEVOPS with the BTP

https://help.sap.com/docs/DEVOPS_OVERVIEW

SAP BTP Developer's Guide

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/btp-developers-guide/what-is-btp-developers-guide

Integration Architecture Guide for Cloud and Hybrid Landscapes Based on SAP® Integration Solution Advisory Methodology

https://www.sap.com/documents/2020/11/400ae14b-bf7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html?locale=en-US

Extend SAP S/4HANA in the cloud and on premise with ABAP based extensions

https://www.sap.com/documents/2022/10/52e0cd9b-497e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html

Custom Extensions in SAP S/4HANA Implementations - A Practical Guide for Senior IT Leadership

https://www.sap.com/documents/2020/03/ceeea71f-8a7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

SAP Application Extension Methodology

https://help.sap.com/doc/87e18fdb75fd42f8aee59e3c76de7cd7/Cloud/en-US/sap.application.extension.methodology.pdf

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/sap-application-extension-methodology/sap-application-extension-methodology-overview

SAP BTP UseCases

https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/use-cases.html?sort=title_asc

ABAP Cloud - Technical Use Cases and Recommended Technologies

https://www.sap.com/documents/2023/05/74fc05e6-747e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html

Discover Business Processes for Faster Integration

https://hub.sap.com/allprocess

Reference Architectures

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/refArchCatalog/

What is the SAP BTP Guidance Framework?

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/guidance-framework/what-is-sap-btp-guidance-framework

Integration Architecture Guide for Cloud and Hybrid Landscapes Based on SAP® Integration Solution Advisory Methodology

https://www.sap.com/documents/2020/11/400ae14b-bf7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html?locale=en-US

SAP Application Extension Methodology

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/sap-application-extension-methodology/sap-application-extension-methodology-overview

Full Document

https://help.sap.com/doc/87e18fdb75fd42f8aee59e3c76de7cd7/Cloud/en-US/sap.application.extension.methodology.pdf

SAP BTP Security Recommendations

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-btp-security-recommendations-c8a9bb59fe624f0981efa0eff2497d7d/sap-btp-security-recommendations

SAP BTP Operating Model Governance etc

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/sap-business-technology-platform/operating-model-in-cloud-foundry-environment

Cloud Services Availability

https://www.sap.com/about/trust-center/cloud-service-status.html

BTP Identity Authentication Guided Procedure

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/2288/actions/29674

SAP BTP Private Link Service

https://help.sap.com/docs/private-link

SAP Guided Answers Decision Trees

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#

SAP BTP Decision Tree for Guided Answers

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/2065/actions/26547?version=current

Fiori Design Guidelines

https://experience.sap.com/fiori-design/

BTPDEVOPS

https://help.sap.com/docs/DEVOPS_OVERVIEW

SAP API Web Page

https://api.sap.com/api/OP_API_BUSINESS_PARTNER_SRV/overview

pay attention to the supported authentication methods

Best Practices for SAP BTP

https://help.sap.com/docs/btp/best-practices/best-practices-for-sap-btp

Private Network from SAP

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/serviceCatalog/private-link-service?region=all&service_plan=standard&commercialModel=cpea&tab=feature

Cloud Integration Automation Service

https://help.sap.com/docs/cloud-integration-automation/user-guide/overview

Build Workzone and S/4HANA

https://help.sap.com/doc/16e48a873c2f4b1587b55e3ffa1bff67/1maint/en-US/6b51f4d55acf42d6a7d4dd5f691014e2.pdf

Reference Architecture Build Work Zone

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/refArchDetail/ref-arch-sap-build-work-zone

Integration Guide Build Work Zone

https://help.sap.com/docs/CIAS%20FES%202020/ecb81b5bfce440ca8e7e7c9ad58fcf3a/98a3f0830f084aefb5ea75fb20959af5.html

SAP Event Driven Architecture White Paper Digital Library SAP EDA Extended Paper 101424 v7.pdf

The following "Universe of BTP in a Nutshell" documents are very very good, and well worth reading and using as reference documentation....

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – Platform Security

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – Platform Analytics

Presentation Title

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – Pro Code Development

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – SAP BTP Overview

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – Operations

Efficient DevOps with SAP BTP

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – Overview

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

SAP BTP Admin Guide

SAP_Cloud_Platform.pdf

Application Operations in the SAP BTP

230511_the_open_space_of_application_operations_cloud_app_sap_hana_cloud.pdf

SAP BTP Security Recommendations

SAP BTP Security Recommendations | SAP Help Portal

Efficient DevOps with the SAP BTP

Efficient DevOps with SAP BTP

Comparison SAP BTP Kyma RunTime and Cloud Foundry

SAP_Cloud_Platform_1.pdf

3543065 - Best Practices for Creating Support Users in Your BTP System

3543065 - Best Practices for Creating Support Users in Your BTP System - SAP for Me

BTP Logging

2637286 - How to collect Audit Logs for SAP BTP - SAP for Me

3320764 - How a customer can obtain detailed SAP BTP audit logs - SAP for Me

3473519 - How the encryption for SAP BTP Audit Logs works? - SAP for Me

3430822 - Audit Logging in the Cloud Foundry Environment: Guided Answers - SAP for Me

3420371 - Can BTP Audit Log retention period be longer than 90 days? - SAP for Me

3533005 - What's the default retention period for SAP Cloud Logging? - SAP for Me

2637286 - How to collect Audit Logs for SAP BTP - SAP for Me

3557260 - Information about the deprecation of SAP Application Logging Service - SAP for Me

From Application Logging to Cloud Logging: Service... - SAP Community

3450163 - How to export log of custom application using SAP Cloud Logging service on BTP - SAP for Me

3435835 - Release Schedule for SAP Cloud Logging service and SAP Private Link (SAP BTP) - SAP for Me

3429848 - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition: Integration with SAP Start - Restrictions - SAP for Me

Section 5.1] SAP CALM Cloud Application LifeCycle Management

[We must all remember, CALM in many cases is the successor of SAP Solution Manager (SolMan), and SAP Cloud ALM Application Lifecycle Management will replace SolMan for many of the capabilities, but not all !]

In my opinion of the SAP world, it's fair to say that CALM is a new(er) product, and it is a fact that it is evolving, and the capabilities are evolving according to SAP's RoadMap and Vision for CALM.

Everybody needs to keep in mind, that CALM is not a 1 to 1 replacement of SolMan, and even the planned capabilities of CALM are not yet all in place, but, according to SAP they will be.

CALM is going to be the center or our universe, we will be "doing" the whole Program/Operation from CALM, from what I hear SAP has hundreds of programmers working on CALM, the following presentation is a great way to open this section and give a view of what CALM is in 2024 and where CALM is going....

SAP CALM for Implementation - What's new 2024

Presentation Title

In this section there is a lot of very useful documentation, and including one which shows the comparison between CALM and SolMan, and for SAP Technology Architects who are looking at the capabilities of As-Is technologies and looking at the To-Be architecture and required capabilities and making the transformation roadmap, this is something which is very important to know.

CALM is a lot more, but for the basics, Monitoring, Transporting, Alerting, read on and explore the documentation....

SAP Solution Manager SolMan to SAP Cloud ALM CALM Transition Center in SAP for Me Portal, this is your starting point for how to transition from SolMan to CALM, this page includes the feature scope comparison between SolMan and CALM

Transition to SAP Cloud ALM

Everybody needs to keep in mind, SolMan is going out of Mainstream Maintenance at the end of 2027

SAP Cloud ALM Value Proposition, this publicly available presentation contains some very useful information

Value_of_SAP_Cloud_ALM.pdf

The SAP CALM Functional Overview, this for me, is one of the most important documents available for understanding in detail the functional capabilities of CALM

SAP_Cloud_ALM_Functional_Overview.pdf

SAP NG-DCI Next Generation Data Collection Infrastructure, this is how it works: OpenTelemetry@SAP

Obviously Monitoring is only one of the dimensions of the CALM Capabilities, and the presentation elaborates on all of the functional capabilities of CALM

How Cloud ALM enables Clean Core adoption in SAP S/4HANA RISE Transformations

How SAP Cloud ALM suports clean core adoption

SAP Cloud ALM Business Transformation Center

https://support.sap.com/en/alm/sap-cloud-alm/transformation/btc.html?anchorId=section_copy_copy_co_419748021

For Implementations, how do you get to SAP CALM from SolMan SAP Solution Manager, here's a useful document

Selective Data Transition from SAP SolMan Solution Manager to SAP CALM for Implementation

SelectiveDataTranferGuide_SAPSolutionManager.pdf

If you want to play with CALM and try out different capabilities then SAP have a CALM Public Demo Tenant just for that purpose...

Cloud ALM Demo Tenant

ALM Demo Landscape

Access to the SAP Cloud ALM Demo System

The following link contains the Roles and Usernames and Passwords.... (open the link and scroll down to find it all)...

Cloud ALM Demo Tenant

and here is the Launchpad Url for it:

SAP Cloud ALM Demo Landscape: Log On

SAP Discovery Center Mission - Onboarding & First Steps to SAP Cloud ALM

CALM Audit Logging BTP Guided Answers

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/3642/actions/59095

Cloud ALM for Operations

SAP Cloud ALM for Operations

SAP CALM for Operations Overview

SAP Cloud ALM for Operations - Introduction

CALM Business Service Management from SAP for Me7

https://support.sap.com/en/alm/sap-cloud-alm/operations/expert-portal/business-service-management.html

https://support.sap.com/en/my-support/systems-installations/cac.html?anchorId=section

CALM Roles and Authorisations Role Collections

https://help.sap.com/docs/cloud-alm/setup-administration/role-collections

CALM Audit Logging BTP Guided Answers

https://ga.support.sap.com/dtp/viewer/#/tree/3642/actions/59095

3398745 - Can custom Events be defined for missing metrics in the various SAP Cloud ALM Use Cases?

https://me.sap.com/notes/3398745

3436616 - How to configure SAP Cloud ALM Health Monitoring metric thresholds, alerts, and e-mail notifications?

https://me.sap.com/notes/3436616/E

SAP Cloud ALM for Operations what's new Q4 2023

SAP Cloud ALM for Operations - Delta

Setting up CALM connectivity to S/4HANA PCE

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

CALM Health Monitoring Setup and Configuration

https://support.sap.com/en/alm/sap-cloud-alm/operations/expert-portal/health-monitoring/health-monitoring-setup-configuration.html

What SAP Products SAP CALM supports

https://help.sap.com/docs/cloud-alm/setup-administration/supported-solutions

SAP CALM Quarterly Updates Documentation

https://webinars.sap.com/sap-cloud-alm-quarterly-updates/en/replays

3124427 - SAP Cloud ALM Operations How-to video playlist

https://me.sap.com/notes/3124427

Transport Transporting CTMS CTS+

Transporting is an evolving capability in CALM and leverages the SAP BTP Transport Management Service, here are some useful documents on how to set it up and the capabilities

Enabling Transport Management | SAP Help Portal

3429058 - Data Transfer to SAP Cloud ALM - SAP for Me

SAP CALM Admin Guide including setting up Transporting

SAP Cloud Transport Management Service | SAP Help Portal

SAP Cloud BTP Transport_Management_en.pdf

Presentation Title

Integrate SAP Cloud Transport Management in to Application LifeCycle Management Solutions - this is an excellent document...

Presentation Title

Best Practices for Combining CI and Transport Management

Holistic Picture of SAP BTP Change and Transport Management

SAP Cloud Transport Management Service

SAP Cloud Transport Management Service Road Map

SAP Road Map Explorer

SAP Discovery Center Mission - Get Started with SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation

Release & Deployment Management

SAP Community Call for SAP Cloud ALM Experts March 2024

This is a useful document including some useful slides in the context of RISE and CALM and how CALM enables the Activate Methodology, and regarding....

Deployment Integration

SAP SolMan to CALM capability transition roadmap...

SAP Cloud ALM for BTP Operations SAP Cloud ALM for BTP

This is a very useful document regarding Monitoring and Capabilities

Integration of Deployment Tools | SAP Help Portal

Transitioning to SAP Cloud ALM...

Transition to SAP Cloud ALM

Transition to SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation

Transition to SAP Cloud ALM for Operations

SAP Products which can be monitored by CALM

https://support.sap.com/en/alm/sap-cloud-alm/operations/expert-portal/integration-monitoring/int-mon-setup-support.html?anchorId=section

CALM OSS Resolution Groups

SV-CLM-OP

SV-CLM-IMP

SV-CLM

Setup CALM for S/4HANA

https://support.sap.com/en/alm/sap-cloud-alm/operations/expert-portal/setup-managed-services/setup-abap-priv-cloud.html?anchorId=section_1685269020_c

CALM Cockpit

https://emea.cockpit.btp.cloud.sap/cockpit/

The SAP Cloud ALM Summit 2024 happened in September 2024

Here is the list of documentation: https://support.sap.com/en/alm/sap-almsummit/sap-alm-summit-emea-2024-materials.html

Here are my favourite documents in terms of S/4HANA and RISE Customers

AI Innovation Platform - SAP Services and Support: Driving AI Business Value in Services & Support

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/cross-topics/Day4-CrossTopics-AIInnovationPlatform-KarolBliznak.pdf

SAP EarlyWatch Alert in the Cloud

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/cross-topics/Day4-CrossTopics-EarlyWatch-in-the-Cloud-Susanne-Glaenzer.pdf

News in Service Delivery via SAP Cloud ALM for Service

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/cross-topics/Day4-CrossTopics-NewsinSAPCloudALMforService-UlrikeHormann.pdf

ITSM Integration via SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/cross-topics/Day4-CrossTopics-ITSM_Integration_via_SAP_Cloud_ALM-WilhelmJuette.pdf

USING GENAI TO ACCELERATE IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS IN SAP CLOUD ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/customer-experiences/Day3_Using%20GenAI%20to%20accelerate%20implementation%20projects%20in%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM_Seidler_Bona_Schaeffer_AFO.pdf

Integrated Tool Chain

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/customer-experiences/Rosenberger_SKYWAY_Integrated_Tool_Chain_ALM_SUMMIT_EMEA_2024_20240926.pdf

Gain insights in how to manage large and hybrid SAP landscapes with SAP Focused Run

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-focused-run/Day4-FRUN-Gain%20insights%20in%20how%20to%20manage%20large%20and%20hybrid%20SAP%20landscapes%20with%20SAP%20Focused%20Run-Lahr.pdf

See how SAP is leveraging SAP Focused Run to ensure system stability, performance, and security

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-focused-run/Day4-FRUN-See%20how%20SAP%20is%20leveraging%20SAP%20Focused%20Run%20to%20ensure%20system%20stability,%20performance,%20and%20security-Lahr.pdf

Latest news regarding analytics & intelligence in SAP Focused Run

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-focused-run/Day4-FRUN-Latest%20news%20regarding%20analytics_intelligence%20in%20SAP%20Focused%20Run_Campo.pdf

Learn how SAP Cloud ALM supports your change control management process

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/transition-to-sap-cloud-alm/Day4%20-%20Learn%20how%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20supports%20your%20change%20control%20management%20process.pdf

What you need to know for a successful transition to SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/transition-to-sap-cloud-alm/Day3_Transition_to_SAP_Cloud_ALM_Overview_Schneider.pdf

Mastering Selective Data Transfer from SAP Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/transition-to-sap-cloud-alm/Day%204%20Mastering%20Selective%20Data%20Transfer%20from%20SAP%20Solution%20Manager%20to%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM.pdf

Fire up your transition journey with the SAP Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/transition-to-sap-cloud-alm/Day4_Transition_to_SAP_Cloud_ALM_Fire_up_your_transition_journey_with_the_SAP_Readiness_Check_for_SAP_Cloud_ALM_Kunst_Jungmann.pdf

Cloud ALM CALM Expert Portal

This is the source and starting point for all CALM doco, and set up guides and best practices and everything

SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation Expert Portal

SAP Cloud ALM for Implementation End 2 End Demo - this is the how to best practices guide for implementing and getting to Cloud ALM

Presentation Title

Prepare your transition from SAP Solution Manager to SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/transition-to-sap-cloud-alm/Day4_Transition%20to%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM_Prepare%20your%20transition%20from%20SAP%20Solution%20Manager%20to%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM_M.Biegert.pdf

Learn how to use SAP Cloud ALM in a partner scenario

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/how-to-extend-sap-cloud-alm/Day2-Extend-Learn%20how%20to%20use%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20in%20a%20partner%20scenario-Birkenbach.pdf

Get first-hand experience from partners on how to manage deliveries with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/how-to-extend-sap-cloud-alm/Day2-Extend-Partner%20Best%20Practices-Birkenbach.pdf

Extend SAP Cloud ALM with external systems Agile project management and workflow management

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/how-to-extend-sap-cloud-alm/Day2-HowToExtendSAPCloudALM-ExtendSAPCloudALMWithExternalSystems.pdf

Unlock the potential of DevOps with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/how-to-extend-sap-cloud-alm/Day2%20-%20Manage%20and%20monitor%20your%20SAP%20extensions%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20Xavier%20Dupeyrat.pdf

Extend SAP Cloud ALM with Observability Platform

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/how-to-extend-sap-cloud-alm/Day2_How%20to%20extend%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM_Extend%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20with%20Observability%20platform_Campo.pdf

What's New and Roadmap: API for SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/how-to-extend-sap-cloud-alm/Day2%20-%20Discover%20the%20latest%20and%20upcoming%20API%20management%20functionalities%20in%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20Xavier%20Dupeyrat.pdf

Gain Insights on How to Monitor Integration Scenarios for SAP and Even Non-SAP Components
with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day2-SAPCloudALMforOperations-Gain%20insights%20on%20how%20to%20monitor%20integration%20scenarios%20for%20SAP%20and%20even%20non-%20SAP%20components%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM-bechler.pdf

Embrace openness: See the integration between local and central observability and
integration of NON-SAP components with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day2-CALMOperations-Embrace%20openness-Budzisch.pdf

Discover how AI empowers synthetic and real user monitoring in SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day3-CALMOperations-Discover_how_AI_empowers_Synthetic_and%20_Real_User_Monitoring_in_SAP_Cloud_ALM-Garcia.pdf

Manage your Landscape, Authorizations, and Connectivity to Managed Components with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day3_SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20for%20operations_Manage%20your%20landscape,%20authorizations,%20and%20managed%20component%20connectivity%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM.pdf

Get an overview, news and outlook of SAP Cloud ALM for Operations

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day2-CALMOperations-Get%20an%20overview,%20news%20and%20outlook%20of%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20for%20Operations-Budzisch.pdf

Monitoring of jobs and automation tasks with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day3-CALMOperations-Ensure%20reliable%20executions%20of%20job%20and%20automation%20tasks%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM-Spiry.pdf

See how SAP Cloud ALM and AI help to manage business services and alerts

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day2-CALMOperations-See%20how%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20and%20AI%20help%20to%20manage%20business%20services%20and%20alerts-Wenzke%20Richarts.pdf

Provide Observability for Business Technology Platform with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-operations/Day3-CALMOperations-Observability_for_BTP-Budzisch.pdf

Assure your quality with SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Application Testing Solutions by Tricentis

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-implementation/Day4-Assure%20your%20quality%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20and%20SAP%20Application%20Testing%20Solutions%20by%20Tricentis-Implementation-AlexanderErtl%20-%20Copy.pdf

The road to SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/sap-cloud-alm-for-implementation/Day3_Implementation_customer%20journey%20to%20CALM_Mercedes_Niedermann_FlehmigloudALM_ALM_Summit_2024.pdf

Supporting RISE and Clean Core with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day%202%20-%20Supporting%20RISE%20and%20Clean%20Core%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM_Chris+Hendrik.pdf

Get insights on how SAP Cloud ALM for operations will support the clean core initiative

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day3_Clean_Core_Support_with_SAP_Cloud_ALM_For_Operations_JankoBudzisch.pdf

Keep your core clean with SAP Cloud ALM change and deployment management

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day3%20-%20Keep%20your%20core%20clean%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20change%20and%20deployment%20management.pdf

Manage your RISE with SAP implementation project using SAP Cloud ALM in a clean core mindset

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day2_Clean%20Core_Manage%20your%20RISE%20with%20SAP%20implementation%20project%20using%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM%20in%20a%20clean%20core%20mindset_Henrik%20Zimmermann.pdf

Clean Core Compliance with SAP Cloud ALM and RISE with SAP Methodology

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day2-Clean%20Core%20Compliance%20with%20RISE%20with%20SAP%20Methodology.pdf

Make your SAP S/4HANA conversion project a non event supported by SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day2-Make%20your%20SAP%20S4HANA%20conversion%20project%20a%20non-event%20supported%20by%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM.pdf

How SAP Cloud ALM and SAP Customer Evolution Kit can kick start your transformation

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day2_How%20CALM%20and%20SAP%20Customer%20Evolution%20Kit%20can%20kick%20start%20your%20transformation_ChristianMueller_v1.pdf

Migrate to SAP S/4HANA with a reliable and confident data transition

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/rise-with-sap---clean-core/Day2_Migrate_to_SAPS4HANA_with_a_reliable_and_confident_data_transition_Spihlmann.pdf

Gain transparency in transformation projects with SAP Cloud ALM

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/keynotes---plenarys/SAP_ALM_Summit_Johannes_Hurst_SNP_Transparency%20in%20migration%20projects%20with%20SAP%20Cloud%20ALM_Final.pdf

The Age of Acceleration: AI and rethinking innovation opportunities

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/alm/SummitFiles/2024-emea/keynotes---plenarys/Timo%20Elliott%20ALM%20keynote%20final.pdf

Section 5.1.2] SAP Build Work Zone

SAP Work Zone integration with S/4HANA

Integration Guide: SAP Build Work Zone, Standard Edition Integration with SAP S/4HANA

Integration Guide: SAP Build Work Zone, Standard Edition Integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud

The journey from SAP Cloud Portal to SAP Build Work Zone

SAP Work Zone - Product Overview

Establish a Central Entry Point with SAP Build Work Zone - Reference Architecture

SAP Discovery Center Architecture - Establish a central entry point with SAP Build Work Zone

SAP Build Work Zone Advanced Edition User Guide

What Is SAP Build Work Zone, advanced edition? | SAP Help Portal

SAP Build Work Zone Advanced Edition HowTo Guides

How To Guides | SAP Help Portal

SAP Build Work Zone Advanced Edition Security Guide

Security Guide | SAP Help Portal

Feature Scope Specification SAP Build Work Zone

WZ_STD_FSD.pdf

Reference Architecture Build Work Zone

https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/refArchDetail/ref-arch-sap-build-work-zone

Integration Guide Build Work Zone

https://help.sap.com/docs/CIAS%20FES%202020/ecb81b5bfce440ca8e7e7c9ad58fcf3a/98a3f0830f084aefb5ea75fb20959af5.html

Solution to the Work Zone problem of Apps not getting refreshed and not being visible, here's the solution (Apps not visible in Workzone):

Set Up Automatic Updates for an SAP Enterprise Portal Content Provider | SAP Help Portal

here's somebody with the same problem:

Solved: HTML5 App published but not showing in Work Zone ... - SAP Community

"Do you see your app listed in the HTML5 Applications menu in the BTP cockpit? If yes, try refreshing the HTML App channel in SAP Build Work Zone."

The SAP Fiori Applications Library...

SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library

Integration Guide: SAP Build Work Zone Integration with SAP S/4HANA

Integration Guide: SAP Build Work Zone, Standard Edition Integration with SAP S/4HANA | SAP Help Portal

Connecting the Cloud Connector to the SAP BTP Subaccount | SAP Help Portal

Section 5.2] Extending S/4HANA on RISE

Start here....

SAP Extension Methodology for evaluating and processing demands:

SAP Application Extension Methodology Overview | SAP Help Portal

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/sap-application-extension-methodology/sap-appli...

and we use the

SAP Extension Architecture Guide What is the Extension Architecture Guide? | SAP Help Portal

https://help.sap.com/docs/sap-btp-guidance-framework/extension-architecture-guide/what-is-extension-...

and the SAP BTP Developer's Guide Develop the User Interface | SAP Help Portal

This is very useful picture, from this presentation explaining the Golden Rule for Extensions Planning and Design

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1614%20Implementing%20SAP%20S4HANA%20Cloud%20private%20edition.pptx

Extend SAP S/4HANA in the cloud and on premise with ABAP based extensions
Guidelines for extension project managers, key users, and ABAP developers

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1612%20Extend%20SAP%20S_4HANA%20in%20the%2...

Overview of extensibility options...

Key User Extensibility

SAP S/4HANA on RISE On Stack Developer Extensibility with SAP CLoud ABAP

SAP S/4HANA on RISE Side by Side Extensibility with the SAP BTP ABAP

SAP S/4 Extensibility when to use what Clean Core AGENDA – 22. November 2023, Berlin, Inclover Studio

Summary of Extensibility Options for S/4HANA Cloud

How to Optimize Application Development and Automation with the SAP BTP Presentation Title

Extend SAP S/4HANA in the cloud and on premise with ABAP based extensions
Guidelines for extension project managers, key users, and ABAP developers

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1612%20Extend%20SAP%20S_4HANA%20in%20the%2...

Another very useful document for helping with the decisons of where to do what... extend_your_erp_while_keeping_the_core_clean_with_sap_build_code_and_ai.pdf

When to use which extensibility option

SAP Build Code Best Practices

TurboCharging Application Development with Generative AI

The Universe of SAP BTP in a Nutshell – SAP Build

2023_sap_build_webinar_april_4.pdf

3470426 - Collection note: Release of data elements for Clean Core developments in S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition - SAP for Me

This is another very good document and well worth a read

Extend SAP S/4HANA in the cloud and on premise with ABAP based extensions

ABAP based extensibility options....

2023_abap_extensibility_options_btp_universe.pdf

Establish Connection Between SAP S/4HANA PCE and SAP BTP

Establish Trust Configuration between SAP S/4HANA On-premise and SAP BTP | SAP Tutorials

Section 5.3] SAP Integration Suite Cloud Integration CI

This is very useful picture, from this presentation explaining the Golden Rule for Integrations Planning and Design

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/SAAP/SAP_Activate/S4H_1614%20Implementing%20SAP%20S4HANA%20Cloud%20private%20edition.pptx

This picture, which gives a visualisation of how to move, migrate, transition from SAP Process Integration Process Orchestration to SAP Integration Suite Cloud Integration is from this publicly available document: sap_integration_suite_btp_series_202302.pdf

Migrating from SAP PI PO to SAP BTP Integration Suite

Presentation Title

SAP Discovery Center Integration Suite Overview

SAP Discovery Center Service - Integration Suite

SAP Integration Suite for Hybrid and Heterogeneous Environments

PowerPoint Presentation

High Availability of Integration Suite HA DR

SAP Integration Suite Introduction

PowerPoint Presentation

Integration Suite Feature Scope Description

FSD_IntegrationSuite.pdf

Integration Suite for Hybrid Environments

sap_integration_suite.pdf

Generation Hybrid Integration with Edge Integration Cell - this is a useful document 002_btp-melb-edge-integration-cell.pdf

Edge Integration Cell

Edge Integration Cell High Level Architecture

SAP Cloud Integration Content Transport

Content Transport | SAP Help Portal

Simplify and accelerate all your Enterprise Integrations with a versatile and enterprise-grade integration platform

PowerPoint Presentation

This document is higher level and talks about Integration and Core Business Processes

Integrate to Innovate

This is the official SAP Integration Architecture Guide

Summary | SAP Help Portal

Future-proof Integration strategy with SAP Integration Suite

This presentation contains very nice explanations on how to migrate from SAP Process Orchestration or Process Integration to SAP Integration Suite Cloud Integration...

Migration Guide for SAP Process Orchestration Migration Guide for SAP Process Orchestration | SAP Help Portal

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

The enterprise Integration Suite for hybrid and heterogenous environments

sap_integration_suite_btp_series_202302.pdf

SAP BTP Cloud Integration

004b5af183614b93975c1addc755abac.pdf

SAP Cloud Integration Best Practices

This is another really nice document, it's buried down here, and it's a must read, it covers all kind of of subjects including performance, security, configuratiuon etc

cloud_integration_best_practices.pdf

here are some sample slides, the best is to read the document...

Integration Suite Cloud Integration Security Concepts and Principles

Feature Scope Description SAP Cloud Integration

CPI_HCI_FSD_Ext.pdf

Getting Started with Integration Flow Development

Get Started with Integration Flow Development (Cloud Foundry Environment)

BTP CI IFlows with AI Assistance

https://help.sap.com/docs/cloud-integration/sap-cloud-integration/creating-integration-flow#generate-integrations-with-ai-assistance

2903776 - SAP Integration Suite – Service Plans and Upgrade Paths

https://me.sap.com/notes/2903776

SAP Integration Solution Advisory Methodology

https://help.sap.com/doc/ac5a3b73452548cb887f3963877eb9ab/Cloud/en-US/sap.integration.solutions.advisory.pdf

https://help.sap.com/docs/cloud-integration

SAP Integration Solution Methodology

sap.integration.solutions.advisory.pdf

Connecting the Intelligent Enterprise with SAP Integration Suite... SAP Business Technology Platform

Pre-Packaged Integration with SAP ERP

C4C-ERPviaHCI-E2E-Guide.pdf

Section 5.3] AI & Intelligent Technologies

For me, AI and Automation and Intelligent Technologies are one of the biggest opportunities for improvements in efficiency across the whole Enterprise, across technical operation business.

All of us have an obligation to stay ahead of the game here and know about the available products and the roadmaps and where the integration of AI and Automation and in fact Analytics into Business Processes can improve efficiency and decision making across the Organisation end to end. We need to know what is currently available and possible and what the roadmaps and plans for the future are. There are already a lot of easy win easy to implement SAP AI enabled capabilities, from SAP Build Code AI to Intelligent Account Reconciliation and everything in between.

This section will combine AI and Automation together.

SAP Business AI PowerPoint Presentation

SAP AI Powered Queries for Analytics in Natural Language

SAP Business AI for SAP RISE Customers

SAP AI Ethics and Privacy Standards

Ensuring Data Privacy for Generative GenAI

PowerPoint Presentation

AI with the SAP BTP, from the above presentation SAP Business AI

SAP's Global AI Ethics Guiding Principles - 2024 document... Ethical AI

SAP’s Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence

SAP’s Global AI Ethics Guiding Principles and Governance Bodies

Presentation Title

SAP AI Ethics Handbook (2024)

This is a fantastic document and well worth reading and digesting

SAP-AI-Ethics-Handbook.pdf

The Future of Supply Chain with SAP Business AI

this is an excellent document which also goes in to ethics, and how to secure access to the Large Language Models LLM Security

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

SAP Business AI - Responsible AI - FAQ

SAP Business AI- Responsible AI FAQ

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to SAP Business AI

PowerPoint-Präsentation

SAP AI Core with Generative AI - Operationalize AI

SAP AI Core L1 (Public)

SAP AI Services List and Service Specifications

sap-ai-services-list-english-v10-2024.pdf

SAP Business AI Cheat Sheet – Your Quick Reference... - SAP Community

lots and lots of useful information and links thanks to @Raja_Gupta1

SAP AI Core for the SAP BTP SAP Discovery Center Service - SAP AI Core

Artificial intelligence for the real world | SAP

What is Artificial Intelligence? | AI in Business | SAP

SAP AI Strategy White Paper SAP Business AI

Artificial Intelligence for the SAP BTP sap_btp_ai_2022-09-21.pdf

SAP AI Launchpad User Guide

04ed96d5a9864b5a9b6f2be56d396a37.pdf

SAP BTP Gen AI Strategy and Vision Gen AI and SAP BTP

AI Cookbook - Easy Recipes with SAP BTP

SAP Generative AI Cyber Security Strategy

SAP Generative AI Cybersecurity Strategy

SAP GenAI Explore Workshop Guide

01_GenAI_ExploreWorkshopGuide.pdf

How to lean on GenAI for new product ideas | SAP

SAP Intelligent Asset Management Compendium

100 pages going through all of the Intelligent Asset Products

intelligent_asset_management_compendium.pdf

SAP AI Launchpad 2025 document

038a6194f65c4ef68885f6f16360dbc4.pdf

https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/ai-core-generative-ai.html

Intelligent Technologies and Business Processes Excel Sheet

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/hHzXdEW?rc=10

This Excel contains a comprehensive list of all of the integration of AI and Automation opportunities across all SAP Business Processes of the S/4HANA, where there is a possibility to improve decision making. When you click on the Excel it will download to your pc.

https://userapps.support.sap.com/sap/support/knowledge/en/3393699

SAP Automation Security Guide

loiod73799f694e8452a9a738a692b734c04.pdf

3523238 - Navigational and Transactional capabilities with Joule in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 - SAP for Me

The AI Copilot Joule | Artificial Intelligence | SAP

Financial Business Insights with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Joule | Interactive Value Journey

SAP Joule Capabilities

c0bb884c3e27438695f4750b547aac77.pdf

Revolutionize ABAP development with Joule, our generative AI copilot

Integrating Joule with SAP Solutions

79bfc83ab386450c8cd9c7937ce26a3a.pdf

Introducing Joule - The AI copilot that truly understands your business

Hi, I'm Joule

SAP Analytics Cloud with Joule

SAP Generative Gen AI

openSAP_genai1_All_Slides_Presentation.pdf

3521432 - What is the AI Unit Estimator & how to use it in SAP for Me? - SAP for Me

3486683 - SAP Enable Now, cloud edition, AI-assisted authoring - SAP for Me

3437766 - Availability of Generative AI Models - SAP for Me

3413498 - Master Data Governance Framework AI functionalities (AI-generated Summary/AI-assisted changes) - SAP for Me

BIG NEWS: Joule in SAP Build Work Zone, standard edition

Joule is now integrated in to SAP Build Work Zone

Thanks to @Yumnahabbasi for sharing

Joule is Now Integrated into SAP Build Work Zone! - SAP Community

Great blog, Activate Joule with SAP Build Work Zone and SAP Mobile Start, by @nageshcaparthy

Activate Joule with SAP Build Work Zone and SAP Mo... - SAP Community

SAP Discovery Center - SAP S/4HANA PCE & Joule, this page also highlights a number of S/4 PCE AI enabled opportunities...

SAP Discovery Center AI Feature - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Joule

SAP Joule Capabilities Guide

c0bb884c3e27438695f4750b547aac77.pdf

SAP Joule Introduction and Overview

9d8c0ef2443b49f993a27de8f38f83af.pdf

SAP Business AI Q4 2024 Highlights:

SAP Business AI: Release Highlights Q4 2024 | SAP News Center

SAP Business AI Solution - AI built in to Business Processes

SAP Business AI Solutions | AI Built into Business Processes

SAP Discovery Center - Business AI Features and Capabilities and Opportunities

SAP Discovery Center Business AI Features

This is a very useful page and gives an overview all of the Business AI features...

SAP Learning - Roadmap for SAP Business AI

Exploring the Strategic Roadmap for SAP Business AI

SAP AI Missions in the Discovery Center

SAP Discovery Center - Missions

This is a really nice blog explaining SAP Business AI S/4 Embedded AI and S/4 Joule AI by @Giulio_Grandine76

Revolutionizing Enterprise Intelligence: SAP Business AI, Joule, and Embedded AI

SAP Business AI - SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition - Joule

Digital Library

2025 SAP AI Artificial Intelligence Defining Themes

AI in 2025: 5 Themes | SAP News Center

SAP AI in 2025 Defining Themes

AI in 2025: 5 Themes | SAP News Center

SAP Enterprise Support Academy Newsletter January ... - SAP Community

SAP Enterprise Support Advisory Council

Presentation Title

SAP Learning Journeys..

Getting to Know Joule, SAP's Next-Generation AI Copilot

Integrating Joule with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Identifying Opportunities for SAP Business AI and Joule

Using the Embedded Support Capabilities and the Joule Generative

Operations Operational Situation Handling in SAP S/4HANA Cloud featuring GenAI and Joule

Digital Library

Introducing Joule in SAP Product Lifecycle Management

Joule in SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Supply Chain | SAP News

Meet Joule, the AI Copilot That Truly Understands Your Business

SAP Analytics Cloud with Joule

The AI Copilot Joule | Artificial Intelligence | SAP

The SAP Joule help.sap.com documentation page

What is SAP Joule, What is Joule

9d8c0ef2443b49f993a27de8f38f83af.pdf

Joule | SAP Help Portal

Feature Scope

https://help.sap.com/doc/0a1c2b2b16f843dca835b44a5db033be/CLOUD/en-US/9c3432ecab90406e99dbc987389334ed.pdf

Integrating with SAP Applications

https://help.sap.com/doc/de3af3c0f81642dbaa4d36172ed57a72/CLOUD/en-US/79bfc83ab386450c8cd9c7937ce26a3a.pdf

Integrating Joule with SAP Solutions

Introduction | SAP Help Portal

Joule Onboarding Guide | SAP Help Portal

SAP Business AI Learning Journeys

Exploring the SAP Business AI Portfolio

Grasping the Overview of SAP Business AI

SAP Discovery Center Joule

SAP Discovery Center Mission - Get Started with SAP Build Code and Joule using Generative AI (Trial and Enterprise Account)

Activating Joule and Running the Booster

SAP Video - Chapter 1 - Activating Joule and Running the Booster - Read Description for updated information

Joule for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition - A Comprehensive Setup Guide

Joule for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition - A Co... - SAP Community

thanks @nageshcaparthy

SAP Unveils AI-assisted capabilities in the latest SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Release

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 FPS02 | SAP News Center

SAP User Experience Q4/2024 News for SAP S/4HANA C... - SAP Community

thanks @ThomasReiss

What's New Viewer - SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition | SAP Help Portal

How to run a Business AI Workshop - how cool is that 🙂

SAP AppHaus • Business AI Explore Workshop – Identify AI use cases with business impact.

ABAP Platform GenAI RoadMap

GenAI | SAP Help Portal

3522010 - Activation of Generative AI features in SAP Datasphere - SAP for Me

3451415 - Initial Release of Joule in SAP Analytics Cloud stories - SAP for Me

3545050 - List of Business Objects Enabled for Joule in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition - SAP for Me

3541023 - Central Note for SAP Build Work Zone Navigation Service - SAP for Me

3523238 - Navigational and Transactional capabilities with Joule in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition 2023 - SAP for Me

This Note is extremely important, pay attention to the 3 Excel sheets attached to the Note as they outline the SAP Fiori apps and the transactional actions that Joule can execute on business objects of SAP S/4HANA 2023 Cloud Private Edition FPS01 and higher.

3519499 - Enhanced Joule Data Center Consumption - SAP for Me

SAP User Experience Q1/2025 Update – Part 1: Many New Innovations Available (AI, Joule and More) - thanks to @ThomasReiss

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sap-user-experience-q1-2025-update-part-1-many-new-innovations-available-ai/ba-p/14012822

Section 5.4] SAP Reporting and Analytics

This is a new section and will gradually be enriched....

We start with the,

SAP Data & Analytics Advisory Methodology Overview

SAP Data & Analytics Advisory Methodology Overview | SAP Help Portal

Download the Data & Analytics Advisory Methodology Overview

https://help.sap.com/docs/link-disclaimer?site=https%3A%2F%2Fd.dam.sap.com%2Fa%2FJ9MF5Fb%3Frc%3D10%26doi%3DSAP1125785

This presentation is 127 slides, and a MUST READ, here are a few of the slides to give a taster, the rest are in the presentation.... this document is golden there is information in here on Data Management Master Data, Data Governance everything...

Data Governance vs Data Management

Download the Data & Anayltics Advisory Methodology Templates

https://help.sap.com/docs/link-disclaimer?site=https%3A%2F%2Fd.dam.sap.com%2Fa%2FMghyakt%3Frc%3D10%26doi%3DSAP1125789

Section 6] SAP North Star Architecture and Customer Center of Excellence

(This section is a work in progress)

You might be asking yourself why in a SAP RISE Toolbox there are links to how to do a SAP CCOE ?

That's a great question, and the answer is that, most companies have been running/operating SAP the same way since 3.1h, and now with RISE the whole game is changing, the Roles and Responsibilities are changing and the Segregation of Duties is changing, between who does what, SAP, Customer, and if they have one the Customer's System Integrator.

And that's why, during the S/4HANA RISE Transformation, you will be best off, if you take the opportunity and redesign how you run/operate SAP, the way you have run SAP for the ECC generation will not fit to how you run SAP in the RISE generation, and on top of this, isn't it time for "The Business" and "IT/SAP" to get closer together ?

This will help with setting the scene.. SAP Learning Journey...

Discover Organizational Change Management for SAP Cloud Projects

S4H_632 OCM Customer Organisation Readiness Whitepaper.pdf

SAP offer a fantastic service for helping Customers on this journey, S/4HANA & RISE is not only an ERP Transformation, it's also an Organisational Transformation, and you should look at the SAP North Star Architecture Services, in my 25 years of doing SAP these are the most valuable Services I have seen as North Star Architectures brings the knowledge of all of SAP's Customers and Best Practices on how to run SAP.

In my opinion, if you have the money, then the North Star Architecture Service is a must have for helping ensure the success of the S/4HANA & RISE journey, from conception to delivery.

There was an amazing SAP North Star Architecture public event in December (2024) and the material is here, the presentation and the video recording:

SAP PE Session 'North Star service' (Virtual, Dece... - SAP Community

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Digital Library

These are some of the slides from the presentation:

SAP North Star Architecture Service Value Proposition

SAP Enterprise Architecture to Enable Change

SAP North Star Architecture: Building Blocks

Modular Service Approach: SAP North Star Architecture Service

Iteration Cycles and Service Patterns

Pre-Defined Patterns

Pattern Overview: Target Architecture and Roadmap

Pattern Overview: Business Transformation

Pattern Overview: Roll-Out Strategy Assessment

Pattern Overview: Landscape Consolidation Strategy

Instance Strategy

RoadMap Design Dimensions

Transition Scenarios Determination and Evaluation

Approach for Transition Evaluation

Transition Strategy Decision

Assessment of Implementation Approach

Landscape Transformation Summary

Roll-Out Strategy Example Deliverable from the SAP North Star Architecture Service

Delivery Example: Consolidate First vs Consolidate on S/4

SAP ECC Landscape Consolidation and Move to S/4HANA potential scenarios

Migration to S/4HANA with Interim Systems

https://www.sap.com/documents/2023/11/c272ac9a-9b7e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html

Innovate with the latest S/4HANA Innovations Services and Recommendations during an S/4HANA Upgrade and Transformation - This also ties in to the Phase 0, the Prepararion, the North Star Architecture Services... a lot of useful information in here and definitely worth reading...

https://d.dam.sap.com/a/GZ736TT

SAP Transformation Navigator

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Process Discovery for S/4HANA Transformation

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

Get to grips with Signavio - Accelerate and secure IT Transformations

Title Goes Here and Here and Here

The SAP Customer CoE Journey:

Where are you today ? And where do you want to be ?

The above pictures are publicly available and come from this document: https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe_strategy_framework.pdf

Guides and Best Practices for Customer COE

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/ccoe/cio-customer-coe-guides.html

SAP Customer CoE Strategy, Governance, and Organisation

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe_strategy_framework.pdf

Discover SAP Organisational Change Management

Discover Organizational Change Management for SAP Cloud Projects

How is SAP's Organisational Change Management structured ?

How is SAP’s Organizational Change Management Framework structure

Why does User adoption in Cloud Projects matter ?

Why does User Adoption matter in Cloud Projects

Why is the People Side of Cloud Projects important ?

Why is the People Side of Cloud Projects important

SAP Advanced Customer CoE

Advanced Customer COE

How do you set up Organisational Change Management for your Cloud Project

How do you set up Organizational Change Management for your Cloud

Landscape Management Process

This is a beautiful document, and inspirational in catalysing and inspiring discussion on to be Organisation and Management of the SAP CoE and the move to the Cloud. The material we can say is out of date because it talks in terms of Solution Manager, but nevertheless, the principles and approaches and thought processes can be applied to conversations regarding moving to S/4 on RISE and with the BTP...

https://support.sap.com/en/tools/software-logistics-tools/landscape-management-process.html?anchorId=section_175842419

https://community.sap.com/t5/enterprise-resource-planning-blogs-by-sap/business-transformation-requires-organizational-transformation/ba-p/13511386

CCOE Media Library

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/ccoe/media-library.html

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/ccoe/cio-customer-coe-guides.html

https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/discover-organizational-change-management-for-sap-cloud-projects/how-is-sap-s-organizational-change-management-framework-structured_c1708e6a-28f8-4245-8392-d83cbf48773b

https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/discover-organizational-change-management-for-sap-cloud-projects

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/ccoe/cio-customer-coe-guides.html?anchorId=section

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe-hints.pdf

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/ccoe.html?anchorId=section_541877121_co

https://support.sap.com/en/offerings-programs/ccoe/cio-customer-coe-guides.html

https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/applying-the-sap-enterprise-architecture-framework

This is really useful

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-as-service-provider/primary-ccoe/CCOE_GettingStarted.pdf

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe_strategy_framework.pdf

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe_licenses_framework.pdf

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe_information_knowledge.pdf

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe_supportability_en.pdf

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/ccoe-document-store/ccoe_continuous_success_en.pdf

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/support/en_us/library/ssp/offerings-and-programs/customer-center-of-expertise/media-library/general-information/continuous-improvement-and-innovation-with-a-ccoe.pdf

Section 7] Lessons Learned

(this section is an ongoing work in progress)

How to Avoid Delays in an S/4HANA Program

I am leading with this one, as in my opinion it is the most important and the mechanisms for avoiding delays drill down in to other areas.

Delays in the S/4 Programs can run into costs of millions per month, according to the cash burn rate of the Program. There are ways to avoid and reduce the chance of delays, and that's what we're going to discuss here.

Currently on my second S/4 Program and looking forward to the third one, this has given me a deep understanding of the "procedure", and the activities, and what works and what doesn't and enables reflection how to avoid problems, and the biggest problem in my opinion is DELAYS to the Program. The S/4 Program is huge, and it is very expensive, and has a hugely expensive monthly burn rate, and delays in the S/4 Program have at least two painful impacts, the first one is the monthly extended cash burn rate, and the second is the delaying of other Programs and Projects which are dependent on the on time success of the S/4 Program and it's Releases.

In my experience, Delays will become visible in SIT and UAT, this is where things will happen which will result in Delays.

That does not mean that SIT and UAT are the cause of the Delays, it means the gaps / weaknesses become exposed during SIT and UAT, which actually is the purpose of SIT and UAT.

The problem is that in SIT and UAT, I see the same pattern, Defects and even Design Changes are being exposed which could have, and should have become visible earlier, which means the prior phases were not executed properly.

The problem is, an S/4 Program is not a SAP Migration or Upgrade or Transformation in the classical sense, it is a Data Transformation, a Process Transformation, a Technical Basis Transformation, an Integration Transformation, a User Experience Transformation, an Operations Transformation, a User Interface Transformation, a Security Transformation.

Invest in Training, Education, and Preparation

Training - make sure everybody has as much training as possible and is on the same page

Skills - this document is an oldy, and a goody, from 2016 and goes through the 10 SAP Quality Principles, Driving Excellence in Implementations - and Beyond: The Underlying Quality Principles and one of the principles is:

Training and Education :

Get the Team to do the RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition learning journey...

Discovering RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, premium plus Implementation and Adoption

Send as many people as you can afford on the following training, this training is GOLDEN.

Regardless of what you think about methodologies, Activate is a Guided Procedure across all dimensions of the S/4 Program, which SAP have developed and evolved with continuous lessons from Customer experiences and will guide you through the journey you are about to embark on, your people need to have done these training courses:

ACT1CL_EN_Col11 SAP Activate Methodology Introduction

ACT2CL_EN_Col11 SAP Activate Methodology Cloud Implementation

ACT5CL_EN_Col12 Introduction to SAP Activate Methodology for SAP Cloud Implementations

ACT100.21.EN-US SAP Activate Methodology

S4C03_EN_Col21 RISE with S4HANA Cloud Private Edition Onboarding Fundamentals

Program / Project Management

Get the Leadership Team to prepare the plan and ideally have SAP sanity check it by using North Star Services, pay for a Service from SAP for them to sanity check the S/4HANA Program Plan

Clean Core and Cloud Mindset, before the Program, get everybody trained in these approaches

Embrace the Proactive Maintenance & Contractual Maintenance Periods CMP

RISE Leadership Guide - Everybody should read this https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/05/44b3ebd5-4b7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

S/4HANA Upgrades

Upgrades are recommended be done in a Project Dual Line Landscape - period

Releases and Upgrades should be clubbed together where possible

This will then...

Protect Production

Protect the Program

In anything you do, you must Protect Production and you must Protect the Program !

Program Team

Have a dedicated Team, don't have Operations People working on the S/4 Transformation part time as that can be a contributor to delays in the Program, and a Program wide delay of only 1 month will cover the cost of dedicated people

Other Non-SAP Teams in your Organisation

If the Program is depending on deliveries from other Non-SAP Teams in the Organisations, eg there will need to be a custom development on Service-Now or SalesForce or whatever other system then you need to make sure that those Teams have people/resource capacity, it has happened that the whole S/4 Transformation Program is delayed in one of the Releases because of Resource Capacity in a totally different Team which wasn't foreseen in the planning

Stick to the Plan

Protect Production

Protect the Program

If the Program is working and everything is going well, don't start trying to cut costs

FUE's

Rotating Keys

TLS Certificiates

When you Rotate Keys in S/4HANA make sure that all dependent systems have the new keys, eg MBC Multi Bank Connectivity has the S/4HANA certificate and you need to update it there too

Don't skip "Phase 0", plan to give Phase Zero the time it needs

Key Users

Key Users are one of the keys to a successful GoLive make sure they are trained and have all of the support they need

Key Users are your Ambassadors, make sure they have everything they need

Investment and Multi-Year Multiple Release/GoLive Transformations

Everything is relative, whatever you can afford, make sure to invest in the success of the first GoLive/Release,do not cut costs or corners on the first GoLive/Release, the first GoLive/Release MUST be a SUCCESS.

Subsequent GoLives/Releases will in general be a rinse and repeat of the template for how

the first GoLive/Release was executed and you can reduce costs on those GoLives/Releases

S/4 Data Transformation and Integration

We need to do Mapping and Transformations of Data, either at the SAP End or the other End - this is another challenge to the "Clean-Core" and the S/4 Transformations, there needs to be a principle, mappings/transformation must happen outside of the S/4

Technical GoLive should be separated / disconnected from the Business GoLive

Technical GoLive several months before Business GoLive

In your Release Planning, disconnect the Technical GoLives from the Business GoLives, separate the two, run the Technical GoLives a couple of months ahead of the Business GoLives, do not combine the Technical and Business GoLives

RISE Proactive Maintenance for S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Contractual Maintenance Periods

SAP and Customer agree regular periods where there can be downtimes for SAP to do Maintenance

Plan this in your Release Planning

S/4HANA Upgrades

In your multi-year Release Plan, make room for S/4HANA Upgrades to enable you to benefit from the latest SAP innovations

Capacity

You need to care for your Capacity and Data Volume Management

Basis Projects and Operations

You need to re-design your Project Basis Team and Operations Basis Team and methods of working according to the segregation of duties with the RISE ECS Team

Run SGEN straight after systems are delivered and before GoLives

Performance Tuning & House Keeping - that's your job

FUE Licensing Costs and SAP Roles and Authorisations

SAP RISE S/4HANA usage is measured and sized in what’s called FUE’s, Full Usage Equivalents, pay attention to this

SAP RISE AntiVirus

VSI is a extra service, not mandatory as of today

EWA Report

Pay very close to attention to it, it will become one of your best friends

S/4HANA FailOver and DR

Understand what you really get with 99.7 and 99.9 regarding Availability Zones and Regions

S/4HANA Preparation

Before installation, specify all Security Requirements and get them included in the installation and post installation

RISE is about Segregation of Duties on the Basis Team

RISE is about running Basis as a Factory with clear Roles and Responsibilities and Methods or Working

RISE is about Proper Planning an Preparation

Basis Trial and Error way of working evolves to Planning and Preparation way of working

Service Requests

Quality

Right First Time

SAP do not quality control Service Requests

Learn the Templates

RISE Technical Architecture

Is not the same as OnPremise

A RISE LoadBalancer or Application Gateway, does not necessarily work the same way on RISE as it does in your own DataCenter/HyperScaler even if they are the same

The SAP RISE Architecture View

Get from SAP as much technical architecture views of the RISE "Customer Setup" as possible

SAP Technical Architects are the an integral part of the new Basis Team

Basis Team benefits from being experienced and disciplined

RISE Architect from SAP

Get a SAP RISE Architect from SAP onboarded to the project from the beginning

SAP CALM is your new best friend

Sizing and Performance Testing better in than out

Trust and Verify

There are very useful RISE lessons learned here from @shaji_narayanan

Lessons Learned from SAP ERP Conversion to RISE wi... - SAP Community

Here is an excellent blog detailing the engine room lessons learned in a SAP S/4HANA RISE Migration with DMO by @savithakumar thank you...

SAP RISE - Key Learnings - SAP Community

And most of all, enjoy the RISE Journey 🛫

Andy Silvey.

SAP Technology Architect [Contractor]

Author Bio:

Andy Silvey is a 26 years SAP Technology veteran [15 years SAP Basis and 11 years SAP Tech Arch including Tech, Integration, Security, Data from 3.1H to S/4HANA PCE on RISE and the BTP and everything in between, and former SCN Moderator and Mentor alumni].

From History to Innovation: Analyzing Custom SAP System Evolution - A Primer

2024-12-18T11:06:54.729000+01:00

A Glimpse into the History of Custom SAP Systems

Consider the transport history of a small to medium-sized enterprise (SME). This record captures essential moments in the system's life - when transports occurred, who approved them, and which objects were moved into production. Such insights provide a clear picture of how the system has developed over time.

Example of ERP system workbench transport history (SME customer)Example of ERP system customizing transport history (same SME customer)

The volume of transported objects varies with company size. Larger enterprises often show a higher density of daily transports, reflecting more extensive system usage:

Another customer example of an SAP ECC workbench transport history. The blue hatched area represents the density of the daily transports as additional information

It becomes more interesting when we take the transport history of a software package (DEVLASS) as an example for this customer and plot the individual developers and their activities:

An example software package (DEVLASS) workbench transport history of this customer

Each horizontal line represents the activity of a user within the software package (DEVLASS). The names of the users are grayed out for privacy reasons)

When looking at the activities based on the workbench transport history and considering the time-limited activities of users along with their simultaneous or staggered actions, we can discuss the development history and the developers involved. This makes for a good conversation starter with the relevant development manager, system administrator, or subject matter expert: "Which developer is the most experienced?", "Was knowledge able to be passed on between developers?", "Can I identify development initiatives?", "These two developers are our best procurement process experts!"

The way this information is presented is well-suited for storytelling.

Storytelling and Reconstructed History

Storytelling transforms complex technical processes into relatable narratives. Instead of drowning stakeholders in dry details, the narrative approach fosters collaboration between IT teams and business stakeholders. When technical information is presented as a story, IT professionals can communicate their ideas more effectively, leading to richer discussions about system features and enhancements.

However, storytelling comes with its challenges. One risk is exaggeration or misrepresentation; presenting hypothetical scenarios as facts can create misunderstandings and unrealistic expectations. To maintain trust, it’s crucial that stories are grounded in real data.

Understanding the Evolution of Custom SAP Systems for Better Transformation

Every custom SAP system tells a story shaped by organizational decisions throughout its development. This narrative encompasses not just technical specifications but also the experiences of those involved. Analyzing this evolution helps organizations make informed decisions about their software strategies.

Having spent years in Custom Development and Innovative Business Solutions (IBSO), I’ve seen firsthand how important it is to examine software evolution. The method of Software Evolution Analysis arose from the need for quick communication with clients about custom systems. This analysis captures the essence of a system's history, showing how past choices influence current functions and future developments.

In future blog posts, I will go deeper into this topic, sharing examples and insights that demonstrate how storytelling can clarify the complexities of custom SAP systems. Additionally, I will showcase analyses and modeling techniques that further enhance our understanding of these systems.

References

Change and Transport System (CTS): https://support.sap.com/en/tools/software-logistics-tools/change-and-transport-system.html
Lehman, M. M., & Belady, L. (1974). "Program Evolution: Processes of Software Change." (remark: The article by Lehman was published in 1974, just two years after the founding of SAP in 1972 by former IBM employees.); Lehman, M. M. (1980). "Programs, Life Cycles, and the Laws of Software Evolution." In Proceedings of the IEEE.
Story telling as a term concerning software: Domain Storytelling is a collaborative modeling technique that brings together domain experts and development teams to visualize and narrate business processes, making domain knowledge transparent and actionable for software development (domainstorytelling.org, Quick-Start Guide, Book by Hofer & Schwentner). User Stories in agile development are concise, narrative requirements from the user's perspective, supporting iterative planning and user-centered design (domainstorytelling.org/domain-driven-design). Storytelling is also crucial in software introduction, as it helps communicate changes and benefits, motivates users, and eases adoption by embedding new systems in relatable narratives (gotopia.tech: The Power of Domain Storytelling).
Story telling and it's meaning from different aspects: Jerome Bruner’s influential book, Acts of Meaning (1990), explores how storytelling is fundamental to human sense-making and cultural understanding; the book is available through resources such as MIT’s PDF archive and the Internet Archive. In the field of evolutionary biology, Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin’s seminal article, “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme” (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 1979), critically examines adaptationist storytelling in evolutionary theory and can be accessed via JSTOR.

RMAN-06094: datafile 612 must be restored, issue in recovery of standby Oracle database

2024-12-22T22:21:24.544000+01:00

Recently during a on-premise to Azure migration of SAP NetWeaver running on Oracle, an issue was observed while attempting to perform a recovery of the Oracle database after the backup was successfully restored.

During the roll forwarding by applying the offline redologs, after a sequence was applied the below shown error interrupted the recovery even though offline redologs were available for further point in time recovery

RMAN-03002: failure of recover command at 12/21/2024 22:57:04

RMAN-06094: datafile 612 must be restored

After thoroughly checking the logs it was found that a new data file corresponding to the number 612 was created in the source DB after the backup was taken, hence it was not a part of the restore.

Solution:

First we need to locate the path of the new data file in the source system.

SELECT FILE#, NAMEFROM V$DATAFILEWHERE FILE# = 612;

Create the folder based upon the path taken from the previous SQL query

mkdir /oracle/SID/sapdata1/sr3_539

Run the command to create the data file to the newly created path

In the target database, login to RMAN and issue the below command

RUN {SET NEWNAME FOR DATAFILE 612 TO '/oracle/<SID>/sapdata1/sr3_539/sr3.data539';
RESTORE DATAFILE 612;}

Switch the datafile

In the target database, login to RMAN and issue the below command

SWITCH DATAFILE 612 TO COPY;

Issue the recovery command

In the target database, login to RMAN and issue the below command

recover database;

The remaining offline redologs start to get applied in the target database and roll forwarding completes.

Conclusion: If a new data file is created in the source database after the backup has been taken and the same backup is used to restore and recover the database on target then to ensure the point in time recovery, a corresponding blank data file needs to be created in the same path as it is created in source to facilitate roll forwarding by application of offline redologs.

Streamlining SAP Operations and Monitoring with SSM-SAP and Streamlit

2024-12-30T14:00:12.809000+01:00

Gartner predicts Cloud Will Become a Business Necessity by 2028. Migrating SAP to cloud is a strategic decision for many organizations.

AWS, a pioneer in cloud solutions, has consistently innovated new services and tools, such as the prescriptive Cloud Migration Framework, Migration Hub, and Launch Wizard. Most recently, AWS introduced a new tool: AWS Systems Manager for SAP (ssm-sap). This tool offers many features that organizations have been anticipating, including:

Registering and discovering SAP applications
Listing discovered SAP applications
Listing configurations of discovered SAP applications
Integration with AWS Backup

In this article, we will introduce the basics of ssm-sap and explore how to use it to:

Discover SAP systems
Monitor SAP systems
Perform basic operations such as starting and stopping SAP systems

Natively, ssm-sap is CLI-based. To visualize the operations in real time, we will use powerful web based visualization tool: Streamlit. In a sequel to this blog, we plan to provide all the codes used, and discuss more advanced topics such as performing system refreshes and auto-scaling.

Here we will explore the integration of AWS Systems Manager for SAP (SSM-SAP) with Streamlit to create a robust and user-friendly solution for managing SAP systems. By leveraging SSM-SAP's capabilities for discovery, automation, and monitoring, combined with Streamlit's interactive web application framework, we propose a solution that automates key tasks such as system discovery, visualization of system health, and execution of essential operations like starting and stopping SAP instances.

The proposed solution offers significant benefits, including:

* Simplified System Management: Streamlined processes for discovering and managing SAP systems.

* Enhanced Visibility: Real-time monitoring of system health.

* Automated Operations: Automated execution of common tasks, reducing manual effort and potential errors.

* User-Friendly Interface: An intuitive web interface for easy interaction and control.

By combining the power of SSM-SAP and Streamlit, we aim to empower SAP administrators to efficiently manage their SAP environments and improve overall system reliability.

I. Introduction to ssm-sap

AWS Systems Manager for SAP (ssm-sap) is a welcome addition to SAP management after Launch Wizard for SAP and AWS backup for HANA. It also integrates well with the other SAP facilities. If we provision SAP systems via Launch Wizard, ssm-sap registration and AWS backup are automatically configured during the process, as seen here from Launch Wizard screen.

In case that SAP servers are provisioned elsewhere, it is possible to register manually. Please refer to

We can use ssm-sap to discover all the SAP applications, databases and their components, e.g.,

aws ssm-sap list-applications
{
"Applications": [
{
"Id": "LaunchWizardnewhana2_HANA",
"DiscoveryStatus": "SUCCESS",
"Type": "HANA",
"Arn": "arn:aws:ssm-sap:us-east-1:123456789012:HANA/LaunchWizardnewhana2_HANA",
"Tags": {}
},
{
"Id": "LaunchWizardnewnw1_ABAP",
"DiscoveryStatus": "SUCCESS",
"Type": "SAP_ABAP",
"Arn": "arn:aws:ssm-sap:us-east-1:123456789012:SAP_ABAP/LaunchWizardnewnw1_ABAP",
"Tags": {}
},
{
"Id": "LaunchWizardnewnw1_HANA",
"DiscoveryStatus": "SUCCESS",
"Type": "HANA",
"Arn": "arn:aws:ssm-sap:us-east-1:123456789012:HANA/LaunchWizardnewnw1_HANA",
"Tags": {}
}
]
}

aws ssm-sap list-components --application-id LaunchWizardnewnw1_ABAP
{
"Components": [
{
"ApplicationId": "LaunchWizardnewnw1_ABAP",
"ComponentId": "ECD-D12-newnw2",
"ComponentType": "DIALOG",
"Tags": {},
"Arn": "arn:aws:ssm-sap:us-east-1:123456789012:SAP_ABAP/LaunchWizardnewnw1_ABAP/COMPONENT/ECD-D12-newnw2"
},
{
"ApplicationId": "LaunchWizardnewnw1_ABAP",
"ComponentId": "ECD-ASCS10-newnw2",
"ComponentType": "ASCS",
"Tags": {},
"Arn": "arn:aws:ssm-sap:us-east-1:123456789012:SAP_ABAP/LaunchWizardnewnw1_ABAP/COMPONENT/ECD-ASCS10-newnw2"
},
{
"ApplicationId": "LaunchWizardnewnw1_ABAP",
"ComponentId": "ECD-ABAP",
"ComponentType": "ABAP",
"Tags": {},
"Arn": "arn:aws:ssm-sap:us-east-1:123456789012:SAP_ABAP/LaunchWizardnewnw1_ABAP/COMPONENT/ECD-ABAP"
}
]
}

aws ssm-sap list-databases
{
"Databases": [
{
"ApplicationId": "LaunchWizardnewhana2_HANA",
"ComponentId": "HDB-HDB00",
"DatabaseId": "HDB",
"DatabaseType": "TENANT",
"Arn": "arn:aws:ssm-sap:us-east-1:123456789012:HANA/LaunchWizardnewhana2_HANA/DB/HDB",
"Tags": {}
},
{
"ApplicationId": "LaunchWizardnewhana2_HANA",
"ComponentId": "HDB-HDB00",
"DatabaseId": "SYSTEMDB",
"DatabaseType": "SYSTEM",
"Arn": "arn:aws:ssm-sap:us-east-1:123456789012:HANA/LaunchWizardnewhana2_HANA/DB/SYSTEMDB",
"Tags": {}
},
{
"ApplicationId": "LaunchWizardnewnw1_HANA",
"ComponentId": "HDV-HDB00",
"DatabaseId": "HDV",
"DatabaseType": "TENANT",
"Arn": "arn:aws:ssm-sap:us-east-1:123456789012:HANA/LaunchWizardnewnw1_HANA/DB/HDV",
"Tags": {}
},
{
"ApplicationId": "LaunchWizardnewnw1_HANA",
"ComponentId": "HDV-HDB00",
"DatabaseId": "SYSTEMDB",
"DatabaseType": "SYSTEM",
"Arn": "arn:aws:ssm-sap:us-east-1:123456789012:HANA/LaunchWizardnewnw1_HANA/DB/SYSTEMDB",
"Tags": {}
}
]
}

For each component of applications and each database, we may find their running status by get-component or get-database.

Hint: attach help at end of command to get a guide online in awscli.

aws ssm-sap get-component help

aws ssm-sap get-database help

Here is a list of all possible statuses:

The status of the component.

ACTIVATED - this status has been deprecated.
STARTING - the component is in the process of being started.
STOPPED - the component is not running.
STOPPING - the component is in the process of being stopped.
RUNNING - the component is running.
RUNNING_WITH_ERROR - one or more child component(s) of the parent component is not running.
UNDEFINED - AWS Systems Manager for SAP cannot provide the component status based on the discovered information. Verify your SAP application.

Through ssm-sap, starting and stopping SAP become as easy as:

aws ssm-sap start-application ...

aws ssm-sap stop-application ...

As seen, ssm-sap does provide comprehensive tools to discover, monitor and operate SAP systems. Nevertheless, when there are tens or hundreds of systems, it could become a daunting task to manage and monitor all by command lines. That is where visualization tool streamlit comes to the rescue.

II. Introduction to streamlit

Streamlit is an open-source Python library that makes it easy to create and share amazing custom web apps for machine learning and data science. In just a few minutes, you can build and deploy powerful data-driven applications. Streamlit is designed to be simple and intuitive, allowing users to transform data scripts into interactive web applications without requiring extensive web development knowledge.

Key Features,

Ease of Use: Streamlit allows you to create web apps with pure Python. No need for HTML, CSS, or JavaScript.
Interactive Widgets: Add interactive widgets like sliders, buttons, and text inputs with minimal code.
Real-Time Updates: Streamlit apps update in real-time as users interact with widgets, providing immediate feedback.
Data Visualization: Integrate with popular data visualization libraries like Matplotlib, Plotly, and Altair.
Deployment: Easily deploy your Streamlit apps to the web using Streamlit Sharing, Docker, or cloud services like AWS.

Please check https://docs.streamlit.io/get-started to start with streamlit.

Here is a simple example with intro.py,

import streamlit as st

import numpy as np

import pandas as pd

chart_data = pd.DataFrame(

np.random.randn(20, 3),

columns=['a', 'b', 'c'])

st.line_chart(chart_data)

Once kicking off "streamlit run intro.py", we have this chart,

There is a whole gallery of streamlit applications in : https://streamlit.io/gallery

III. Use streamlit to monitor and perform operations

By utilizing Streamlit, you can build an intuitive and interactive dashboard to monitor and operate SAP systems. This dashboard can call ssm-sap to perform various management tasks, providing a seamless and user-friendly interface for SAP administrators.

Initially all applications are in stopped states:

We click button Start All

In a few minutes, we will see HANA starts first.

Finally, all starts.

Summary:

By combining AWS Systems Manager (SSM) with Streamlit, one can create a powerful, cost-effective solution for monitoring and managing SAP environments. This setup leverages AWS’s robust management capabilities and Streamlit’s flexible visualization tools to provide a comprehensive solution that can save time and reduce costs associated with SAP system maintenance (patching and upgrade etc) and operations.

Understanding NACE Transaction Code in SAP

2025-01-03T15:57:17.520000+01:00

In SAP, effective document management is essential for seamless business operations. Transaction code NACE serves as a critical tool for configuring and managing output determination, enabling organizations to generate and distribute documents such as invoices, purchase orders, and delivery notes. This blog provides a comprehensive overview of NACE and its applications.

In SAP, the output management process plays a crucial role in generating and distributing business documents like invoices, purchase orders, and delivery notes. One of the primary tools used for configuring these outputs is the NACE transaction code. This blog will guide you through the process of creating and customizing an output type in SAP using NACE.

NACE T-code

NACE is a transaction code in SAP ABAP used for output determination. It helps in configuring and managing the output types for various documents like purchase orders, sales orders, delivery notes, and billing documents. Here's a brief overview of its components:

Application: Defines the type of document (e.g., EF for purchase orders, V1 for sales documents).
Output Types: Specifies the format and medium of the output (e.g., print, email, fax).
Processing Routines: Links the output type to the driver program and the form (e.g., SAP script or Smart form) used for generating the output.

Using NACE, you can dynamically determine the output based on various conditions, making it a flexible tool for managing document outputs in SAP.

Key Features of NACE

Centralized Configuration: Simplifies the setup and management of output determination for different business processes.

Support for Multiple Application Areas: Covers diverse areas such as sales (V1), purchasing (EF), and inventory management (ML).

Customizable Output Types: Allows the creation and configuration of custom output types tailored to business needs.

Integration with Forms: Supports integration with SAP script, Smart Forms, and Adobe Forms for document formatting.

SAP Output Processing – SAP Output Message with SAP NACE

This article explains how to create a new SAP Output Message using the NACE T-code. It provides a step-by-step tutorial covering all the necessary customizations to set up a fully functional output message type from scratch.

Create a new sap output message Type

Step 1: Call NACE T-code and Go to Output Types

Launch the SAP Transaction Code NACE for Conditions for Output Control.
First let’s select the Output Types as following and The Application (for Sales, Application is V1)

Step 2: Change display mode to edit mode then Create New entry

Step 3: Fill ID of SAP Output Message Type, description and access type

Create the output type with a custom name starting with "Z."

Step 4: Set NACE Output Type Dispatch Time for? sap output message

You can process a message immediately by updating the application document or you can process it at a later time. For later processing you must use the report program RSNAST00? or a corresponding application function.

Send with periodically scheduled job: The message is processed through report program RSNAST00. This report program can be scheduled periodically or started manually
Send with job, with additional time specification: As in time 1, but the message contains an earliest processing date and a requested processing time. The message is ignored by report program RSNAST00 before the requested date.
Send with application own transaction: The message is selected and processed by application specific programs. Processing can take place online or in the background
Send immediately (when saving the application): The message is processed when the application document is saved. No further processing of the message is necessary.

Step 5: Set Message Transmission Medium Specifies how the output will be produced.

You can specify, for example, that the output is printed or that it is produced and sent by other means, such as fax, electronic mail, or electronic data interchange (EDI/ IDoc).

Step 6: Set Partner Function a sample list of used function partner in Output Type

SP: Sold-To Party

BP: Bill-to Party

SH: Ship-To Party

PY: Payer

LS: Logical System?

Etc.......

Step 7: Set Processing routines

For each Transmission Medium, a processing routine must be configured. For this sample, the Output Type triggers an IDoc with the program RSNASTED within the routine EDI_PROCESSING.

You can leave all the rest of tabs blank.
When Saving, SAP will ask you for customization request. (Good point: Nace Configuration in transportable)

Step 8: Set Partner Functions Determination

Here by clicking the 'New Entries' fill the value as shown below

Step 9: Create Condition Records

Go Back to NACE transaction and select Condition Records
Remember we have configured the Access sequence defined in a previous step, create condition for output type. Step 10: Create Output Procedure

Go Back to NACE transaction and select Procedures

Step 11: Assign Output Procedure to transaction type

Go to SPRO Customizing and find where the customizing point to maintain Output Determination

Test Output Message

here the last step. test your output message and check if the SAP Output processing in well done.

(For Order, for example? try to modify an SAP order, then save. Go to message > Header > and check the output processing if it is green)

Troubleshooting

if Message Output doesn't appear in header > message on Transaction, verify this point:

Is record conditions meet the criteria of the Transaction?
Is record conditions maintained?

if you can add manually the Output type you have created, make sure this Output is used on output procedure (NACE) Active for the transaction type (SPRO)

Conclusion

Transaction code NACE is a powerful tool for configuring output determination in SAP. By following the steps outlined in this blog, you can create and manage output types effectively, ensuring smooth and automated document processing for your business processes. Whether you are dealing with invoices, purchase orders, or delivery notes, NACE provides the flexibility and control needed to meet your organization's requirements.

Netweaver Versions and EHP Versions Explained

2025-01-06T05:27:12.578000+01:00

Dear Guru's,

Happy New Year Everyone. Wishing Everyone a Healthy and Happy Life.

I have always faced issues or in understanding the Netweaver and EHP Versions while doing Upgrades or Netweaver Stack Upgrades.
Here I wanted to give a short information with respect to Netweaver Versions for understanding purpose which might help someone in getting a clear picture. Hope it Helps.
ECC --> Enterprise Core Component starts with ECC 6.0, ECC 6.0 EHP1 till ECC 6.0 EHP8.
NW --> Netweaver starts with Netweaver 7.0 till Netweaver 7.52.

Below are few information On ECC and Netweaver Versions.
ECC Versions with EHP8 Details:

S.No	Year Released	ECC Versions
1	2016	ECC 6 EHP8
2	2013	ECC 6 EHP7
3	2011	ECC 6 EHP6
4	2010	ECC 6 EHP5
5	2008	ECC 6 EHP4
6	2007	ECC 6 EHP3
7	2007	ECC 6 EHP2
8	2006	ECC 6 EHP1
9	2005	ECC 6.0

Netweaver Versions:

S.No	Year Released	Netweaver Versions	Comments
1	2015	7.5 ==> 7.50	NW 7.5
2	2013	7.4 ==> 7.50	NW 7.4
3	2011	7.3 EHP1 ==> 7.31	NW 7.3 EHP1
4	2010	7.3 ==> 7.30	NW 7.3
5	2009	7.2 ==> 7.20	NW 7.2
6	2009	7.1 EHP1 ==> 711	NW 7.1 EHP1
7	2007	7.1 ==> 710	NW 7.1
8	2011	7.0 EHP3 ==> 703	NW 7.0 EHP3
9	2010	7.0 EHP2 ==> 702	NW 7.0 EHP2
10	2008	7.0 EHP1 ==> 701	NW 7.0 EHP1
11	2005	7.0 ==> 700	NW 7.0

Netweaver 701 is included under NW 7.0 EHP1 same for NW 702 where same represents NW 7.0 EHP2. Here Enhancement Package is released for NW 7.0 alone 3 times say NW 7.0 EHP1, NW 7.0 EHP2 and NW 7.0 EHP3 where they read as NW 701, NW 702 and NW 703.

Same Applies for NW 7.31 where EHP1 released for NW 7.31.

It can be taken as like an Support Package or Patch Level versions kind of thing for understanding purpose.

Kindly do pour in your comments if any information is wrong or anything to be corrected.

Thanks and Regards,
Mithran

Deep insert in RAP by using Association and composition.

2025-01-17T15:25:45.650000+01:00

Introduction: - SAP’s Restful ABAP Programming Model (RAP), creating and managing complex transactional applications has become simpler and more structured. One of the powerful capabilities of RAP is Deep Insert, which allows you to handle hierarchical data structures (like headers and items) in a single API call. This feature is particularly useful for scenarios such as creating a Header item with multiple line items or managing a parent-child relationship in one transaction.

In this blog, we will explore Deep Insert in RAP. We will walk through creating a RAP-based application with a deep insert to handle hierarchical data in a single request.

Steps to create the deep insert: -

Step 1: -Create Two Database table (One header and second item): -

A)- Header table. (Inside header table it must to use the data element for the field which is going to use in foreign key relationship)

@EndUserText.label : 'Header table' 
@AbapCatalog.enhancementCategory : #NOT_EXTENSIBLE 
@AbapCatalog.tableCategory : #TRANSPARENT 
@AbapCatalog.deliveryClass : #A 
@AbapCatalog.dataMaintenance : #RESTRICTED 
define table zam_dt_emp_headr { 
key client : abap.clnt not null; 
key emp_id : zam_de_emp_id not null; 
emp_name : abap.char(20); 
emp_education_college : abap.char(20); 
}

B) Item table .

@EndUserText.label : 'Itemtable for scn blog' 
@AbapCatalog.enhancementCategory : #NOT_EXTENSIBLE 
@AbapCatalog.tableCategory : #TRANSPARENT 
@AbapCatalog.deliveryClass : #A 
@AbapCatalog.dataMaintenance : #RESTRICTED 
define table zam_dt_emp_item { 
key client : abap.clnt not null; 
@AbapCatalog.foreignKey.screenCheck : false 
key emp_id : zam_de_emp_id not null 
with foreign key [0..*,1] zam_dt_emp_headr 
where emp_id = zam_dt_emp_item.emp_id; 
key ph_no : abap.numc(10) not null; 
emp_address : abap.char(50); 
}

Step 2: -On top of Database view, we have create the Interface view for both the header and for item table: -

- A)- Interface view for Header table: -

@AbapCatalog.viewEnhancementCategory: [#NONE] 
@AccessControl.authorizationCheck: #NOT_REQUIRED 
@EndUserText.label: 'Interface view' 
@Metadata.ignorePropagatedAnnotations: true 
@ObjectModel.usageType:{ 
serviceQuality: #X, 
sizeCategory: #S, 
dataClass: #MIXED 
} 
define root view entity ZAM_I_EMP_HEADER 
as select from zam_dt_emp_headr 
composition [0..*] of ZAM_i_EMP_ITEM as _item 
{ 
key zam_dt_emp_headr.emp_id as EmpId, 
zam_dt_emp_headr.emp_name as EmpName, 
zam_dt_emp_headr.emp_education_college as EmpEducationCollege, 
_item 
}

B) -Interface view for item table: -

@AbapCatalog.viewEnhancementCategory: [#NONE] 
@AccessControl.authorizationCheck: #NOT_REQUIRED 
@EndUserText.label: 'Interface view' 
@Metadata.ignorePropagatedAnnotations: true 
@ObjectModel.usageType:{ 
serviceQuality: #X, 
sizeCategory: #S, 
dataClass: #MIXED 
} 
define view entity ZAM_I_EMP_ITEM 
as select from zam_dt_emp_item 
association to parent ZAM_I_EMP_HEADER as _header on $projection.EmpId = header.EmpId 
{ 
key zam_dt_emp_item.emp_id as EmpId, 
key zam_dt_emp_item.ph_no as PhNo, 
zam_dt_emp_item.emp_address as EmpAddress, 
_header 
}

Step 3: -On top of interface view we have to create the projection view for both header and item view.

A) - Header projection view: -

@EndUserText.label: 'Projection view for scn blog' 
@AccessControl.authorizationCheck: #NOT_REQUIRED 
define root view entity ZAM_P_EMP_HEADER 
as projection on ZAM_I_EMP_HEADER 
{ 
@UI.facet: [{ 
purpose: #STANDARD, 
position: 10, 
label: 'Header', 
type: #IDENTIFICATION_REFERENCE 
}, 
{ 
purpose: #STANDARD, 
position: 20, 
label: 'Item', 
type: #LINEITEM_REFERENCE, 
targetElement: '_item' 
}] 
@UI.lineItem: [{ position: 10, label: 'Emp Id' }] 
@UI.identification: [{ position: 10, label: 'Emp Id' }] 
key EmpId, 
@UI.lineItem: [{ position: 20, label: 'Emp Name' }] 
@UI.identification: [{ position: 20, label: 'Emp Name' }] 
EmpName, 
@UI.lineItem: [{ position: 30, label: 'Emp Education College' }] 
@UI.identification: [{ position: 30, label: 'Emp Education College' }] 
EmpEducationCollege, 
_item : redirected to composition child ZAM_P_EMP_ITEM 
}

B)- Projection view item table: -

@EndUserText.label: 'Projection view for item table' 
@AccessControl.authorizationCheck: #NOT_REQUIRED 
define view entity ZAM_P_EMP_ITEM 
as projection on ZAM_I_EMP_ITEM 
{ 
@UI.facet: [{ 
purpose: #STANDARD, 
position: 10, 
label: 'Item', 
type: #IDENTIFICATION_REFERENCE 
}] 
@UI.lineItem: [{ position: 10, label: 'Emp Id' }] 
@UI.identification: [{ position: 10, label: 'Emp Id' }] 
key EmpId, 
@UI.lineItem: [{ position: 20, label: 'Emp Phone' }] 
@UI.identification: [{ position: 20, label: 'Emp Phone' }] 
key PhNo, 
@UI.lineItem: [{ position: 30, label: 'Emp Address' }] 
@UI.identification: [{ position: 30, label: 'Emp Address' }] 
EmpAddress, 
_header : redirected to parent ZAM_P_EMP_HEADER 
}

Step 4: - On top of Header interface view we have to create the behaviour definition: -

managed implementation in class zbp_am_i_emp_header unique; 
define behavior for ZAM_I_EMP_HEADER //alias <alias_name> 
persistent table zam_dt_emp_headr 
lock master 
{ 
create; 
update; 
delete; 
association _item { create; } 
field ( readonly : update ) EmpId; 
mapping for zam_dt_emp_headr 
{ 
EmpId = emp_id; 
EmpName = emp_name; 
EmpEducationCollege = emp_education_college ; 
} 
} 
define behavior for ZAM_i_emp_ITEM //alias <alias_name> 
persistent table zam_dt_emp_item 
lock dependent by _header 
{ 
update; 
delete; 
field ( readonly : update ) EmpId ; 
association _header { } 
mapping for zam_dt_emp_item 
{ 
EmpId = emp_id; 
PhNo = ph_no; 
EmpAddress = emp_address; 
} 
}

Step 5: - On top of header projection view we have to create the behaviour definition.

projection; 
define behavior for ZAM_P_EMP_HEADER //alias <alias_name> 
{ 
use create; 
use update; 
use delete; 
use association _item { create; } 
} 
define behavior for ZAM_P_EMP_ITEM //alias <alias_name> 
{ 
use update; 
use delete; 
use association _header; 
}

Step 6: - Service definition.

@EndUserText.label: 'Service defination' 
define service ZAM_SERV_DEFINATION { 
expose ZAM_P_EMP_HEADER;\ 
expose ZAM_P_EMP_ITEM; 
}

Step 7: - On top service definition.

Output screen: -

Creating the header records

Record saves in Header database

Creating multiple item records for each header records.

Record saves in Item database .

Thanks for watching this blogs.

Use of SGEN after Upgrade in SAP

2025-02-11T14:23:49.274000+01:00

What is SGEN?

(SGEN Stand for SAP Generation Tool) is a serviceability which is used in SAP to regenerate or upgrade the SAP Kernel and Data Dictionary objects in the system. It is run after some certain activities, such as an upgrade, system refresh, or transport of new objects to ensure that all necessary components are correctly generated and available for use in the system.

Why We Run SGEN:

Here are the some primary reasons for running the SGEN transaction in SAP:

Regenerate Repository Objects:

When we perform system changes like upgrades, kernel updates, or transport requests that involve new or modified programs and objects (like ABAP programs, function modules, or Data Dictionary objects), SGEN is used to regenerate and optimize these objects.

Speed Up the System Performance:

Running SGEN precompiles the all ABAP objects and loads them into the shared memory, improving runtime performance. It essentially optimizes the load times of various programs and helps in reducing runtime errors by ensuring that all necessary components are generated.

System Refresh:

After performing a system copy or refresh, the system might not have all the required objects in a usable state, so running SGEN regenerates those objects to ensure they are ready for use in the new environment.

Incomplete Objects:

Sometimes, after transporting or performing system activities, some objects might not be fully available or need to be re-generated due to discrepancies. Running SGEN will correct these issues and make sure that everything is generated properly.

Update Kernel Files and Load Programs:

SGEN helps to ensure that all kernel files (like program source code or executables) are up-to-date and optimized, which can also include various libraries or specific functions required by the SAP system.

When to Run SGEN:

After a System Upgrade or Kernel Update: To regenerate kernel files, programs, and objects, ensuring that all new updates are correctly applied.
After a Transport Import: To regenerate objects and precompile them after transports, especially those that involve new or updated ABAP programs.
After a System Refresh or Copy: When moving the system to a new environment, SGEN will ensure that all objects are in a consistent and usable state.
After Large-Scale Modifications: If there are major changes to the system, such as custom developments, SGEN ensures that these are appropriately regenerated.

How to Run S-Gen:

You can run the SGEN tool by using transaction SGEN in the SAP GUI.

Note:- It runs From SAP*/DDIC user (SID did not have authorization).

Log in to SAP and go to the SGEN transaction.

Select the relevant options, such as:

Regeneration of all repository objects
Regeneration for specific objects or areas

Select all the Software component then Continue.

Execute the process.

The tool will then process the selected objects and regenerate or optimize them, depending on the settings.

Select-start job directly

Job is scheduled and we can monitored that job RSPARAGENR8

Check in SM37- Mentioned job in the Below snap

Important Considerations:

System Performance: Running SGEN can be resource-intensive, so it is best done during off-peak hours to minimize performance impacts.
Time Consumption: Depending on the size of the system and the number of objects to regenerate, this process may take a significant amount of time, so planning for an appropriate window is important.
Monitoring: You can monitor the progress of the SGEN job through transaction SM37 (for job monitoring) to ensure that it completes without issues.

In summary, SGEN is an important tool in SAP used to regenerate and optimize various components after system changes to ensure everything is functioning smoothly and efficiently.

Hope you enjoyed reading.

Conclusion-

We discussed how to SGEN works after any upgrade Like System Refresh, System Copy etc.

Related information's-

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sgen-an-overview/ba-p/13260642

https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sgen-faq/ba-p/13114262

Please share your feedback and your thoughts. Looking forward to questions and queries.

Thank you.

How to Release PR document from HOLD or PARK status using BAPI

2025-02-21T09:28:32.886000+01:00

Introduction:

A purchase requisition is an internal document used in an organization to request the procurement of goods or services. In SAP, efficient management of purchase requisitions is crucial for smooth procurement operations. This blog will provide a clear guide on releasing PR documents from HOLD or PARK status using BAPIs and releasing the document for further processing.

Understanding Parked and Hold Documents in SAP:

First, let's understand the PARK and HOLD options in SAP. These functionalities are essential for managing purchasing documents, allowing users to save them temporarily for later processing.

Hold: If the document has incorrect or incomplete data and you want to save it temporarily to process later, use the Hold option.

Park: If the document has complete and correct data but needs further workflow approvals or budget checks, use the Park functionality.

Activating Hold and Park options:

To activate the PARK and HOLD options in transactions ME51N, ME52N, and ME53N, follow these two steps:

Activate Business Functionality
- Go to T-Code SPRO.
- Click on Activate Business Functions
- Expand the folder Enterprise_Business_Functions and activate the functionality LOG_MM_CI_3.

2. Enable PARK and HOLD Features In T-Code SPRO, follow this path:
Materials Management --> Purchasing --> Environment Data --> Activate 'Park and Hold' in Purchasing Documents.

By completing these steps, you will enable the PARK and HOLD functionalities for purchasing documents in your SAP system.

Changing PR document status from HOLD or PARKED to SAVED using BAPI:

To change the status of a purchase requisition document from HOLD or PARKED to SAVED, you can use the BAPI “BAPI_PR_CHANGE.”.

Below is an example of how to implement this in ABAP:

DATA: ls_prheader  TYPE bapimereqheader,
      ls_prheaderx TYPE bapimereqheaderx,
      lt_return    TYPE TABLE OF bapiret2.

IF  ls_prheader-preq_no IS NOT INITIAL.

 ls_prheader = VALUE #( preq_no       = |{ ls_prheader-preq_no ALPHA = IN }|
                        park_complete = abap_false
                        hold_complete = abap_false
                        memorytype    = abap_false ).
  
 ls_prheaderx = VALUE #( preq_no       = abap_true
                         park_complete = abap_true
                         hold_complete = abap_true
                         memorytype    = abap_true ).

CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_PR_CHANGE'
  EXPORTING
   number     = ls_prheader-preq_no “Your PR Number
    prheader  = ls_prheader
    prheaderx = ls_prheaderx
  TABLES
    return   = lt_return.
IF VALUE #( lt_return[ type = 'S' ] OPTIONAL ) IS NOT INITIAL.
  CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT'
    EXPORTING
       wait = abap_true.
ELSE.
    ROLLBACK WORK.
ENDIF.
ENDIF.

Release Strategy:

The release strategy in SAP defines the approval process for purchase requisitions:

Purpose: Ensures PRs are reviewed and approved before conversion to purchase orders.
Release Codes: Each strategy can have up to eight release codes, indicating who must approve the requisition.
Approval Sequence: Specifies the order in which approvals must be obtained.
Assignment: Release strategies are assigned based on release conditions like document type and value.

Release Code:

A release code is a two-character ID that authorizes a person to approve or release a purchase requisition or external purchasing document.

Purpose: It serves as an electronic signature, replacing traditional handwritten approvals. This digitization streamlines the approval process and enhances efficiency.
Assignment: Release codes are assigned to employees based on their roles and authorization levels within the organization. For example, a clerk might have a release code for initial approvals, while a manager has a higher-level code.
Configuration:

Approval Process: The release strategy specifies which release codes must be used and the sequence of approvals required.

Releasing PR documents using BAPI:

To release a PR that needs approval from respective employees/approvers in your organization, you can use the BAPI - “BAPI_REQUISITION_RELEASE_GEN”.

Below is an example implementation:

DATA : lt_return TYPE TABLE OF bapireturn.
 
 CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_REQUISITION_RELEASE_GEN'
   EXPORTING
     number     = iv_pr_num       “Your PR Number
     rel_code   = iv_release_code “Release code
   TABLES
     return      = lt_return.
 IF VALUE #( lt_return[ type = 'S' ] OPTIONAL ) IS NOT INITIAL OR 
    lt_return IS INITIAL.
  CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT'
    EXPORTING
       wait = abap_true.
 ELSE.
    ROLLBACK WORK.
 ENDIF.

Finding Release Codes:

You can find release codes under the Release Strategy tab in transactions ME51N, ME52N, and ME53N.

The following tables are useful for retrieving relevant information:

EBAN: To get the release group and release strategy for the PR number.
T16FS: To get release codes for a particular release group & strategy.
T16FW: To get approver names/IDs for a release code.

Conclusion:

This blog emphasized the significance of parked and hold documents, the activation of essential functionalities, and the use of BAPIs to change PR statuses. We also explored the release procedure and strategy, illustrating how structured approvals can enhance efficiency in your procurement processes.

Thank you for reading!

Auto-Upgrade of SAPHOST-AGENT:

2025-02-28T10:31:36.915000+01:00

The SAP Host Agent (Version 720 with patch level 45 and higher) provides an automatic upgrade feature. 1473974 - Using the SAP Host Agent Auto Upgrade Feature - SAP for Me

Step-1:

Maintain the below parameters in host profile and restart the Host-agent

DIR_NEW=<path to a directory>

The directory location containing the new extracted SAP Host Agent version can be changed using this profile value.

hostexec/autoupgrade_delay=<minutes>

By default, SAP Host Agent performs the check on DIR_NEW five minutes after SAP Host Agent start and then periodically every 60 minutes.

This behavior can be changed using the profile value hostexec/autoupgrade_delay in the SAP Host Agent profile host_profile.

The minimum value can be 1 minute, the maximum value can be ~49 days.

However, the initial wait time (5 minutes by default) will not exceed 5 minutes.

For example

DIR_NEW = C:\temp\SAPHOSTAGENT
hostexec/autoupgrade_delay = 60

Restart the Hostagent: saphostexec –restart

Step-2:

Create an empty file “.upgrading” in the location C:\temp\SAPHOSTAGENT

To avoid that SAP Host Agent starts the upgrade procedure during the extraction of the .SAR (with the consequence that only partially the new version of SAP Host Agent will be used for an upgrade) you should create an empty file called .upgrading in the directory DIR_NEW. SAP Host Agent will not start an Auto Upgrade as long as the .upgrading file is present in DIR_NEW.

Download the latest SAPHOSTAGENT.SAR file in the location C:\temp\SAPHOSTAGENT

Extract the SAPHOSTAGENT.SAR file by using SAPCAR Executables

SAPCAR –manifest SIGNATURE.SMF –xvf <SAPHOSTAGENT.SAR>

Create a text file name “.delay” and it contains the below text
180random120

Step-3:

It's 16:00, and a new Host Agent has just been released.
I want to install the new SAP Host Agent to my landscape, and the upgrade should be delivered during the night, outside of office hours (i.e. 20:00).

hostexec/autoupgrade_delay is not changed. 60 minutes by default
SAP Host Agents are running for a while already
DIR_NEW is empty
content of “ .delay” is 180random120

This will delay the upgrade start 3 hours and add a random delay between 0 and 120 minutes on top the random part is 0.5 for this example, which will lead to a 4-hour delay (180 minutes + (120 minutes * 0.5))

The timestamp from which the delay will be calculated is the last modification or creation time of the “.delay” file
16:00 create .upgrading file in DIR_NEW
16:00 unpack the new SAPHOSTAGENT.SAR into DIR_NEW
16:00 create .delay file, content 180random120
16:00 projected auto upgrade start at 20:00 (creation time of .delay + 4 hours)
16:00 delete the .upgrading file from DIR_NEW
17:00 delay not yet expired
18:00 delay not yet expired
19:00 delay not yet expired
20:00 delay expired, auto upgrade starts

Cleanup

After a successful auto upgrade of the landscape, DIR_NEW should be cleaned to prevent further Auto Upgrade checks from the already up-to-date SAP Host Agents. This will greatly reduce the amount of network traffic towards DIR_NEW.

Please leave your valuable input in the comments section below.

Thanks,
Mani

Generating the System-info file for ABAP and JAVA systems and uploading into MP

2025-03-04T09:10:38.634000+01:00

You may need to manually add your SAP systems to the Maintenance Planner in a number of different scenarios. For instance, if your Solman isn't working properly or if high security settings prohibit this. To compute your update stacks for the systems and subsequently patch the systems, you require the most recent system data in the Maintenance Planner.

For ABAP Based Systems:

Step-1: Generate the Stack XML file by using SPAM T-code.

Step-2: SAP Support Portal Home –>Maintenance –> Maintenance Planner –> Access Maintenance Planner –>Explore Systems –> Add system

Double click on the Explore Systems tile

Choose Add System button placed on the top right-hand corner of the view.

An Add System dialog box is displayed with information about adding systems using the automated data replication of SAP Solution Manager.

Read the information and provide your confirmation by selecting the I Accept. checkbox and choose Next.

Upload the system information XML of your choice in the following ways:

Choose the Browse… button to upload any system information XML.

You can proceed further once the system successfully validates the selected system information XML.

Choose Next. The dialog box displays the following system details:

SID: System ID. If required, you can extend the SID.

Host: Database host

Type: Type of system. For example, ABAP, Java, dual.

Choose Next. Select the option why you are adding the system using system information XML and provide the reason.

Choose Upload. The system is added into the maintenance planner tool.

Now the System is successfully added into the MP.

For JAVA Systems:

Download and unpack a new SUM 1.0 instance as described the SUM user guide. To download the guide relevant for your system, go to https://support.sap.com/sltoolset - > System Maintenance -> Software Update Manager <version> -> Guides for for SUM <version>.

Place the file at the location J:\usr\sap\SID and extract the SUM sar file by using sapcar executable.

Navigate to /usr/sap/<SID>/SUM/sdt/param/ on Unix- based or IBM-I OS, or J:\usr\sap\<sapsid>\SUM\sdt\param on Windows, and open the startup.props file for editing.

Create a new line with the following parameter and setting: Scenario=SYS_INFO_EXPORT
For dual-stack systems you also have to add ABAP=false.

Save and close the startup.props file.

Register SUM in the SAP Host Agent using the following command:
For Windows: J:\usr\sap\<sapsid>\SUM\STARTUP.BAT
For UNIX, user root mandatory: /usr/sap/<SID>/SUM/STARTUP <SID>

Start SUM and complete one full run. Depending on the security setup of your system, use the following URL:
https://<hostname>:1129/lmsl/sumjava/<SID>/index.html
Note that the dialog about choosing a stack.xml-based scenario or a manually prepared directory is automatically skipped.

Enter the sidadm user credentials.

Enter the administrator or j2ee_admin credentials.

To acquire the system info XML file, navigate to /usr/sap/<SID>/SUM/sdt/htdoc/SysInfoExport.xml on Unix- based or IBM-I OS or <DRIVE>:\usr\sap\<sapsid>\SUM\sdt\htdoc\SysInfoExport.xml on Windows.
Alternatively, open a browser tab, go to http://<sum-hostname>:1128/lmsl/sumjava/<SID>/SysInfoExport.xml, and copy the information from there.

For more details, please follow the KBAs below.

Generation of Maintenance Planner Transaction ID for the SAP ABAP system

2025-03-06T16:57:12.461000+01:00

Hello, everyone.

In this article, we will discuss the Generation of Maintenance Planner Transaction ID for the SAP ABAP system.

Get system details such as installed product versions, components, and database version.

SAP Support Portal Home –>Maintenance –> Maintenance Planner –> Access Maintenance Planner –>Explore Systems–>Enter the SID in search bar–>double click on the SID–>click on the center of the circle (SID).

Click on the plan

Check the radio button update SAP NetWeaver for NW SPS updates.

Select the required SPS and click on the confirm selection button.

Please ensure that the selected SPS has been updated in the Target software information.

In our case SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SPS 32

Similarly, repeat the process for EHP3 for SAP SCM 7.0 SPS-Update.

Select the radio button of Install or maintain an Enhancement Package –>EHP3 for SAP SCM 7.0 –> Required SPS–>Click on the confirm selection

Please ensure that the selected SPS has been updated in the Target software information.

In our case EHP3 for SAP SCM 7.0 SPS 29.
SAP SCM 7.0 SPS 26 is inclusive of EHP3 for SAP SCM 7.0 SPS 29

Click on the next button.

In our case BI_CONT version is 747.

Check the SAP NW 7.31 BI content addon 747

Details of OS/DB files –>Select OS (In our case Windows) –>

Check the following and click on the confirm selection
SAP-ASE (Internally contains DB dependent kernels)
SAP-Hostagent 7.22
SAP IGS 7.53/7.54 (Depends on Kernel)
Software Update Manager (Depends on ABAP/JAVA)

For IGS Version, please follow the 1491848 - What IGS should I be using with my Web AS? - SAP for Me

Verify once again by dropping down the OS_DB, ABAP, NON-ABAP and Stack independent files.
If any component patch level is not required, you can un-Check that component and click on the next

For Stack XML file: click on the Download stack xml

For SPS update Plan document: Drop-down additional downloads –> Download PDF

Click on the push to download basket (all required s/w components will be added in to basket with date and time stamp)

Thanks,
Mani

Internet Communication Manager Admin page issue in SAP

2025-03-11T15:36:26.825000+01:00

Sometime we are getting an issue where if a user/non-user browses to the below mentioned type of link, Where they on the network or public internet, they can see the below information without having to login, we need to get this restricted this, so this blog motive is how to restrict the information details.

Example:- https://apps.Name.gov.int/sap/admin/public/index.html

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How to fix this:-

There is a parameter that is allowing this information to be shown without having to sign in, and gives a sign in option in the top right and a message saying Monitoring Rights granted.

First, we make changes in icm/HTTP/admin_0 parameter. You can set the same in DEFAULT profile

Like show below:

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Request you to set icm/HTTP/admin_0 as below:

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Update the below mentioned new Value and Save and Restart the SMICM.

icm/HTTP/admin_0 = PREFIX=/sap/admin, DOCROOT=S:\usr\sap\SID\DVEBMGS00\data\icmandir/admin, AUTHFILE=S:\usr\sap\SID\SYS\global\security\data\icmauth.txt, ALLOWPUB=FALSE

Sometimes in RZ10 restricted the characters, which we put in that new parameter. Then we make change in server in Default parameter directory (usr/sap/SID/SYS/profile/default) and paste the below parameter. Like shown below and save.

icm/HTTP/admin_0 = PREFIX=/sap/admin,DOCROOT=S:\usr\sap\SID\DVEBMGS00\data\icmandir/admin, AUTHFILE=S:\usr\sap\SID\SYS\global\security\data\icmauth.txt, ALLOWPUB=FALSE

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Moreover, after the make change in Parameter We need to take a restart of only ICM. Full system restart will not be needed. You can restart the ICM via SMICM T-code as well.

Jus log on SAP GUI and RUN SMICM>Administration>Exit Soft>Global

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Moreover, refresh the system after some time SMICM is fixed and portal show the restriction and login message popped up.

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In summary, we are getting an issue where if a user/non-user browses, where the network details is public,

this blog help to how to solve the issue.

Hope you enjoyed reading.

Conclusion-

We discussed how to solve the ICM issue on portal, and how to restrict it on portal with the parameter.

Related information's-

https://help.sap.com/doc/saphelp_nw74/7.4.16/en-US/48/89061f33b11b5ae10000000a42189c/content.htm?no_cache=true

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_NETWEAVER_AS_ABAP_752/077f95b579a0474fbef5d520be10b680/5a915311b729421089f7706f9ee6771e.html

Dispatcher is Stopped - disp+work, Dispatcher, GREY, Stopped.

2025-03-25T17:00:00.122000+01:00

Check the below points.

1. Check R3trans -d (If R3trans finished (0012)) then check the logs.

2. Navigate to /usr/sap/SID/D<XX>/work

3. check dev_w<xx> ( ex: dev_w32) work process for the logs. Found below error in the log.

Error:

*** ERROR => Connect to database failed, rc=1, rcSQL=10
[dbhdbsql.cpp 647]
C SQLCODE : 10
C SQLERRTEXT : authentication failed
B ***LOG BY2=> sql error 10 performing CON [dbsh 1289]
B ***LOG BY0=> authentication failed [dbsh 1289]
B ***LOG BY2=> sql error 10 performing CON [dblink 689]
B ***LOG BY0=> authentication failed [dblink 689]
M ***LOG R19=> ThDbConnect, db_connect ( DB-Connect 000256) [thDatabase.c 88]
M in_ThErrHandle: 1
M *** ERROR => ThInit: db_connect (step TH_INIT, thRc ERROR-DB-CONNECT_ERROR, action STOP_WP, level 1) [thxxhead.c 2808]

Resolution:

1. Login to Hana Studio with SYSTEM user of tenant. Also login with schema user as well. ( Check whether credentials or working or not )

2. In my case the schema ( SAPABAP1) password is not working so the system application failed to connect to db.

3. Reset the schema password. Login to Tenant DB ( SYSTEM User ) -> Security -> User -> SAPABAP1 -> Update Password -> Execute.

4. Update the schema password in hdbuserstore list.

4.1 Make a note of existing env details.{ hdbuserstore list }

4.2 Delete the DEFAULT key. { hdbuserstore delete DEFAULT }

4.3 Update the password using below command:

hdbuserstore set DEFAULT "ENV@Database SID" <Schema User> <Password>

Now check R3trasn -d ( R3trans finished (0000)). Start the system now. System should be up and running.

Support package stack updates for SAP ABAP systems: Software Update Manager

2025-03-25T19:42:17.697000+01:00

Hello, BASIS Team.
In this article, I'd like to discuss the SPS update procedure from the scratch for ABAP systems.

To obtain approval to carry out the activity, we must first prepare the technical plan document.

Pre-requisites:
1. Request access for the ddic user.
Validate user by logging into the system and collect the following information.

Installed Softwares and their SPS levels and components.
License Information.
SPAM/SAINT Version.
Kernel version and their patch level.

2.For Windows applications, use sidadm and sapserviceSID as user credentials.
Linux requires sidadm and root privileges.

Validate the user credentials using RDP for Windows & Putty/Moba for Linux operating systems and capture the following information.

SAP-Host agent version and their patch levels.
Kernel version and their patch levels.

3. For database types of ASE: sapsa, sapsso, and sa users' credentials.
HANA: system user credentials.

Process:

1.Create a stack XML file and add software components to the download basket.

Follow the below article for Maintenance planner transaction ID generation.

Generation of Maintenance Planner Transaction ID f... - SAP Community

If there is a problem with synchronizing data in maintenance planner and Solman is unavailable, you must manually sync the system data.

Generating the System-info file for ABAP and JAVA ... - SAP Community

Generation of stack xml for sub-sequent systems in the landscape (i.e. Quality and Production)

2419417 - Maintenance Planner - Copy a stack XML for an identical system - SAP for Me

SAP Support Portal Home –>Maintenance –> Maintenance Planner –> Access Maintenance Planner–>Explore Transactions –>

Choose the system from the center of the maintenance planning cycle

Choose Software tab and choose Generate Stack XML Copy

In the Generate Stack XML Copy dialog box, enter or choose the technical system (SID) for which you want to generate a stack XML copy.

Note:

No new transaction is created when you generate a copy of the stack XML.
The feature is only available for update or upgrade transactions and for transactions generated for technical systems with product maintenance dependency.
The feature is not available for SAP S/4HANA conversions and does not include transactions for system tracks.

2.The media files can be downloaded using the SAP download manager.

3. Transfer the media files to the server, ensuring suitable permissions and ownership.

Disk space in the file system for the SUM directory, the download directory, and directory DIR_TRANS.
The space required depends on the product you are updating.

SAP suggested at least 40 GB of free space for both the SUM and download directories, as well as 20 GB for the DIR_TRANS directory.

The Software Update Manager calculates the database's space requirements. The required amount of free space ranges from 50 to 200 GB.

In our case we placed at <Drive>:usr\sap\SID\Downloads

Move the sum.sar file from downloads to <Drive>:usr\sap\SID and extract the sum.sar file with sapcar

After successful extraction, a new directory will be created under the name SUM.

4. Launch the SUM tool with the following command.

Paste the above URL in any web browser.

https://<fully qualified hostname>:1129/lmsl/sumabap/<SID>/slui

Enter the sidadm user credentials and click on the sign in button.

If there is an issue with launching the SUM URL.

It might be attributed primarily to the SAP host agent. (Faulty installation, incorrect permissions, etc.). Dev_saphostexec and sapstartsrv.log (found in the /work directory) are crucial logs for resolving common UI issues on the SAP host agent side.

If no apparent problem is observed in these logs, try increasing their trace level by following.

Open the SAP Host Agent profile ( host_profile ) which is located in the exe directory of the SAP Host Agent (/usr/sap/hostctrl/exe/ or C:\Program Files\SAP\hostctrl\exe\).
Add or modify the required values, for example:
hostexec/trace = 3
service/trace = 3
Restart SAP Host Agent by executing saphostexec -restart.

Resolution can be found from the below KBA's

2475146 - SUM : logon via SAP Host Agent is failing "Unable to locate the requested resource" or "<hostname>\<sidadm> is not authorized to process the operation ExecuteOperation" - SAP for Me

The Software Update Manager internally calls the SAPup executable. Technically, SAPup is started twice,
which is visible in the process list. One entry with gt=httpchannel represents the SAPup handling the
requests coming from the SAP Host Agent. The second SAPup with parameter guiconnect triggers tools
such as R3trans, tp, or R3load.

For windows: Task manager will list ou

###############################Roadmap-Phase###################################

Specify the path of stack XML file i.e. Drive<Name>:\usr\sap\SID\Downloads and click the next button.

Click the next button after selecting the Standard Configuration scenario for the strategy.

Check Archive Authenticity: Select the check box if the authenticity of all archives in the download directory shall be checked.
Switch expert mode on: Select the checkbox if you want to decide on additional options to adapt the tool configuration. If you want to enter a specific instance number and a password manually, choose the option Switch expert mode on in the initial dialogs. Make sure that you enter an instance number that is not used in your system landscape.

Customer Transport Integration: Include customer transport requests to reduce business downtime.
This option is only available for strategy modes Standard or Downtime-optimized. It is not displayed if
Single System has been selected.
Select the checkbox Customer Buffer File, if a customer buffer file shall be considered that contains
customer transports for the target release. A subsequent dialog prompts you to enter the path and the
name of the buffer file.

Select the radio buttons Check archive authenticity & Switch expert mode.

Download the file from this link: https://tcs.mysap.com/crl/crlbag.p7s.
Move the downloaded file to <Drive>:\usr\sap\SID\Downloads.
Then click the next button.

###################################Extraction-Phase###############################

These passwords are stored in the memory file MEMSAPup.dat and it is located in /usr/sap/SID/SUM/abap/mem
Although the passwords are encrypted, you have to deny the access to the mem subdirectory for other
operating system users. Only the <sapsid>adm user needs access to this subdirectory. In addition, you should not share this subdirectory in the network. If you save the SUM directory for later analysis After the update has finished, delete the file MEMSAPup.dat.
ddic credentials are needed for the RFC connection to the SAP system. To be able to perform all necessary actions, the user DDIC needs the authorization SAP_ALL.

Usually, it is not necessary to change the password of the user DDIC during the upgrade. If you do change
the password, you have to change it in the original system, the shadow system, and in the Software Update Manager.

Enter the credentials for ddic, sapserviceSID, and system.

Click the Next button.

Scans the entire update directory i.e. /usr/sap/SID/SUM/Downloads

Extracts all sar files into /usr/sap/trans/EPS/in, excluding the files indicated below.

SAP hostagent
SUM
Kernel files

If a newer version of spam/saint is found in the update directory, sum will update the spam tool.

Extracting the kernel executables from either the update directory or the global directory (depending on your system kernel version) to /usr/sap/SID/SUM/abap/exe (such as sapexe, sapexedb, R3trans, igs, igshelper, and vc_redist.

If installed kernel is the latest, then kernel extraction will be done from global directory to <Drive>:usr\sap\SID\abap\exe.
For example, if the system kernel is the most recent version, the SUM will appear as shown below.

Drop down each step to get more information, then click the next button.

#################################Configuration- Phase##############################

Select the radio option for "No disabling of the database archive mode."

ABAP Processes (Uptime & Downtime):

This parameter determines the number of processes used in job phases. It affects all job-run phases, including long runtime ones such as DBCLONE (in update situations), ACT_UPG and PARDIST in uptime, and XPRAs in downtime.

The DBCLONE phase has a technical restriction of 10 parallel processes at most, therefore increasing the number would not assist.

SQL Processes (Uptime & Downtime):

This option specifies the number of parallel SQL statements to be executed on the database at the same time. This setting is especially beneficial for the DDL (data definition language) phases, such as MVNTAB and PARCONV, where commands like "create table," "alter table," "create index," and others are executed. This parameter is also used by the phases that construct aliases/synonyms for the shadow system (SCEXEC_GRANT + SCEXEC_ALIAS), albeit to a lesser extent. The recommended value is the total number of physical CPUs.

R3trans Processes (Uptime & Downtime):

This parameter is used for tp and R3trans transport tools in parallel during the phases where support packages are imported (DDIC_UPG, SHADOW_IMPORT*, and TABIM_UPG).

Recommended value is 1 to 2 times the CPU, with a maximum of 50 CPUs.

If your CPU is multi-core, the SAP system will treat it as a physical, available CPU.
For example, if you have four quad-core CPUs, the SAP system will recognize them as sixteen CPUs in ST06. In this situation, you can put '16' for both the UPTIME and DOWNTIME R3TRANS PROCESSES fields (note that standard transport requests import may still occur during uptime, and they share the same tp/R3trans resources). So, avoid importing requests during upgrades.

R3load Processes (Uptime & Downtime):

This parameter guides the upgrade tool how many R3load processes will be executed during phases EU_IMPORT* (in system releases upgrade) and DMO (data migration option) scenarios to transfer data from the old database to the new HANA one. Because R3load uses modest CPU processing, you can safely specify a large value for this parameter: 3 to 5 times the number of CPUs.

Select the radio button Automated batch job distribution (If you have multiple instances and batch job load scheduling is scheduled)

In our case, select the radio button HOSTNAME_SID_<nn>

Uncheck the Start ABAP Load Generation During Update checkbox and then click the Next button.

SAP Load Generator (SGEN) is a transaction that compiles ABAP repository objects that are newly supplied into the system, either through an installation or an upgrade/support package import. The term "Load" refers to an ABAP runtime object used in ABAP settings.
The ABAP objects are stored on their source code in table REPOSRC and on their runtime state in table REPOLOAD.

If you selected the Advanced pre-configuration mode in SUM, you would get the following prompt

Choose an execution strategy for transaction SGEN.

Do not start ABAP load generation during the update

If you plan to apply a high number of relevant changes to your system in the form of SPS updates or upgrades. We recommend that you generate the ABAP loads manually at end of post-processing phase.

Generate ABAP loads on shadow system during uptime.

With this option, the Software Update Manager uses the maximum number of processes entered below to generate the loads in the shadow instance during the uptime in the update phase SUBMOD_SHD2_RUN/RUN_RSGEN.

Usually, the shadow SGEN prolongs the uptime part of the update procedure or several hours. If you run into unexpected time issues with your update schedule and you want to save the SGEN time, you can abort a running shadow SGEN by executing the report RSUPG_SGEN_ABORT_SHADOW in the shadow system. Use the DDIC user for the logon. Note that as soon as the SUM run is completed, you have to perform a manual SGEN run to generate the missing loads.

Generate ABAP loads on shadow system during uptime and start asynchronously in post downtime.

With this option, the Software Update Manager uses the maximum number of processes entered below to generate the ABAP loads in the shadow instance during the uptime in the update phase SUBMOD_SHD2_RUN/RUN_RSGEN

The transaction SGEN automatically starts again after the downtime during the Postprocessing roadmap step to regenerate the ABAP loads that were invalidated during the downtime in phase MAIN_POSTP/RUN_RSREGENLOD

In the development system, we'll select our own SPDD transport request radio button.
Don't fill anything in SPDD and SPAU transport
then click the next button.

For sub-sequent systems in the landscape SPDD request will be displayed as radio button.
Fill the SPDD and SPAU transports.
Check the radio button Yes, I want to check the modification requests and click on the next button.

Click on the next button.

In our case, we will not change the version of the add-on product.
Click the "Next" button.

If the SUM identifies more support packages in the download directory or TRANS folder that are acceptable for upgrading the target system, the notification "Deviations to calculated level found" appears.

You can mark the checkbox "Take over calculated level" to take over the calculated support package level.
For Example:

If you do not click the box, the SUM process will continue with the support package level given in the column "Current Level".

Click on the next button.

Assign the instance number to the shadow instance and then click the Next button.

Assign the password for the Database Shadow user and click the next button.

Choose the radio button "no" and click the next button.

Drop-down each step for more information, then click the next button.

################################Checks- Phase##################################

No manual input is required.
DB related parameters and DB space verified here.

Click on the next button.

###############################Preprocessing- Phase##############################

After getting approval from the Application Development Manager, click the radio button to lock the development environment now before proceeding to the next step.

Approval from several teams is required because the landscape has been locked, and no changes will be allowed.

If there are any modifiable state requests in the system, it will display a list of open repairs.
Inform the corresponding team, who will include all changes into the request and release it.
Click on the next button.

DB Clone Phase:

During this phase, the target system (shadow system) is copied from the current system. The Software Update Manager initiates background processes to copy the necessary tables for the shadow system's operation.

Depending on your system and your hardware, this operation can take several hours. These background jobs are executed on the background server that is configured with the BATCH HOST parameter. The number of jobs is determined by the parameter MAX BATCH PROCESSES. It cannot be higher than nine or the number of background processes configured on the background server.
Each table is copied with a single INSERT statement. Therefore, the administrator has to take care that the undo-logs can grow accordingly.

Each cloning job writes a log file called DBCLONE<NUMBER>.<SID>.
At the end of the phase, all errors found in these log files are collected in the DBCLONE.ELG file.
The information in the DBCLONE.ELG file is rather sparse. Therefore, you also have to check the corresponding log files to find detailed information about the error.

SAPup automatically starts the shadow instance in the START_SHDI_* phases. You can manually start or
stop the shadow instance using the commands SAPup startshd or SAPup stopshd.
To lock or unlock the shadow instance, use the commands SAPup lockshd or SAPup unlockshd.

To perform SPDD modifications, proceed as follows:

1. The Software Update Manager prompts you to confirm that you want to perform a modification adjustment.
2. Add an entry for the shadow instance to the SAP Logon. For the server and system ID, use the values from the original system
For the instance number, use the value you specified in the preparation units for the shadow instance. The default value is the instance number of the original system plus one.
Since the original system is still running if you use the scenario strategy Standard or Downtime-optimized, you can also log on to the shadow instance in transaction SM59 with the RFC connection SAP_UPGRADE_SHADOW_SYSTEM.

3. Log into the shadow instance as user DDIC with the DDIC password of the original system.
Only the users DDIC and SAP* exist in the shadow instance.
4. To set the system change option, call transaction SE06. Perform the following actions
Set the global setting to Modifiable.
Set the change option for the software components to Modifiable or Restricted modifiable.
Set the SAP namespace to Modifiable.
5. Call transaction SU01 to create one or more users to perform the modification adjustment. The new users exist only on the shadow instance and are not copied to the original system.
Release upgrade only: Copy the user DDIC of client 000. SPS update: Since all users of client 000 are copied in the DBCLONE phase to the shadow instance, any of them can be used for the modification adjustment.
6. Log into the shadow instance with one of the new users. Modification adjustment of ABAP Dictionary objects has to be performed in client 000.
7. To determine the ABAP Dictionary objects that must be adjusted, call transaction SPDD.

Error related to SPDD.

Applied the resolution (cause-B) available in the 1735879 - Error occurs in phase MAIN_POSTP/UEXP_SPAU or MAIN_POSTP/UEXP_SPDD or MAIN_SHDRUN/UEXP_SPDD_SAV - SAP for Me

Ensure that the following actions are done.

Stop all production activities.
Ensure that no scheduled batch jobs can start anymore, and await regular completion of currently running jobs
Make sure that all users have logged out.
Isolate the application server instance (AS instance) as described in the SUM guide, section “isolating the instance’’

Check the radio button Actions completed, then click the next button.

Perform the full DB backup and take backup of SUM directory
Select the radio button Backup completed

Click the next button.

#############################Execution- Phase##################################

Possible Errors in this phase:

1. There is a mismatch in the kernel versions and their patch levels in the ASCS and D00 instances.
During the KX_switch phase, D00 upgraded to the latest kernel from the /usr/sap/SID/SUM/abap/exe directory, but ASCS still had the old kernel executables in the instance specific instance.

Please check the dev_disp log in Drive<Name>: \usr\sap\SID\D<nn>\work
Error: Kernel is not compatible with the system

Please check the kernel version and patch level by executing disp+work in instances like ASCS and PAS by going to path
Drive<Name>:\usr\sap\SID\ASCS<nn>\exe

Drive<Name>: \usr\sap\SID\D<nn>\exe

If any mismatch in Kernel version, then execute the below command in the global profile

Drive<Name>: \usr\sap\SID\SYS\profile: sapcpe pf=<Instance Profile>

Check kernel versions now and restart the application

Resolution: Using the sapcpe command, copy the global kernel executable to the directory appropriate to the ASCS instance.

2. Follow the resolution in the below KBA's

2963518 - FAIL: process igswd.EXE IGS Watchdog not running - SAP for Me

3. Manually move the executables to another location

################################Postprocessing- Phase################################

Downtime:

The time during which you cannot use the system productively.
The upgrade strategy determines when downtime begins during an upgrade.

The duration of the downtime depends on several factors, including:
• Hardware
• Modifications and enhancements of SAP Objects
• Customer developments
• Add-on software
• Integration of Support Packages

Business downtime: The total time during which the SAP system is not available to end users.

Technical downtime: The time during which the SAP system is not available due to processing routines in the system launched by the SUM tool.

SUM technical downtime: The time during which the system is not available due to processing during the
SUM runs.

UPGANA File: The report generated upon successful execution additionally contains the time statistics of the performed update, for example, the calculated SUM technical downtime value.

This file will be very useful for taking downtime approval and addressing issues in each phase for the sub-sequent systems in the landscape.

For SUM 1.1: <Drive>:\usr\sap\SID\SUM\abap\doc

For SUM 2.0: <Drive>:\usr\sap\SID\SUM\abap\htdoc\analysis

If you encounter any problems when opening the UPGANA file, please refer to the KBA below.

3412465 - UPGANA.XML not visible (blank page) - SAP for Me

Post-Steps:
1.To release the suspended jobs, execute the report BTCTRNS2 in sa38.

2. Triggering SGEN

Select the check box Regenerate after SAP system upgrade option and click on the components

Select all the components and click on the continue.

Click on the continue button.

Select all the application servers and click on the continue button.

In the event that the system has many applications server's setup, you will get the following screen.

A time out error may occur when the generation set is calculated. You must increase the value of the profile option max_wprun_time, which determines the maximum runtime of a dialog procedure.

In our case Generation set contains 432,668 objects.
Select the job and click the flag button (Execute immediately), which will run the RSPARAGENER8M background job.

You can check the status of the job by using the refresh button.

You need to analyze SM37(RSPARAGENER8M), SM21, ST22 and ST11.

Following the execution of SGEN, you can verify table GENSETM.

If the GENSTATUS flag is X, it indicates that the object's generation has been completed.
If the GENSTATUS flag is set to S, the object's generation failed due to a syntax errors.
If the GENSTATUS flag is E, this indicates that the object's generation failed due to a system error.
If you do not see an entry for the object in GENSETC or GENSETM, it signifies that it was not selected during SGEN execution or that a new SGEN execution was initiated.

432,575 Objects generation has been completed.

91 objects generation failed due to syntax error.

Involve the ABAP and functional teams for better understanding.

There are several reasons that cause syntax error. In any case, you need to identify the component of the objects and query the component about whether the syntax error can be ignored.

Program does not have a main program defined.
Old programs that are not used anymore.
Switch linked to the object is off, and program will not be executed until it is turn on.
A real syntax error issue.

2 object's generation failed due to a system error.

You need to analyze SM37(Job name: RSPARAGENER8M), SM21, ST22 and ST11.

Possible Errors during the launch of SUM URL:

Possible errors during Extraction Phase:

3154296 - [ASE Error SQL4601] or DBSL error 99 (db code 4002) in SUM - SAP for Me
If there is a conflict between the Stack.xml content and the download directory

Possible errors during Configuration Phase:

Possible errors during Checks Phase:

All DB related errors like

DB free Space
DB specific parameters
DB Patch Update
Implementation of Snotes (Depends on the SUM version and patch level. Sometimes it occurs in the extraction and configuration phases.

Possible errors during Pre-processing Phase:

1901463 - How to unlock the SAP system to perform correction(s) during an upgrade. - SAP for Me
1790486 - SAP_ABA is in an undefined state that is not safe to be upgraded - SAP for Me
1972214 - Error during Upgrade: ABAP batch job fails with error "Log writer aborted with RC 1" - SAP for Me
2530440 - How to configure DIR_PUT in AL11 for the upgrade directory - SAP for Me
Starting and stopping issues with shadow instances.

Possible errors during Execution Phase:

2963518 - FAIL: process igswd.EXE IGS Watchdog not running - SAP for Me
Startup issues with system.

For any kind of error during update, please refer to the KBA below

2920107 - How to analyze detailed error log files of SUM during the update/upgrade of a NetWeaver ABAP system - SAP for Me

Thank you for reading. If you find this informative, do not forget to hit a like or leave a comment.

Thanks,

Mani

SAP on IBM i: IBM i 7.6 certified for SAP Solutions

2025-05-15T09:09:55.688000+02:00

As of April 15, 2025, SAP released IBM i 7.6 for all SAP Solutions running on SAP NetWeaver.

The certification is valid for SAP NetWeaver 7.x based products that have been in Mainstream or Extended Maintenance at the beginning of 2025 (see SAP Platform Availability Matrix and Maintenance Strategy). For additional information refer to SAP Notes 68440 and 3589826.

IBM i 7.6 has been announced by IBM on April 8th, 2025, and is generally available since April 18th, 2025. For details about this release, we would like to point you to the official IBM Release Announcement AD25-0031 and the IBM i 7.6 – Base Enhancements overview.

Sunset of BEx Tools in SAP BW - What You Need to Know Before October 2025

2025-05-20T14:45:44.756000+02:00

Introduction: Sunset of BEx Tools - A Critical Milestone by October 2025

IMPORTANT UPDATE (10/15/2025):

BEx Analyzer and BEx Precalculation will no longer be supported in mainstream maintenance and will enter customer-specific maintenance with limited support effective October 15, 2025. Under customer-specific maintenance, the processing of problems is customer-specific. This means that for known problems, the solution is still covered by the maintenance. However, the customer may have to pay for the expense of solving new problems not yet known to SAP. In addition, SAP may, at its own discretion, choose to provide fixes under special circumstances e.g. for selected security issues, or for any critical bug that may impact the migration to alternative tools. See SAP Note 3665993 for more details.

Although BEx Analyzer and BEx Precalculation will be in customer-specific maintenance from October 15, 2025, other BW BEx tools such as BEx QueryDesigner and BEx WebApplicationDesigner have no direct dependency to Microsoft Office and will continue to be supported as usual until 2030, including, with the availability of bug fixes for any new errors reported for BW 7.5, and with a .NET compatible version not higher than 4.8. Consequently, support for other BEx tools such as BEx QueryDesigner and BEx WebApplicationDesigner is provided with BW 7.50 until the end of maintenance of BW 7.5.

With the clock ticking toward October 14, 2025, the end of support for Microsoft Office 2016 and 2019 also signals the end of mainstream support for Excel-based SAP BEx tools like BEx Analyzer, BEx Workbooks, and BEx Broadcaster (Pre-calculation) by SAP. While some BEx components (BEx Query Designer, BEx WAD) will continue in maintenance mode until 2027 or 2030, the Excel-dependent tools face a end of mainstream maintenance and move into customer specific maintenance with limited support from October 15, 2025.

While many organizations are already moving forward with SAP Datasphere adoption or planning their SAP BW/4HANA conversion, those still operating on SAP BW 7.x must urgently assess their current BEx tool usage to avoid disruptions and ensure long-term supportability.

In this article, we break down:

What BEx tools are affected and when
How to check if your system still relies on BEx Tools approaching end of support
Available replacements like SAP Analysis for Office and SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP's mass conversion tools and services to ease your transition

For answers to the most frequently asked questions (FAQ) about the BEx tools sunset, check out the dedicated FAQ:

👉Sunset of BEx Tools – Frequently Asked Questions and Answers (FAQ)

Whether you have already started migrating or are still evaluating your next steps, this article will help you understand the risks, available options with existing BEx tools usage.

BEx Solutions Overview

SAP offers a range of BEx-related tools and components, each serving different roles in the reporting and analysis workflow. These solutions fall into two broad categories; those dependent on Microsoft Excel and those that are web-based or standalone.

BEx tools can be classified in two broader categories:

Excel-Dependent (Impacted by both BEx sunset and Office lifecycle)

BEx Analyzer
BEx Workbooks
BEx Broadcaster

Standalone/Web-Based (Independent of Office support)

BEx Query Designer
BEx Queries
BEx Web Application Designer

BEx tools that rely on Excel only work with specific versions of Microsoft Office. The last versions supported by BEx tools are Office 2016 and Office 2019. Since Microsoft's decision to stop supporting Office 2016 & 2019 versions by October 14, 2025, this poses a hard limit on the mainstream maintenance support timelines for the excel based BEx reporting tools as well, and after that BEx tools (BEx Analyzer, BEx Workbooks and BEx Precalculation) dependent on Excel will enter into customers-specific maintenace support by SAP from October 15, 2025.

BEx tools that don’t rely on Microsoft Office (i.e. BEx Query Designer, BEx Queries, BEx WAD) can still be used and supported until 2027 (standard support) or 2030 (extended support), in line with BW 7.50 maintenance timelines. These tools are now in maintenance-only mode, meaning SAP will only provide basic support for fixing issues in BW 7.5 with no new development, innovation or new features planned for these BEx tools.

BEx Tools – Supportability Overview

Following table provides the End of Support for the BEx related products based on SAP NetWeaver or BEx End of Life timelines:

Key References and Support Notes for BEx Transition

The End of mainstream support for BEx (excel based tools) is reinforced by external dependencies, such as Microsoft’s end of support for Office 2016 and 2019, which directly impacts the usability and security of BEx Analyzer and Workbooks and BEx Broadcaster. Excel depedent tools such as BEx Analyzer, BEx workbooks and BEx Pre-calculation server will enter into customers-specific maintenace support by SAP from October 15, 2025.

SAP has formally communicated the BEx sunset through multiple channels, including official SAP Notes and blogs dating back as early as 2016. The references below serve as key evidence points supporting the urgency and inevitability of moving to modern alternatives like SAP Analysis for Office (AO) or SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC):

Microsoft Support link - Microsoft will no longer provide technical support, bug fixes, or security fixes for Office 2016 and Office 2019 vulnerabilities which may be subsequently reported or discovered. This includes security updates which can help protect your PC from harmful viruses, spyware, and other malicious software
Announcements for BEx sunset was announced through the blog - Announced in 2016
SAP Note 2609031 - Sunset of BW Business Explorer (BEx) – Announced in 2018

Additional References:

SAP Note 3665993 - End of Mainstream maintenance and start of customer-specific maintenance for BEx Analyzer and BEx Precalculation w.e.f. Oct 15, 2025
SAP Note 1973324 - BEx support for Microsoft Office 365 - Client Excel 2013 and 2016
SAP Note 3474912 – BEx Query Designer support for BW 7.50
SAP Note 3590297 - SAP BW NetWeaver Cloud: Information about maintenance availability in private cloud editions
SAP Note 1995532 - BI 7.x tools - HW\SW requirements and Compatibility of Microsoft Operating Systems and Office Products

BEx Sunset Adoption Gaps

As part of SAP’s long-term strategy to modernize its business intelligence tooling landscape, the sunset of BEx (Business Explorer) tools has been formally announced, encouraging customers to transition to more advanced and supported alternatives such as SAP Analysis for Office (AO) and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).

However, many SAP BW 7.x customers are at varying stages of adoption readiness, and significant gaps remain in fully realizing this transition. We observed these customers in following categories:

Transition Planned but BEx Still in Use: BW 7.x customers who have already planned the transition from BEx tools to modern alternatives such as SAP Analysis for Office (AO) or SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
- Users have been informed about the BEx sunset through communication efforts like end-user trainings, replacement solutions and awareness sessions
- Despite these efforts, end users continue to use BEx tools (e.g., BEx Analyzer, BEx Workbooks) for their reporting activities
Unaware of BEx Sunset: BW 7.x customers who are not aware of the sunset of BEx tools.
- BEx continues to be the primary reporting tool for all business use cases, as users are not informed of alternative solutions or the transition roadmap

What SAP Products are impacted:

SAP BW 7.5 or lower: BEx Analyzer/Workbooks can be the primary reporting front-end for classic BW systems
Embedded BW (in SAP ECC or ERP): Even though Embedded BW is typically used for operational reporting, BEx Analyzer/Workbooks can still used in some implementations
SAP SCM (Supply Chain Management): SCM systems with APO or SNP modules often have their own BW instance or rely on Embedded BW

While BEx is closely associated with SAP BW, its footprint extends into nearly every corner of the SAP ecosystem i.e. from legacy CRM and SRM systems to industry-specific solutions like IS-U and IS-Retail. Any system with a BW component or an integration to BW for analytics could potentially be generating BEx usage worth monitoring.

How to identify the impact in SAP BW system:

There are few potential options to check it in the system or EWA if BEx Analyzer or BEx Broadcaster is still used in the SAP BW system:

Option 1:

The SAP EarlyWatch Alert (EWA) report is a proactive monitoring tool provided by SAP that delivers a comprehensive technical health check of your SAP system. It is part of SAP’s support offering and is typically generated weekly to help detect and prevent potential issues before they impact system performance or availability.

Check section “Frontend Distribution” in BW EarlyWatch Alert reports. This section provides an overview of BW query executions, segmented by frontend tools, for the period covered in the EarlyWatch Alert (EWA) report. The data is sourced from the RSDDSTAT_OLAP view in the BW system.

The availability and data for the section depends on the configuration of the EarlyWatch Alert report for BW system: e.g.

ACTION REQUIRED: If there are any entries in BEx Analyzer 7.x and/or BEx Broadcaster, it is critical to initiate remediation steps to mitigate the impact of BEx End of support

Note: The statistics in EarlyWatch Alert report are extracted from the RSDDSTAT_OLAP view. Accuracy of the data relies on the proper enablement and execution of detailed statistics collection through transaction RSDDSTAT in SAP BW system, which must be activated for Workbooks, Queries, and InfoProviders to capture the statistics.

Option 2:

If EarlyWatch alert is not activated, you can login to the BW Production system, and manually check BEx tool usage accessing transaction SE16, and table RSDDSTAT_OLAP:

For BEx Analyzer / Workbook usage:
- Use selection “BEX” as STEPTP field and “3200” as EVENTID.
- Number of entries > 0 show the usage of BEx Analyzer / Workbooks in the system.
For BEx Broadcaster usage:
- Use “14601”, “14611” and “14671” as EVENTID.
- Number of entries > 0 show the usage of BEx Broadcaster (Pre-calc server) in the system.

The USERID field in the results will identify which users are actively using BEx tools

ACTION REQUIRED: If there are any entries in either of the above cases, it is critical to initiate remediation steps to mitigate the impact of BEx end of support.

Additional Consideration: This analysis is not limited to standalone BW systems. You can also perform this check in SAP systems with the SAP_BW component, such as ECC, SCM, or CRM etc. While most customers leverage standalone BW for central reporting, embedded BW capabilities in source systems allow the creation and use of BEx queries locally; another area that must be assessed during BEx deprecation planning.

How can SAP Services help?

BEx Workbooks

To ensure continuity and supportability, all BEx Workbooks should be migrated to SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (AO). For customers with only a few BEx Workbooks, a manual migration may be more practical.

For customers with a large number of BEx Workbooks, SAP offers a tool for Automated Mass Conversion Tool to accelerate and facilitate the conversion process from BEx (Analyzer) Workbooks to Analysis for Office Workbooks. The Automated Mass Conversion Tool is 6x to 8x faster than the manual conversion method, conversion of 100 Workbooks take around 5-6 Minutes, compared to at least 30 seconds per one workbook in case of manual conversion.

This service is available for both MaxAttention (Premium Engagement) and Professional Services customers, if you would like to request it or find out more about it please contact your Engagement Architect, Technical Quality Manager, Account Manager or you can reach out to us via the email:

SAP PremiumHubCoE_BExtoAO_Migration

BEx Broadcaster (Pre-calculation)

Unlike BEx Workbooks, which benefit from SAP’s Mass Conversion Tool for migration to Analysis for Office, BEx Broadcaster (Pre-calculation) presents a different challenge. There are following replacement options available:

SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (AO) with Scheduling via BI Platform
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Publication

There is no automated conversion tool available for migrating broadcasting scenarios to replacement alternatives. Customers must manually rebuild scheduling and distribution logic from scratch using supported replacement options.

Conclusion

While many customers have already transitioned to modern alternatives, there are customers who still rely on BEx tools particularly BEx Analyzer, BEx Workbooks and BEx Pre-calculatio server for critical reporting and scheduling needs. BEx Analyzer, BEx Workbooks and BEx Precalculation will no longer be supported in mainstream maintenance and will enter customer-specific maintenance effective October 15, 2025.

Organizations with a significant footprint of BEx Workbooks should be aware that migrating to SAP Analysis for Office can require substantial time and manual effort. SAP offers a Mass Conversion Tool and expert services through SAP MaxAttention and the CoE teams to accelerate this process and reduce the operational burden. Please connect at SAP PremiumHubCoE_BExtoAO_Migration.

For those using BEx Broadcaster (Pre-Calculation Server), it is equally important to plan a transition to supported scheduling solutions using manual rebuild such as SAP BusinessObjects BI Scheduling or SAP Analytics Cloud Publications.

Taking proactive steps today will ensure business continuity, reduce security and compliance risks, and set your organization on a clear path toward a modern, supported, and future-ready analytics strategy beyond BEx.

Using Client Certificate Authentication in SAP CPI HTTP Receiver Adapter

2026-02-17T10:17:51.079000+01:00

Introduction

Hi friends, in this blog lets see how to configure the HTTP receiver adapter using client certificate auth type and step by step explain how a PKCS#12 (.p12) certificate is stored in the Keystore, which I have explored in my recent Integration flow development.

What is Client Certificate Authentication?

Client certificate authentication, also known as a mutual authentication method / mutual TLS (mTLS), ensures that:

The client (SAP CPI) authenticates itself to the server
The server also presents its certificate to CPI
Both sides trust each other using certificates issued by trusted CAs

Unlike basic or OAuth authentication, client certificate authentication relies on X.509 certificates and private keys, not usernames or tokens.
For more information about client certificate authentication, refer to the link:

https://help.sap.com/docs/integration-suite/sap-integration-suite/client-certificate-authentication-outbound?locale=en-US&state=PRODUCTION&version=CLOUD

Files Provided by the Partner

Our 3rd party client (receiver system) has provided

certificate.crt — signed client certificate (after providing the signing request)
private_key.key — private key (We need to generate this via OpenSSL if it is a Production tenant)
certificate-chain.pem — intermediate/root CA certificates

To establish the connection, all three must be updated in the tenant keystore, since SAP CPI does not accept .key files directly, these files must be converted directly into a PKCS#12 (.p12) format.

Creating the P12 File

The .p12 file contains:

Client certificate (eg, certificate.crt)
Private key (eg, private_key.key)
CA certificate chain (Intermediate + Root certificates) (eg, certificate-chain.pem)

Using OpenSSL /Command prompt:

Open the command prompt from the same folder in which all these files are stored.

Enter the command below, and it will ask you to set the password. After you enter the password, it generates the p12 file in the same folder.

openssl pkcs12 -export \
-in certificate.crt \
-inkey private_key.key \
-certfile certificate-chain.pem \
-out client.p12 \
-name "client-cert"

Note: An export password is required and will be used later during upload into CPI.

Uploading the Certificate to SAP CPI Keystore

Log in to SAP Cloud Integration
Go to Monitor → Keystore
Choose Add → Key Pair
Upload client.p12
Enter the export password
Save

The certificate is now securely stored and managed by CPI.

Configuring the HTTP Receiver Adapter

In your integration flow:

Add an HTTP Receiver Adapter
Set Authentication to: Client Certificate
In the Credential Name field, select the alias of the uploaded .p12 from the Keystore.

Security Best Practices

Protect the .p12 password
Use separate certificates for PROD and NON-PROD
Monitor certificate expiry dates

Conclusion

Client certificate authentication is a secure and reliable option. Using a P12 certificate from the keystore with the HTTP Receiver Adapter keeps authentication simple and secure.

Thank you for reading this blog. I hope this helps you with your integration. When I started this integration development, I uploaded all the keystore documents separately, but it still ended up failing. Also, I couldn’t find any reference blog on how to handle this. So, I want to share this with others. If you feel this is a long procedure (as I do), please share your ideas and feedback in the comments.