The purpose of this article is to describe the procedure to enlarge the MAXDB database size running on any SAP application. There was an alert that the database size used was getting full. The procedure for enlarging MAXDB datafiles is described below. Login using SAPGUI in any productive client. To identify and confirm the....
Optimizing technical monitoring is an essential task for SAP administrators and IT teams who want to ensure the best possible performance and availability of their SAP applications. With the right tools and strategies, you can proactively monitor your SAP applications and quickly identify and address issues before they become major problems. This blog gives you....
API testing plays a crucial role in software development, and with Tricentis Test Automation for SAP (TTA) & SAP Enterprise Continuous Testing by Tricentis (ECT), developers can ensure that their APIs are reliable, scalable, and meet industry standards. This article will focus exclusively on the topic of API Testing. Furthermore, a forthcoming blog post will cover the topic of Orchestrated Service....
Solution Documentation creates value by simplifyig consumption of best practices. Solution Documentation is the collection of process steps and associated artifacts which are developed during an implementation. Often importance of accurate process documentation is overlooked due to the difficulty in keeping up with changes. Not using standard tools and accelerators can further increase the effort and cost....
Component Based Test Automation (CBTA) is a test automation tool in Solution Manager 7.2 and usage right is available to all enterprise customers. CBTA allows to create end-to-end test scripts for functional testing. It supports various UI technologies such as SAP GUI, Web/Plain HTML, WebCUIF, SAP UI5 & FIORI, Unified Rendering Light Speed (LS),....
Want traceability in your sap projects? Consider implementing Focused Build because traceability is built in. Focused Build tool makes all processes, activities, and outputs traceable in an SAP implementation. Often overlooked as tedious and costly, yet traceability is important for Value tracking and Targeting value. Traceability is the ability to trace Backlog from its inception to delivery and....
When using the Solution Documentation, it is sometimes necessary to create additional customer attributes which are describing the situation at the customer more in detail, for example an additional status schema for diagrams, a drop down box, etc. This technical article describes how to create such a customer attribute and how to visualize it in....
Multiple features related to automated test integration have been introduced by SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SPS14 release, including the ability to synchronise execution status of SAP Solution Manager test packages, with the results of automated tests triggered by SAP Enterprise Continuous Testing by Tricentis (ECT). This was described my previous blog post. Now that you are....
A regression test is intended to ensure, that changes in one part of an existing system do not lead to unwanted effects on other areas. It usually consists of repeating existing test cases that retest the entire system or processes and should be performed after changes have been successfully tested. Typically, regressive testing takes place....
Subscription of Incidents are necessary for everyone who want to get notifications to a business transaction when the status of this transaction is updated. It is possible as well to perform a subscription to an existing subscription that is not created by you. The following technical article describes how to configure a subscription for Incidents....
In the lifetime of a Focused Build Implementation Project, there will be test & migration clients used for different test purposes. Some of them remain in the system, but some of them shall be deleted when they are not used any more. Before that deletion the client should be removed from the Focused Build Release.....
With this series of blogs, we want to keep you informed on the latest news and what is important in the area of SAP ALM APIs and integration for SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Focused Run and SAP Solution Manager. Motivation Today, ALM practice must connect different teams from different locations, platforms, solutions and tools....
In 2022 we finished another round of SAP Customer Connect for: Process Management 2021 for SAP Solution Manager incl. Focused Build. Test Suite 2021 for SAP Solution Manager incl. Focused Build Change & Release Management 2021 for SAP Solution Manager incl. Focused Build With this blog we like to introduce all the remaining improvement request....
In this blog you will learn how to hide statuses from the graphical status overview section (roadmap) of your ChaRM transaction in case they are unused/undesired for some reason. The requirement from a process point of view If you are working with SAP ChaRM on the SAP Solution Manager, usually the current status of a....
I could see that most of WIKI link and existing blogs, SAP Community Q&A, are referring BPCA in SolMan 7.1, I just wanted to write this blog for those users who are planning to setup BPCA in Solution Manager 7.2 with relevant screenshots. Come let’s go into the topics in detail Why is Change Impact....
I am so excited to write this blog on BPMN Diagram features in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 that are almost unknown and unexplored by many of us. I got a chance to explore and unwind the features & capabilities of the in-built BPMN editor in SAP SolMan 7.2 system. Come, let us see about each....
In continuation to my first blog on unexplored features in BPMN diagrams, let us now look at Process Diagrams and Interface Diagrams. Process Diagrams: A process diagram analyzes the sequence flow in a single process in a participant Context Menu in Process Diagram: There are four parts of context menu objects that are available based on....
This is a series of blogs written by SAP subject matter experts to prepare you for your journey to SAP S/4HANA. Ready? Let’s go! Topic #13 is how to accelerate your rollout with test automation Did you know that you can access automated testing capabilities for SAP S/4HANA and other SAP solutions as part of....
SAP released a new SAP Cloud ALM scenario in 2022 that is pretty similar to what you would find in SAP Solution Manager (User Experience Monitoring) and Focused Run (Advanced User Monitoring). This new “Synthetic User Monitoring” (SUM) is essentially a lightweight alternative to bulkier but much more powerful solutions for continuous performance monitoring, such....
Today I want to share a tool that can be useful for SAP Solution Manager Consultants when they need to quickly get involved in a problem or situation analysis. The standard practice of interaction between SAP Partner and SAP Customer, when it is necessary to quickly re-document the configured ChaRM (Change Request Management) or ITSM....
First of all, I would like to thank SAP Labs India, for organizing this amazing event – SAP ALM Partner Conference APJ 2022 which happened on November 17,2022 Special thanks to Marc Thier, Michael Kloeffer, Janko Budzisch for providing us so many insights about SAP Cloud ALM and its capabilities. So, based on my understanding from attending this....
In this blog post, I would like to give you an overview of the Simple IT Request’s new features included in Focused Build SP09 and SP10. The features explained in this blog post are: Improved Search and Navigation (SP09) Full RichText Support for Conversations (SP09) Additional Text Types in Conversations (SP09) Multiple Business Partner Support....
Hello All, This blog explains about how to remove duplicate LCG that is created during the process of Content Activation when we upgrade from SolMan 7.1 to SolMan 7.2 Those who had worked in Solution Manager 7.1 would be very much aware that there were individual SOLAR projects with Logical components created for respective Technical....
The implementation guide “SAP Solution Manager Diagnostics Agent on z/OS” has been updated. it describes how to set up an SAP Solution Manager Diagnostics Agent (SMDA) instance on z/OS and connect it to an SAP Solution Manager 7.2 based on current software levels. The download is available here.
Based on my experience setting up UCIA in SAP Solution Manager for a customer who had performed their ECC SP upgrade recently I have written this blog. It will explain the steps to setup UCIA in detail with screenshots. Run transaction CNV_CDMC in Solution Manager system. There are set of steps that needs to be executed....
I had the requirement to control the editability of fields on the ChaRM CRM_UI (SOLMAN 7.2) depending on the user status of the document. I found these blogs on the topic: HowTo: User status dependent UI Control of ChaRM specific UI objects Editability/Visibility of UI objects dependent from the user status They were helpful but....
Run Operations for SAP software systems and services are typically embedded in the organizational and procedural models and practices of Customer Center of Expertise (CCOE) and therein the Operations Control Center (OCC). The latter is responsible for the two main processes of Run Operations scenario Detect-to-Correct: Event Management and Continuous Improvement. Customer Center of Expertise with Operations Control Center....
In this blog, we can see the step-by-step process of integrating SAP Solution Manager 7.2(SolMan) to external system. Here we will consider Service Now (SNOW) as External System. Scenario: SAP Solution Manager is an Incident Life Cycle tool for SAP Systems. There are many such tools in market for different ERP which does the same....
In this blog I like to show how you can document your SAP Fiori authorizations along your business process. This blog also contributes to my previous blog How to work with SAP Fiori Applications in SAP Solution Manager 7.20 – Process Management. There are many knowledge sources available to understand the Fiori authorization concept. I suggest....
Inspired by the blogpost Chronicles of a PI TLS 1.2 upgrade by Eng Swee Yeoh I like to share some other pitfall you may want to avoid with the IAIK Library of your PI and other AS Java systems as well as the CCL. Updates: 2022-12-01: Added further information regarding the parameters ccl/ssl/*/allow_session_resumption_without_extended_master_secret. 2022-11-21: Added another pitfall when it....
Configuration Validation application in Solution Manager is to compare and validate current values of configuration items of many systems against a defined target or standard configuration. It enables us to determine whether the systems in our landscape are configured consistently and in accordance with the requirements. In this blog post we will discuss about generating....
BACKGROUND SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SPS14 has been made available since January 2022. This new version has brought several new features, we will see in this blog post how to take advantage of the new Integration of External Execution Results for Automated Tests. I invite you to take a look at my colleague Evan Stoddard’s blog post that reviews some....
In this blog I like show you how you can establish a RACI Matrix in Process Management of SAP Solution Manager 7.2. Introduction A responsibility assignment matrix, also known as RACI matrix, describes the participation by various roles in completing tasks or deliverables for a project or business process. RACI is an acronym derived from the four key responsibilities most typically used: responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed. In context of SAP....
As working with SAP Fiori applications becomes more and more important for customer I like to share some insights on how to handle them with SAP Solution Manager 7.2 – Process Management. In SAP Solution Manager 7.2 – Process Management it is possible to document SAP Fiori applications within the solution documentation functionality. There are....
Introduction Today, no one doubts that agile projects are more successful than those that work with the old waterfall model. This can also be proven empirically: The Standish Group Chaos Study from 2020 shows that Agile Projects are 3X more likely to succeed than Waterfall projects. This is also true for S/4HANA implementation projects, but there are....
In this blog post, I would like to give you an overview of the Simple IT Request’s new features included in Focused Build SP05, up to Focused Build SP08. Besides continual performance improvements and overall stabilization, we focused on developing the following three core features: Multi-Level-Categorization Layout Field Solution Documentation Integration Substitutes Before going into....
In this blog post, I would like to give you an overview of the Simple IT Request’s new features included in Focused Build SP05, up to Focused Build SP08. Besides continual performance improvements and overall stabilization, we focused on developing the following three core features: Multi-Level-Categorization Layout Field Solution Documentation Integration Substitutes Before going into....
Sprints are necessary for agile projects and any good agile development team. The better you are prepared before a sprint, the more likely you will hit your goals you set up for your project. The sprint planning in SCRUM is the event with which the sprint is started. A good Sprint planning defines the content....
The Security Optimization Service (SOS) is designed to check the security of your SAP system (see Introduction to Security Optimization Service (SOS) – Security health Check report). The SOS report shows two tables with results and findings. In the beginning you find the overview about findings which includes the count of users related to a check: SOS Chapter....
Einführung In diesem Blogpost möchte ich auf die Fragestellung “Wie man Qualität in SAP S/4HANA Projekten messbar macht” eingehen. Für die Dimension Qualität existiert keine Einheit wie Beispielsweise für Zeit (Jahre, Monate, Tage, Stunden, Minuten, Sekunden), Kosten ($, €, £, etc.) oder den Leistungsumfang (definierte Lieferobjekte, Funktionen, Prozesse). Es ist daher umso schwieriger, die Dimension Qualität messbar....
This is a new year, and this is time to deliver some new contents for Focused Insgihts for SAP Solution Manager 7.2. SP09 brings some new functions to the already well known dashboards suite. New Launchpad feature for SAP Note correction. Following the introduction in SP08 of a new process to deliverer correction note,....
How could a year start better? Directly at the beginning Focused Build SP9 is released where SAP spent a lot of time in developing functions and features which have been requested by our customers in the Customer Connection Program 2021. We asked for Improvement Requests in the areas of Process Management, Test Suite and Change....
Hello ALM Community! SAP Solution Manager 7.2 development continues apace, and SAP continues to rely to your collaborative innovation requests from the 2021 Customer Connection program to improve your user experience and enhance the platform’s value. As evidence of these ongoing developments, Support Package Stack 14 is now available to apply to your system. Last Fall, we....
Last Changed: 05th of April 2022 while the Installation and (Basis) Configuration of SolMan 7.2 is really a complex task, it shows that the correct Implementation of the Diagnostic Agent become an even more complex task. Blog – SAP MacGyver – Installing SAP SolMan 7.2 Install and connect the SAP Diagnostic Agent properly It is always....
Dear reader, welcome to a series of articles “Machine Learning Services for Hybrid Operations”. In our publications we will focus on key challenges of well-known thresholds-based alerting systems (e.g. majority of ALM products in SAP portfolio including SAP Solution Manager) and will propose a Machine Learning based approach to extend existing monitoring and alerting processes.....
Since the partnership between Tricentis and SAP has been announced in 2019 the topic of the integration between Tosca and SAP Solution Manager 7.2 has become more and more important. Tosca is a tool for automating test scripts, created by Tricentis, the world’s leading provider of continuous testing platforms. As ALM Consultants we saw the....
Introduction Change Request Management (ChaRM) controls change and transport process for ABAP system landscape which is based on classic Change and Transport System (CTS), but since SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP12 ChaRM integrated with Git-enabled Change and Transport System (gCTS) to provide a possibility to transport ABAP code using Git-enabled CTS instead of CTS. A new change....
The way we consume reporting has changed radically in the last decade. Piles of paper with service results and reporting in printed documents is a picture from the past and everyone is familiar with dashboards, e-Readers and inter-active charts used on laptops and mobile phones now. In addition, the expectations are high that statistics not....
CONTEXT The SAP Analytics Cloud platform allows us to create innovative stories and to retrieve data from different products in order to find on the same page the key data to analyse the system security. It’s much more convenient and faster to summarize everything in one story. In order to ensure secure, up to date,....
Previous articles describe the Operations Control Center (OCC) as an integral part of SAP’s best practice operational model for IT organizations. Examples of advanced topics and applications relevant in and for the Operations Control Center can e.g. be found in part 1 (Robotic Process Automation), part 2 (Conversational Artificial Intelligence), part 3 (Intelligent Operations Analytics), and part 4 (Simplified Process Monitoring) of this article series. Intelligent....
