ARIS - Solman Integration : Occurence copied node issue

Question

Hi,
We are using ARIS - Solution Manager 4.0 Synchronization.
But, we encountered a big problem with synchronization.
That is as follows.
For example, there is following process - process step.
             Process                                           Process Step
    ( Processing Subcontract P/O )         -          ( Create Purchase Order )     
    ( Processing P/O                   )         -          ( Create Purchase Order )
In this case, we can create as follows:
< ARIS >
             Process                                          Process Step                     ARIS GUID
    ( Processing Subcontract P/O )          -        ( Create Purchase Order (A) )    -  ( 8888 )
    ( Processing P/O                   )          -         ( Create Purchase Order (B) )    -  ( 9999 )
This is the way to create two process step individually by defintion functionality.
But, it's inconvenient because we must maintain the information of two process steps (A),(B) separately.
And, In this case, they have separate GUID. (They are different things)
But, ARIS supports the Occurence copy functionality.
With this functionality, we can make as follows:
< ARIS >
         Process                                           Process Step                         ARIS GUID       
    ( Processing Subcontract P/O )     -        ( Create Purchase Order (A) )    -     (  8888 )
    ( Processing P/O                   )     -         ( Create Purchase Order (A) )    -     (  8888 )
In this case, we can see this process step, "Create Purchase Order", below the two process,both.
But, That is one node physically, so it has a only one GUID.
And, we can change the information(T-CODE, Name) in only one side.
I think this is necessary and right concept.
But, when this process is synchronized to solman, following problem occurs,.
< Solution Manager >
              Process                               Process Step              (ARIS GUID)      SAP ID
    ( Processing Subcontract P/O )   -   (                                         )     -      ( ) - ( )                                      
    ( Processing P/O                   )    -   ( Create Purchase Order (A) )     -     ( 8888 )      -  ( ABCD )
This is the result synchronized to solution manger.
That is, because process step(A) is physically one, so it's transfered to solman only once.
Exactly speaking, that is originally transfered below the process "Processing Subcontract P/O"
and moved below "Processing P/O" again.
In conclusion, occurence copied node in ARIS is synchronized to solman only once as I know.
If this is right, I think it might be a very big problem in ARIS-SOLMAN integration part.
And, I guess this could be fixed because the Solman function module for ARIS Sync.,
"Z_SOLAR_NODE_ADD", has the import parameter "I_REF_GUID", and solman support the occurence copy(Reference copy) function.
My questions are as follows:
1) Is it right that occurence copied node in ARIS is transferred to solman only once?
2) Is there anybody who knows the plan of IDE or SAP with this problem?
Thanks for your help in advance.
Best regards,
jihyun cho

Answer 1

Dear Michael,
Thank you so much for help!!!
I created customer message about this issue, either.
And I got the reply from SAP they sent this message to the development support level which will be handled by IDS Scheer.
But, I didn't get any message from IDS yet.
If they would contact me, I will check when new feature will be avaliable. And I will share this plan with everyone.
And I knew Shortcut function was newly updated with SP15 for the first time thanks to your reply.
Thanks for your help again.
Best regards,
jihyun cho