BRFPlus questions (NW EhP1)

Question

BRFPlus gurus,
As we start to spread the BRFPlus tool awareness internally, here is a couple of questions that came up..
1) We do see that BRFPlus rules can be used instead of creating a new custom cusomzing table to hold certain kind of business rules. Would that be a good idea? If we use decision table expression to store rules, is there a possibility to add Audit trail fields (Create On, Created by, Changed ON, Changed by) with other decision table fields and either have these fields populated automatically or write a custom code to populate these fields like how we do it using maintenace events for custom abap tables?
2) Generating Web service from BRFPlus rule functions require developers to have SICF authorizations that normally developers are not authorized. I see that when trying to generate a Web service, the ABAP code behind that button checks this auth - Is there anyway to get around this? wondering if this is really needed?
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Saurabh

Answer 1

Hi Saurabh,
To reply to your questions:
1. Decision tables can certainly be used to perform the tasks of the cusotmizing tables. Also, BRFplus maintains the versioning in its own if the versioning for a particular decision table has been set. This will store the changes made in the decision table by each user and the information regarding what changes have been made. There is absolutely no need to create a workaround solution for this functionality.  Also different versions of the decision table can be compared to see the actual changes.
2. Webservices are generated by the ws framework, and BRFplus only uses this framework to do so. It is currently not possible to bypass the authorization reqiurements for generation of the webservices. In the current release NWEhP2, we are trying to provide better messages so that the developer is able to understand what authorizations are needed in case the generation fails due to authorization issues.
Thanks and Regards
Nitesh