CMS Tracks - best practice?

Hi,
we are developing our product with CVS right now and want to move over to DTR. The basic concepts are clear and I did a test migration yet which is successful.
But I am unclear on the chamge management piece:
Let's say we develop a version 1.0
Now this version has service packs 1.0 SP1, SP2, SP3 and so on. These service packs also have to be maintained, they might contain bugs, so you could have something like
1.0 SP1 Patch 1, 1.0 SP1 Patch 2 and so on.
How do I handle this with CMS tracks? Whats the best practice? Do I setup a track for every major version and for every support package in that version? I.E. i will have a track 10SP0, 10SP1, 10SP2, 10SP3 and so on? Will this work?
Right now we have a lot of CVS tags and branches to make this work... but how do you do that in DTR? I need to be able to jump back to a specific version and SP and fix bugs in there if a customer needs it.
In CVS the concept is that I will develop in HEAD and bugfix in branches (which is all in the same repository / "workspace"). But in DTR how do I do it? Is there something analog to this? Or do I always just use the track with the highest versio number as the "HEAD"?
Any input is appreciated.
Thanks
Bruno

Hello Bruno,
For each state of your product that you wish to maintain, you must create a track. So in your case, you will have a track structure as follows:
Track1.0
Track1.0_SP1
Track1.0_SP2
DTR does not support tags (yet), so the state that you wish to retain for possible future fixes must be isolated in a workspace of a given track. That is, "Track1.0_SP1" will contain the workspaces that represent the SP1 state, and a fix for SP1 must be done in this track.
And you must develop on the Main Release track ("Track1.0") and do the bugfixes in the track for the approrpriate SP. You should set up a transport connection of type "Repair" from each SP track to the Main Release track, so the fixes you make in the SP track are automatically back-transported to the Main Release track. (This connection can be setup in the "Track Connections" tab in the CMS Landscape Configurator.)
Also note that the DTR version graph represents a global version history, so for any file you will be able to view the changes made in the different tracks (workspaces) from the Version Graph view (in the DTR Perspective of the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio).
Regards,
Manohar

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My first thought would be to process the PO for the NBV of the assets against a generic FERC Account 102, that is not set-up as a reconciliation account. I would then process an asset transaction using t-code ABSO with transaction type 158 and use the generic FERC account 102 as the Offsetting Account in the entry and using Document Type AA.
I would like to follow best practice in this scenario.
You help on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
Wayne
Edited by: Wayne Rochon on Mar 31, 2011 9:19 PM

Thank you very much for your response.
I hope I can provide some clarity on how the accounting needs to be handle per FERC Regulations. The G/L balance on the utility that is selling the assets will be in the following accounts (standard accounts across all FERC Regulated Utilities):
101 - Acquisition Value for the assets
108 - Accumulated Depreciation Value for the assets
For an example, there is Debit $60,000,000 in FERC Account 101 and a credit $30,000,000 in FERC Account 108. When the purchase occurs, the net book value for the asset will be on our G/L in FERC Account 102. Once we have FERC Approval to acquire the plant assets, we will need to enter the Acquisition Value and associated Accumulated Depreciation onto our G/L to FERC Account 101 and FERC Account 108 respectively with an offset to FERC Account 102.
The method that I came up with is to purchase the NBV of the assets to a clearing account. I then set up account assignments that will track the Acquisition Value and respective Accumulated Depreciation for each asset that is being purchased. I load the respective asset values using t-code AS91 and then make an entry to the 2 respective accounts with the offset against the clearing account using t-code OASV. Once my company receives FERC approval, I will transfer the asset to new assets that has the account assignments for FERC Account 101 and FERC Account 108 using t-code ABUMN or FB01.

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Dear All,
I am in need of some u201Cbest practicesu201D in asset management in Telecommunications industry.
On of my LE clients would like to implement asset management. The concentration will be PM - equipment tracing & tracking in the system. A u201Cbest-practiceu201D asset management system in their SAP ECC is the idea.
An insight into best practices of Plant Maintenance and equipment trace & tracking in Telecommunications Industry needed.
u2022     Asset coding/naming design in Telecommunications industry (especially in u201Cnetwork assetsu201D u2013 if there is some kind of a best practice how to name the assets (hierarchies, naming conventions etc)).
u2022     Insight into plant maintenanceu2019s core functionality in Telco
u2022     Any tracing & tracking system proposal u2013 barcode and/or RFID technologies for telecommunication asset management u2013 any insight into partners working for this purpose.
They are specifically interested in Deutsche Telekom
Best regards
Yavuz Durgut - SAP Turkey

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You have a good start. What you need to do is 1.) Find out what the requirements are -- what does your user want.... if this is a fact finding mission (e.g., they want to see what's in the system) then your requirement becomes load the data in R/3, so figure out what they configured in PM and use those definitions as your requirements.   2.) Use those requirements to find data in the fields listed in the MultiProvider, InfoCubes, or DataStore Objects sections in your first link ... in other words, now that you know what data to look for, look for it in the Data Targets (MP's, Cubes and DSO's). If you find some of the data you want, then trace back the infosources and determine what datasources in R/3 load the data you are looking for. After all that, check those datasources for any additional fields you may need and add them in.
So, if your company doesn't maintain equipment costs or maintenance costs for equipment, then you don't have to worry about 0PM_MP04. Use this type of logic to whittle down to what your really need and want, then activate those object only.
Good Luck,
Brian

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