CUA: SCUG - Transfer Users errors with Output Device does not exist

Question

Greetings,
I'm currently setting up CUA on our ECC 6.0 boxes and ran into an issue when I run SCUG and try to transfer the users. We're in the process of upgrading to ECC. The target systems are upgraded copies of our current 4.7 target systems.
Currently we have CUA connecting to our DEV,TEST, PreProd, and Prod Systems.
The output devices only reside on the target systems. There are no output devices on our production CUA box.
I'm trying to setup the ECC CUA box and modeling all the settings to our current environment. Once I set the CUA setting, including the RFC's and ALE connections I ran scug and ran into the issue.
I only get the error where the Default Output Device is populated. Users with no Default Output transferred without any issues. I looked up notes in OSS and can't seem to find any on this subject.
Side note: If I remove the output device it transfers without error. Obviously this is not a solutions, I was merely testing out the scenario.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Hi Alex,
there is just a little comment in SAP note #399917 (point 4).
As from my knowledge, the SCUM settings are not considered during SCUG. So setting
'output device' to local will not be a solution.
The standard way is to transport the ouput device information to your CUA-master system before taking over the users. (create transport in  SPAD).
I have also another workaround for you gurus, but this will need to modify the standard coding for the time of taking over your users. Using this modification, only a warning message will appear and unknown printers will not be taken into CUA-master system.
Pls test this proposal carefully (coding is rather old....), this is just a suggestion !
Include LSUUCF01                                                 
FORM DEFAULTS_CHECK                                              
Spool: Ausgabegerät                                            
  IF NOT DEFAULTSX-SPLD IS INITIAL AND                           
     NOT USER_DEFAULTS-SPLD IS INITIAL.                          
    SELECT SINGLE * FROM TSP03 WHERE PADEST = USER_DEFAULTS-SPLD.
    IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.                                            
      PAR1 = USER_DEFAULTS-SPLD.                                 
      CALL FUNCTION 'BALW_BAPIRETURN_GET2'                       
           EXPORTING                                             
                TYPE       = 'W' "'E' "Warning instead of error                                                                               
CL         = '01'                                
                NUMBER     =  29                                 
                PAR1       = PAR1                                
          IMPORTING                                              
               RETURN = ERRORTABLE                               
           EXCEPTIONS                                            
                OTHERS     = 1.                                                                               
APPEND ERRORTABLE.                                         
    ENDIF.                                                       
  ENDIF.                                                         
I strongly recommend to undo this modification after you have finished SCUG.
Good luck, b.rgds, Bernhard