CUA vs Ecatt

Hello Gurus,
Our landscape consists of multiple systems & clients and we would be creating mass users across the landscape. Since the number of systems and clients are multiple, its going to be tedious task of creating users by logging into each & every client & system. So we are now in discussion whether to go with CUA or to use eCATT script. I went through all the forums & my notes and to my understanding going with eCATT will be more good rather than configuring CUA to our existing landscape. I heard that SAP will or going to retire CUA in the coming years & replace with SAP IDM. So at this point, using eCATT for mass users creation & later on moving to SAP IDM would be a better choice to my understanding.
Please share your expertise or advice. I appreciate your help
Thanks,
Venkat

If there already is a CUA in place, then switching the IdM to provision the master CUA is the recommended migration path. You can change your process (with IdM as front end) in one go without any parrrellel processes, then migrate the child systems without any stress of having to hunt down IDOCs in future..
If you do not have an existing CUA, then it is a different ball game and depends on how exotic your systems are outside of the SAP landscapes, whether the existing user names are unique, whether you want workflows and automation rules, etc.
If you only have SAP ABAP systems to provision to (also for the double-stack Java UMEs) then CUA is done in about a day or so (for technical implementation, and you only need to train the central admins, normally).
IdM in contrast is a project, but offers much more.
eCatt is IMO not an option for user administration. SU10 and BAPIs are a better (stable) option.
Cheers,
Julius

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Line
SourceCde
1
method RAISEELEMENT_NOT_FOUND.
2
data: l_count type I,
3
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5
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7
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Name
Val.
SY-SUBRC
0
SY-INDEX
1
SY-TABIX
0
SY-DBCNT
2
SY-FDPOS
0
SY-LSIND
0
SY-PAGNO
0
SY-LINNO
1
SY-COLNO
1
SY-PFKEY
SY-UCOMM
SY-TITLE
HTTP Control
SY-MSGTY
E
SY-MSGID
TD
SY-MSGNO
600
SY-MSGV1
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SY-MSGV2
0001
SY-MSGV3
EN
SY-MSGV4
SY-MODNO
0
SY-DATUM
20070207
SY-UZEIT
145005
SY-XPROG
SAPCNVE
SY-XFORM
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