Hyperion and Change Management

Good Day, I like to know if anyone is using any good Change ManagementSoftware for tracking changes in DEV, QA and then promoting toProd. Thanks Azmat Bhatti

Thanks, for those that use VSS - what (.pag, .otl) exactly do you control for versioning?Brentchoi we currently use 7.1.2. so are unable to use the hyperion planning but this sounds like a benefit. any idea if something similar is available for 7.x?

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It takes me a lof of time to comprehend the sentence you write. Cause I am a Chinese. My poor English.
I have to say "you are genius". I used to use the indesign CS2. There is no GREP function in CS2. When I get the new script, I do not know how to use it. Just when I saw the
'grep {findWhat:" +"} {changeTo:" "} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Find all double spaces and replace with single spaces.'
Being confused.
Thanks so much. It seems I have to relearn the advanced Indesign.

CRMD_ORDER: how to set default values for Requester and Change Manager

Hello Folks,
how do I set default values in TA crmd_order?
I drew my organizational hierarchy using TAs bp and ppoma_crm.
When a new Change Request (e. g. SDHF) is created, I want the four roles (Requester, Change Manager, IT Operator and Developer) to be set automatically, not manually.
Both Requester (= Key User) and Change Manager are derivable. I did not find anything in SPRO neither in the OSS neither here.
Points will be rewarded as a matter of course!
Thanx in advance!

Hi Dirk,
look for Define Access Sequence & Define Partner Determination Procedure in SPRO and read the IMG Activity Documentation. You can find it in the Service Desk config, but it works for the other transaction types too.
Basically, you create Access Sequences where you tell the Partner Determination Procedure where to look for the values for the Partner Function fields.
The Access Sequence can use lots of sources for the information, including your org structure.
regards,
Jason

Transport and Change Management

Hello,
We need to modify our MDM structure (add fields and tables). We would like to avoid unloading the repository. Can we do that in our test environment and move to Production only the structure while keeping the data in Prod.
What is the Transport and Change Management patch? Is this what we need?
Thanks for your help!

Hello,
This is not possible, as there is no support for Transport and Change management. You will always need some down-time in production. But there are some strategies to reduce the down-time.
(1) You could use the Java ADMIN API to create a batch-script that performs the required repository modifications. Once you validate it works, unload your repository, run your program and load the repository again.
(2) Create a "slave" repository and re-direct your production users to that repository. Unload your production repository and make all changes. Once done, reload that repository and switch back. Remember that this will only help to keep a "look-up" only version of the production repository...
Regards
Dirk

BPM and Change Management Process

Hi,
We have a requirement to automate the change management process. Typical functionality needed is - input the change required, assign priority, organise risk assessment, change approvals, change implementation, send automatic emails to managers etc.
Is BPM a best fit to this kind of Change Management Process?
Thanks
Srikanth

Hi Srikanth,
It's a good question and I hope this helps.
My short answer is that "it depends...".
Yes, an Oracle BPM process will let your users enter the change required, assign priority, define the change approvals, and send automatically send emails to managers.
Not saying that this is the case here, but sometimes people confuse an application with what BPM does with a process. Ask yourself if your candidate process for BPM has one or more of these characteristics:
Workflow - are there multiple people involved in the editing and approvals over some period of time?
Documentation - as work flows through the process, will you need to gather requirements / documents and associate these with the instance?
Seamless integration - are there systems and or databases involved that you need to integrate into the process?
Efficiency - do you want to ensure that your process continues to flow and escalates when a work item sits too long in someone's queue?
Governance - do you need to have an audit trail of the various people who were involved as a work item instance (a change approval in your case) flowed through the process?
Compliance - do you need to have the change management instances go through a process in a consistent and well documented manner?
Visibility - do you need to gather key performance indicators as instances flow through the process and do managers need to track these in business activity monitoring reports?
Hope this helps,
Dan

Software Configuration and Change Management for ABAP

Hi all,
we developed an ABAP application with about 10 developers and shipped it to Customer A.
Then we do corrections and enhancements for a new Customer B. But then Customer A finds bugs in his shipped version, which is not the current version on our development system.
Now a lot of time is wasted debugging the current version and finding out why the bug is there in the shipped version A but not in the current version.
So its difficult and timeconsuming to manage those different versions of the same application for different customers.
This effort increases with each new customer dramatically.
The ABAP workbench only knows linear versioning of single ABAP objects like report, function module or class.
Now the question:
Is there a standard transaction or external ABAP software that supports such a Software Configuration & Change Managment, i.e. allows tagging, branching, maintaining multiple development branches, allows running transactions and reports of older revisions, etc. like so many non-SAP/ABAP SCCMs like CVS, Bitkeeper, Subversion or Monotone do in the OpenSource world?
I found one called Conigma from Galileo Group, but am wondering if there are others, or whether there is someone having used such a tool.

Hi Frank,
In ABAP world, there is supposed to be one development environment for one production system.
The transport of changes follow the path
DEV --> QAS --> Production.
One golden rule is while making any changes to a program in Development, ensure that the version is compatible with production and QAS.
If there is a change request already open for the development object then that earlier change request should be finished first and the changes should get transported to QAS and production.
It seems you are trying to handle two production systems using one development system. That will surely bring some serious fun
Though, if you have no other option then keep the record of versions applicable to your different customers.
Later retrieve the version according to the customer before making any changes.
Cheers,
Ram

Versioning and Change Management in VC 6

Hi there,
I couldn't find documenation on VC change management or version management for vc model.
Could someone shed some light on this?
Cheers,
Paul

Hi Lior,
I am looking for a soluation that would assist in versioning and migration in a team environment.
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PL

Versioning of BPMN Process Models and Change Management

Hi all,
Can any of you please provide insight on how can we do the following change management activities?
1. Version Control of BPMN Models synchronized with the change management activities
2. In the Help documentation, two roles called Improvement Manager and Modeler were mentioned. How do we define their roles in the Administration? In User Management I see only one function privilege "Change Management" and both Improvement Manager and Modeller will have this privilege. Than how they are distinguished in their roles?
3. Does it also support a work flow and notification mechanism?
Thanks in anticipation.
Best regards,
Raja Mohan

Hi,
I'd just like to add some quick points that you need to consider:
Implicit version control is not supported in the current release (10.1.3.4) but it will be supported in Release 11 (upcoming release). There are some workarounds/alternatives like attributes (Status, Since/on, Released on, Released by, Release) and external version control system combined with the XML import/export functionality (Re: Control Version
The Change Management can be used to describe upcoming modeling tasks within the Business Process Architect. This implicates changes from IT, adding new objects, adjustments of models or control flow, etc... Especially it is suitable to document suggestions for future model improvements.
"Does it also support a work flow and notification mechanism?"I think this might be a governance topic that has to be created on your own.
Hope it helps,
Danilo

Clustering 3500 and changing management VLAN

I have a cluster of 3 3500XL switches. All have the latest rev of IOS. The cluster is fine when on default vlan. When I change the managment VLAN to VLAN 9 using "cluster management vlan 9" the 2 member switches fail to change to vlan 9 and the cluster breaks. THANKS

Changing the Management VLAN
Access to all switch management facilities is through the switch IP address, and the switch IP address always belongs to the management VLAN, VLAN 1, by default. This section describes how to configure a cluster to support management connectivity when the management VLAN is other than the default.
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/c2900xl/29_35xu/scg/kiclust.htm#34921

Forte and Configuration Management tools

Hello everybody,
We are starting here a project with Forte. It will involve about 15
developers on two sites one in France and one in Germany.
Among other starting tasks, we have been considering using a Configuration
Manager tool connected to Forte. With the Configuration Manager we want to
do version control of the developed code.
Thus we have been experimenting various simple solutions to make backup /
recovery using the plans / workspaces / repositories of Forte using simple
techniques (FSCRIPT scripts + UNIX scripts). It has not been so obvious to
go around the checks that FORTE makes when it "compiles" a plan and when it
"integrates", assuming the public interfaces of some code have changed.
We came to the conclusion that restoring an old "version" of the code of an
application is almost every time a significative task which involves system
administration. One clean way to do it (at least the one we have identified)
requires the creation of a new repository, its loading with the version to
be restored, and from now on developers must use that repository. This
implies that an overall coherent set of code is restored, in fact the entire
application under development. No piecewise restore of let say just a
project, or a class. The backup is simply made by exporting a workspace that
includes the top most plan of our application, and thus automatically all
the supplier plans.
I have read in some articles that there are some experience somewhere of
using Forte with some CM tools of the market; furthermore is it true that
version 3 of Forte will come (link to ?) real and exhaustive functionalities
for CM ?
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development projects. We have some knowledge on ClearCase.
Among other things I expect from a CM tool :
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of code (here a module, there a "plan"), so "what has changed".
* management of checkout : who has checked out what and when.
In addition, cooperation between a CM tool and Forte needs that the CM takes
over some functions of Forte (eg, checkout, integrate, import). Is there a
way to hook "exits" into the Forte workshops ? These exists could then be
shell scripts linking with the CM tool.
I am very interested in discussing the matter more in detail.
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In my opinion, Portal has a lot of work to do in terms of configuration and change management. If you are using Portal as an application platform, as opposed to KM, you are better of developing java portlets, so that you can use the SCM with JDeveloper and stay away from the application components. If you do want to use the components, then application export/import is the only way. You can setup your own procedures for handling the exported files (version etc).
You don't really version KM apps. Content is meant to be posted and otherwise administered by content area admins and users. It is not a "application", that must be change managed. There are versioning features available at the item level, which is adequate (but by no means a complete versioning system. Use iFS if you want that).
I have heard quite a few horror stories about exporting and importing content areas.
A 3-system Portal landscape, in my opinon, is overkill and trying to fit an existing approach to a new tool. A test/dev and a production Portal might be more palatable to the IT budget.
My 2.5 cents

Version and Configuration Management in Oracle Portal

Hello ...
How is version and configuration management applied to real-life, large Oracle Portal applications, where e. g. both development, test, and production environments are used?
The build-in version management in Oracle Portal is inadequate for such environments.
Any suggestions, opinions, ... on this matter would be highly appreciated.
Regards,
Poul

In my opinion, Portal has a lot of work to do in terms of configuration and change management. If you are using Portal as an application platform, as opposed to KM, you are better of developing java portlets, so that you can use the SCM with JDeveloper and stay away from the application components. If you do want to use the components, then application export/import is the only way. You can setup your own procedures for handling the exported files (version etc).
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I have heard quite a few horror stories about exporting and importing content areas.
A 3-system Portal landscape, in my opinon, is overkill and trying to fit an existing approach to a new tool. A test/dev and a production Portal might be more palatable to the IT budget.
My 2.5 cents

Central Transport Change Management

Hi,
I want to use my Solution Manager instance as a central repository for all the change requests that are created by my Implementation project (Using ECC6, SCM, BI, XI).
I have followed the IMG for the Basic settings in Change Management, but I need to understand whether the Extended settings will give me what I need.
Or if I am doing something really stupid and have actually finished the config.
TIA
Chris aka BoobBoo

Hello,
This is not possible, as there is no support for Transport and Change management. You will always need some down-time in production. But there are some strategies to reduce the down-time.
(1) You could use the Java ADMIN API to create a batch-script that performs the required repository modifications. Once you validate it works, unload your repository, run your program and load the repository again.
(2) Create a "slave" repository and re-direct your production users to that repository. Unload your production repository and make all changes. Once done, reload that repository and switch back. Remember that this will only help to keep a "look-up" only version of the production repository...
Regards
Dirk

SAP certifications for E2E RCA, change management

Hi,
I wanted to find out if the skill sets required for implementing E2E RCA and Change management really require training and certification. I am being asked to do it.
Is this a hot skill set to acquire, are many people implementing RUN SAP for Support.

Hi, yes, its going to be a hot skill considering the facts about the Run SAP and the tool being under the methodology is the Solution manager. It provides functionality and support operation tools that will assist in operations of large sap solutions quickly and efficiently.
http://download.sap.com/services/bysubject/support/brochures/download.epd?context=A868467FD491523D39B275AEAFD72EAED1F5B2A981D54AD33AF85A62DF0CCB8D7E73D3A29D48B6C0D62F2C64D8543DB62F259430DECDB024
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Webinar: Change Management and Transport in the Enterprise Portal

SAP NetWeaver Know-How Network Webinar:
Change Management and Transport in the Enterprise Portal
Wednesday 21 July 2004
11 a.m. EDT
On Wednesday 21 July, Scott Jones hosts the webinar titled Change Management and Transport in the Enterprise Portal as part of the ongoing SAP NetWeaver Know-How Network Webinar Series.
Heres how Scott describes his webinar presentation:
Change Management offers special challenges to administrators working in Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP2 environments. This talk provides recommendations and tools, and defines best practices and methods for the effective transport of Enterprise Portal content, with special attention to content dependencies, tracking, and troubleshooting. We'll also look forward to Change Management enhancements coming with Netweaver 04.
SDN invites you to post your questions to the presenter prior to the webinar and continue the online discussion afterward.
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Hello,
In the intresting document I read that for the deployement the version number mentionned in the MANIFEST.MF is very important in a clustered evironment.
SAPnote 727180 - Version of PAR File in Manifest File
denies this.
Can you clear this out?
Kind Regards
Koen Van Loocke

Public Change Management indicator and mid-year reassignment in new GL

Dear experts,
I have two questions on documentation at help.sap.com
here http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/b3/fa3a95ecd9465c82957992e30e1ff2/frameset.htm
it is said that:
1. "You can use the SAP document change interface to reassign original documents by setting the Public Change Management indicator when converting the worklist."
I run FMCT transaction and can not find this "Public Change Management" indicator. Where should I look for it?
2. "When you update in new General Ledger Accounting an FM account assignment that is to be reassigned, a mid-year reassignment is not possible"
Does this mean that I can not do a mid-year reassignment, if I use the new General Ledger Accounting?
Thank you in advance!
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Hi Irina, as I know this applies if the FM account assignment element is an split charateristic in the New GL, for example the Fund, if the fund accounting scenario is active.
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