Landscape Clean-up

Hi there,
I just started a new job for a small company which has a VERY messy BW install. The landscape has 2 boxes BWD and BWP both of which are connected to R/3 production. It seems that my predecessor was a bit lazy with his transports and as such most users (if not all) are using BWD exclusively. Data and structures are inconsistent in BWP and as such it's almost un-used. This presents some issues as I'm sure you're aware. There's effectively no Development or QA box for me to use.
As of now I have a very limited understanding of the differences between the 2 systems but over the next week or so I'd like to get BWD and BWP in synch.
I guess I can propose that BWD be copied to BWP completely. However this would mean that some active business content from BWD would be sent to BWP even though its not needed or fully configured. Correct?
The better way would be to collect and transport all of the active content in BWD and send only that to BWP. I assume that there are open transports in BWD but I think it may be safer to just delete the transports and start fresh with clean ones. Correct?
In all of my other projects collection and transport creation and importation were done by other teams and so I have basically ZERO knowledge of how it's done.
Can someone send me some tips for this large endeavour?

At the outset, since BWD is used and connected to production, rebuild the BWP with a system copy. ONce copy is sucessful, shut down the RFC of BWD-R/3 prod.
All the ope transports delete them and the objects will be unlocked.
Once copy is done, you can resume the transport process.
Ravi Thothadri

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System landscape Clean-up

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As of now I have a very limited understanding of the differences between the 2 systems but over the next week or so I'd like to get BWD and BWP in synch.
I guess I can propose that BWD be copied to BWP completely. However this would mean that some active business content from BWD would be sent to BWP and the active reports and cubes in BWP would be wiped out.
The better way would be to collect and transport all of the active content in BWD and send only that to BWP. I assume that there are open transports in BWD but I think it may be safer to just delete the transports and start fresh with clean ones. Correct?
In all of my other projects collection and transport creation and importation were done by other teams and so I have basically ZERO knowledge of how it's done.
Can someone send me some tips for this large endeavor?
How can I know if the object version in BWD or BWP is correct if there's a collision?
I guess this might be messy...

At the outset, since BWD is used and connected to production, rebuild the BWP with a system copy. ONce copy is sucessful, shut down the RFC of BWD-R/3 prod.
All the ope transports delete them and the objects will be unlocked.
Once copy is done, you can resume the transport process.
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BW upgrade landscape

Hi,
There is no BW upgrade forum so I post my question here.
We are going to upgrade SAP BW 3.5 to BI7 soon. Source systems are ECC 5.0 but we plan to upgrade ECC later. (please do not discuss why not upgrade ECC with BW).
It was a 3 - 4 months project so we will use dual landscape, one for current production support and one for upgrade.
Current BW:
BWD --> BWQ --> BWP
Current ECC:
ECD --> ECQ --> ECP
Upgrade BW landscape
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Thanks for your comment.
James

HI,
1) Is it necessary to have a dual system landscape for ECC?
Its not mandatory and necesary , its upto you , but suggestion is to use atleaset one server as staging server which should be the copy of current PRD upgrade
2) For upgrade BW landsacpe, can we still use BWD & BWQ for SID? (If so, we do not have to covert the logical system)
Yes , ofcourse you are creating both as independent landscape so same SID can be used.
3)
The database size of BWP is 10G (Yes, very huge). and I am sure there is a little config diffience between BWD & BWP. I want to copy BWP BW 3.5 to BD2 then upgrade to BI7, then delete all transaction (or even master) data in BD2, so I can get a clean, samll BI7 development system. Does it work?
Techinacally it wll work but how you will manage and identify transactional and master data.?
Additionally standard way of upgarde is
1) Create a staging server copy of PRD and perform test upgarde
2) Upgarde DEV-QA-PRD in sequence.
Hope it will help you.
Regards,

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Hi,
Tried all the cleaning programmes and it still will not print...I am lost.

PLD Balance Sheet - landscape with more than four columns possible?

I'm assuming this can't be done based on the zero responses... but perhaps someone new will know...
I have cleaned up the Periodic Balance Sheet by removing % differences and such, and am left with the account name and four columns (five columns total). This works great for quarterly reviews... But I want to be able to see the entire year on one landscape page if I were to choose a monthly report. Those columns do not magically add to the same page; rather, they appear on separate pages (so for a monthly balance report, you would see three pages).
How in the world can I make this work to not create new pages when there's plenty of white space left?
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Russell Clayton
Edited by: Russell Clayton on Dec 15, 2009 12:06 AM

Hi Russell,
I don't think it's possible. There are some print layouts in the system which are a bit dodgy: have a look at the actual fields displaying the data: these are all simple text type fields but still they are the ones containing the data... These kind of layouts are made by SAP in a way we can't edit, if you try to for instance copy those text fields they will not display the same info anymore, just the original ones, or once you deleted them you can't reproduce them to work again.
So unfortunately this is something SAP made working this way and we can't change it. You can try maybe to recreate the same report in Crystal?
Regards,
Nat

Document improperly printing in Portrait instead of Landscape via Remote Desktop

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Using Remote Desktop Services via Windows Server 2008 R2 with all Windows Updates.
Local client - Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit with all Windows Updates.
This does not happen using another printer (Dell) - so I'm leaning towards it being an HP issue.
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When going to print -- it's showing that it's set to landscape.

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Install that and let me know the result!
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Landscape and Portrait Orientation Problems

Hello everyone,
I am working on my first iBook using iBook Author. I am having a heck of a time understanding how to make something look good in both Landscape and Portrait orientation.
For example, I am curious how to make the spaces between paragraphs disappear in portrait view, if I had to use them in order to make the landscape view look proper in terms of formatting. In depth, if I have a text for a section in the book that I need to have at the top of the next column, I am putting my cursor before the text and pressing enter a few times in order to move it along and onto the next column so it is at the top of the page.
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Best approrach for authorization clean up in GRC implemetation project

we are implementing GRC AC 5.3, our basis people have created initial connections. we have 2system GRC landscape connecting to 3system ECC landscape where GRC Dev is connecting to ECC DEV, QA & GRC Prod is connecting to ECC prod. Now my question is
what is the best approach for authorization clean up?
1) Do i need to request for the Dev/QA system refresh from Prod before running GRC Dev RAR analysis for ECC dev/QA?
or 2) can i clean up the auth data based on current Dev/QA system data?
or 3) Do we need go for creation of new client in Dev/QA that has data copied from prod and then analyse & go modification and finally transport these changes to main ECC transport route?

Hi,
You can create a new client in the QA environment as a copy of user master from production. First you connect this client to your GRC DEV system and there you can run RAR Risk analysis to get a view of risks you have in production system. Then share the reports with business people and discuss it. After that do the modification in this QA client only. After you have corrected some roles then number of risks will go down. After running 2-3 runs of risk analysis in QA and get clear picture then you can think of moving changes in the production environment. Also depends upon your business requirement.
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Types of landscapes

can you tell me types of landscapes and ratings in land scape

Hi,
Landscape is like a server system or like a layout of the servers or some may even call it the architecture of the servers viz. SAP is divided into three different lanscape DEV, QAS and PROD.
- DEV would have multiple clients for ex: 190- Sandbox, 100- Golden, 180- Unit Test.
- QAS may again have mutiple clients for ex: 300- Integration Test, 700 to 710 Training.
- PROD may have something like a 200 Production.
These names and numbers are the implementer's discreet on how they want it or they have been using in their previous implementations or how is the client's business scenario.
Now whatever you do in the Sandbox doesn't affect the other servers or clients. Whenever you think you are satisfied with your configuration and you think you can use it moving forward, you RE-DO it in the golden client (remember, this is a very neat and clean client and you cannot use it for rough usage). As you re-do everything that you had thought was important and usable, you get a transport request pop up upon saving everytime. You save it under a transport request and give your description to it. Thus the configuration is transported to the Unit Test client (180 in this example).
You don't run any transaction or even use the SAP Easy Access screen on the 100 (golden) client. This is a configuration only client. Now upon a successful tranport by the Basis guy, you have all the configuration in the Testing client, just as it is in the Golden client. The configuration remains in sync between these two clients.
But in the Testing client you can not even access SPRO (Display IMG) screen. It's a transaction only client where you perform the unit test. Upon a satisfactory unit test, you move the good configuration to the next SERVER (DEV). The incorrect or unsatisfactory configuration is corrected in Golden (may again as well be practised in the sandbox prior to Golden) and accordingly transported back to 180 (Unit Test) until the unit test affected by that particular config is satisfactory.
The Golden client remains the 'database' (if you wanna call it that) or you may rather call it the 'ultimate' reference client for all the good, complete and final configuration that is being used in the implementation.
In summary:
Landscape : is the arrangement for the servers
IDES : is purely for education purpose and is NOT INCLUDED in the landscape.
DEVELOPMENT ---> QUALITY -
> PRODUCTION
DEVELOPMENT : is where the the consultants do the customization as per the company's requirement.
QUALITY : is where the core team members and other members test the customization.
PRODUCTION : is where the live data of the company is recorded.
A request will flow from Dev->Qual->Prod and not backwards.
1. Sandbox server: In the initial stages of any implementation project, You are given a sandbox server where you do all the configuration/customization as per the companies business process.
2. Development Server: - Once the BBP gets signed off, the configuration is done is development server and saved in workbench requests, to be transported to Production server.
3. Production Server: This is the last/ most refined client where the user will work after project GO LIVE. Any changes/ new develpoment is done is development client and the request is transported to production.
These three are landscape of any Company. They organised their office in these three way. Developer develop their program in Development server and then transport it to test server. In testing server tester check/test the program and then transport it to Production Server. Later it will deploy to client from production server.
Presentaion Server- Where SAP GUI have.
Application Server - Where SAP Installed.
Database Server - Where Database installed.
Regards,
Padmam.

GRC: Landscape and Installation

Dear All,
My Company want to implement SAP GRC Access Control, in many of source i've found that SAP GRC is divided into 3 sequences:
1. Get Clean
2. Stay in Clean
3. Stay in Control
My Question is:
1. What is the software files to implement each of them sequences?
Actually i've read the master guide and installation guide from market place for this installation but still confused about this landscape of this installation, Please help me to install fresh SAP GRC 5.3 all above sequences? any other references?
Thanks in advance.

Hello
You are right, that the SAP GRC Access controls implementation is generally shown in three stages.
1.Get clean
2.Stay clean
3.Stay-in-control
We have four products / modules in SAP GRC Access controls :
1. Risk Analysis and Remediation (RAR)
2. Enterprise Role Management (ERM)
3.Compliant User Provisioning(CUP)
4.Superuser Privilege Management (SPM)
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STAY-CLEAN : We have three products here to install and configure in this stage, i.e ERM, CUP and SPM.
ERM : It helps in preventing further introduction of SOD violations in to the system, by making the risk analysis of roles at the point of creation itself.
CUP : Ensures the user management (assignment of roles ) is free of SOD violations
SPM : Ensures the actions of superusers free of SOD violations by tracking and controlling their activities effectively
RAR, ERM, CUP and SPM have many more benefits which will be helpful in effective access and authorization management and I mentioned only the relevant points here.
Further, all these four products are independant of each other and the sequence of configuration depends on the client's requirement. However, the integration of these products helps to reap the complete benefits of access control suite.
The general sequence of configuration would be:
RAR -> SPM -> CUP -> ERM
The Master, security, configuration guides of these products can be found @ http://help.sap.com/ businessobjects/accesscontrols and the best practices @ SDN
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Regards
Swarna

SMSY Technical System Delete and Clean-up

I need to completely delete a SID from Solution Manager: SMSY technical system, projects, logical components,ChaRM, CCMS, tansport routes, SMD, SLD, etc. I am looking for clean-up documentation. Is there a document(s) which will describe a logical progression to remove an obsolete SID? Logically, removing CCMS and Wily monitoring can occur first. A manual delete of the technical system from the SLD next? Then delete projects and logical components? A good chronological order for steps like these would be very helpful. I'd like to avoid problems with workflow and system batch jobs.

Hi Loenard,
I don't think there is any job or program to do this. Best thing to do is if your system to be deleted is still running and is still sending data to solman SLD from RZ70 then disable this by removing the hostname data and save it. this isolates the system to be removed. next in SMSY, remove system from the product landscape from "logical components" list and then you can remove the system from product systems under "landscape components". here you may need reload the product landscape in solution landscape if it doesn't go away itself. if it gives issues then you can use the "where used" button and that tells you where it is still assigned and remove it from there.
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Hi,
How many SLDs should be there in the landscape. Should there be only one SLD for DEV, QAS & PRD or should there be two SLDs; one for DEV-QAS & other for PRD or 3 SLDs; each for DEV, QAS & PRD. Also please support your replies with reasons.

Hi,
We use 2 SLD's, one for DEV, QAS and sandboxes, and another one for PRD.
The advantage is that we have a test SLD, and that the production SLD will stay clean. The disadvantage is for exemple when data from a test system needs to be sent to the PRD system, then you'll need to change the SLD connection of the system.
More info on SLD planning in the [SLD Planning Guide|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e0a1a8fb-0527-2a10-f781-8b67eab16582]

5 system landscape for MDM?

We are in the process to layout infrastructure for release 2 of our transformation project for ECC, MDM, PI, BODS. We are debating on possible solutions
1) typical 5 system landscape like below.
DEV->QA->PRD
DEV2->QA2
DEV2, QA2 are project landscape and others are maintenance landscape. After project testing, changes from QA2 will be moved to DEV, QA, PRD
2) dual landscape
Here, layout is same as option 1 but for go live changes will be moved directly from QA2 to PRD.
I like to know what are the pros/cons of each approach.

Hi Subin,
The first approach is a lot easier to manage and involves lesser risks.
Also as Vag rightly points that in case of different Vendors co-ordination is also an important point to consider before designing such a landscape.
We too used the first approach and once our major change was done,we merged the systems which in your case are DEV2 and QA2.This was a much cleaner approach.
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Removing risks and violations in existing SAP Landscape

There is a landscape where SAP ECC is already installed and we are planning to install AC 5.3. As the roles are already there in ECC Dev system, so we will perform the risk analysis in Dev and once free of risks, move the role to Production.
I would like to know, from where to start in already existing sap roles structure to free up them from risks. Do we need to provide the business process roles to indiviual BP Owners like FI roles to FI team and same for others to clear the risks and violations. Once completed from them, run them in RAR to found any risk violations remaining. If still found, follow the same process till all the roles and clean and can be moved to production.
Do we need to start from transaction level?
Any help appreciated.
Regards,
Sanjay

Sanjay,
there are various ways to achieve that and many replies are already there (pls search similar threads)
well small summary will be
1. customize standard rules per your org requirement
2. role are already existing, hence i expect they were create business wise
3. run analysis on all the role and have a report in your hand
4. discuss with various security leads of each buisness, which risk wish to be removed and which one to be mitigated
5. once done with cleaning of role, it's time you run analysis on users and mitigate or clean...........
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