Multiuser Development in Dev and Promotion to Prod

The following is the Dev to Prod development lifecycle as I see it from reading posts on this site as well as other links that have been included in related posts. I would appreciate feedback from anyone who feels there is a better way or identifies issues with this approach.
1. Create shared folder
2. Create projects in master Dev repository and copy rpd to shared folder
3. Allow users to checkin and checkout projects to shared repository
4. Schedule overwrites of master Dev repository with shared Dev repository to move developer changes to the dev environment? ->This one is more of a question. Is this the best practice? As I understand it, new projects are created in the master repository, but I don’t want to overwrite the shared repository every time I need to create projects. How have others handled this?
5. Once Dev is ready to move to production, copy changed objects from master Dev repository and paste in Prod repository? Again this is more of a question. This is what I have read, but seems very prone to user error if minor changes have been made by the developer and are not apparent to the Administrator. I likely wouldn’t want to do a straight copy of the Dev rpd to Pod as security is not the same in both environments.
Thanks in advance for any feedback!

basically you want to compare the cube structure, transformations, dtp rite?
you'll have to compare using tables... you can create a abap program that will login prd system using RFC connection and get the data... otherwise, just take table dumps and compare it.
check table RSDCUBEIOBJ this will give u list of IO in cube. take list from both system and check if number match
check table RSTRAN for transformations.. this will give header data... check in transformation if you have any rule group defined.. as rule group can change the no of records to double / triple etc.
check RSTRANFIELD table for field mapping in transformation
RSTRANRULE table for rule details..
use RSBKDTP table for checking DTP

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Risk Analysis result different in DEV and PROD

Hi Gurus,
I have modified few functions in development and transported the changes but after transport there is a new SOD produced at the user level and with same access in Development there is no violation when I checked the function permission there is two duplicate entries in production ruleset compared to Development. Do I need to remove the duplicate entries in production and then run risk analysis is this going to fix SOD ?
My assumption is GRC 10 doesn't have ability to transport changes for deletion in functions.
Regards,
Salman

Dear Salman,
looks that the rules have been appended so it shows twice.
I suggest to download the correct rules from DEV and upload in PROD again. You can use program GRAC_UPLOAD_RULES to upload in PROD. Please make sure you set the option to overwrite, and not append.
With GRAC_RULE_DELETE you can also delete the rules before you upload (not necessary, but possible).
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Alessandro

Dev and Prod Environment Sync.

Hello Experts,
I would like to ask for your kind help in the following matter: How to resynch the dev and production environments.
For some (inextricable) reason, the production and development servers are out of sync. Mainly the SLD content is in different versions. The production one is older. Oh and there is no QA environment.
Besides that the business systems were created manually in each server and have inconsistencies. No SLD information was transported between them, only the repository and some directory information. Other directory information was created in the production environment directly. And I am affraid some development took place in production server directly too.
So I have been asked to produce a plan to get all this mess into shape. So far at a macro level I have these tasks planned:
10.- Backup prod and dev servers.
20.- Load latest CIM model and CR content on both servers (and see what happens).
30.- Connect the SAP systems as SLD data sources to prod SLD.
40.- Redo configuration in prod to point to automatically created business systems (and retest).
50.- Cleanup of manually created business systems the prod environment.
60.- Config the prod SLD as data source for dev SLD.
70.- Redo configuration in dev server to make it match prod SLD.
80.- Cleanup of manually created business systems the dev environment.
90.- Create in the dev server the repository objects that were directly created in prod.
100.- Test everything for consistency.
Please help me improve the task list/order.
-Sam.

Hi Sam
You are planning a lot of activity on a production environment. Two coments:
1. When you have your dev SLD configured as you require, with CIM, PI Content & Business Systems updated etc .. perhaps you should do a level of regression testing on this environment before embarking on changing the Live env.
2. Once you are happy that the Dev env It is possible to Export and import manually the SLD content from the Dev to the Live to align both systems, refer to link:
https://websmp104.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000315022005E.PDF
This is available through the Export Link in Administration page.
Thanks
Damien

Consistency between dev and prod systems!!!!

Hi All,
I wuld like to check the consistency between Dev and Prod systems for all the Data model and other objects existing. I would like to do this sanity check to see whether the two systems are in sync. Are there any tools or transaction codes within SAP framework which can guide me in this direction.
Kind Regards,
Surya Tamada.

Hi Surya ,
First build whole data flow :
1 .Create Infoarea ,Infoobjects & Masterdata ,Infoproviders ,Infoobject Catelog under Infoarea,MetaData - Characteristics MeteData - Key Figures
2 DSOs ,Infocubes ,Infosets, Multiproviders ,Views in the development system ,Datasources for BW system,Flat File Datasources,Transformations
then get data from the se11 tables as per your requirement :
like RSDVCHA ,RSDBCHATR,RSDCUBEIOBJ,RSDICMULTIIOBJ etc and built view on it as per your requirement .
then built flat file data sources and transformation .
get all data downloaded to flat file in ur PC .In the same way from other system.
make flow from PC File Datasource -> DSO -> Infocube and build queries for different objects .load the downloaded files to them and then run query .
ex : query to compare cube will take cube name and systems name as input and compare objects .
Regards,
Jaya

SYSTEM LANDSCAPE - DEV and PROD - refresh

Hi All,
We have a situation like this.
1. Our BW Q&A is a copy of PROD
2. Our BW DEV is not either a copy of Q&A or PROD.
3. We have issue with a particular process chain in PROD and we need to correct (and follow the lanscape..that is want to do the correction in DEV and the transport to QA and then to PROD)
4. Since this particular process chain is not existing in the DEV environment, our Basis team is advising us to check the difference in DEV and PROD for as this process chain concern and then want to refresh it to DEV system so that we can carry out the change/modification.
We don't know really what exactly we need to find the differences between DEV and PROD for this PC and then to inform to Basis team...
Is it correct that since the particular process chain associated with various queries,data targets,update/transfer structures...etc will be over writen / copied / refreshed in DEV system from PROD?
Please advise..Please help..

Hi George, SAT, BWer,
Thanks for your messages.
George : Answers to your question:
1. Our Basis team want to copy all the configuration (related to the particular process chain only)and not Data's.
2. How to pack the process chain in a portable file and extract this file. then import it into DEV..and what is the way not to get error when doing so (knowing that fact that obejects will be different..) I don't know..whether to copy the objects are or not..
3.I agree with you.. Even we are ready to work with DEV to PROD..
SAT: Answers to your questions:
1. I do see some Process chains in the DEV and not related to this particular PC. Many development PC are there..and I don't know where the originally developed PC's ???!!
2. I am new to this Client..sorry..how this has been deleted...
BWer :Answers to your questions:
1. Yes..PC is Latest in the PROD.
2. We don't want to create the process chain all the way from scratch in the DEV. Yes..This is one of the process chain used in the metachain...Totally there are five chains in the PROD related to this..We need to modify only the second process chain..which we are trying to copy in the DEV and then do the changes...
Hope , you are clear about our requirement.
Please advise me what exactly we need to look into the DEV and PROD system so that required PC is copied alomg with (????) to DEV system..Please help.
Thank you very much in Advance..

Performance problems between dev and prod

I run the same query with identical data and indexes, but one system takes a 0.01 seconds to run while the production system takes 1.0 seconds to run. TKprof for dev is:
Rows Row Source Operation
1 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID VAP_BANDVALUE
3 NESTED LOOPS
1 NESTED LOOPS
41 NESTED LOOPS
41 NESTED LOOPS
1 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID VAP_PACKAGE
1 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN SYS_C0032600 (object id 51356)
41 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID VAP_BANDELEMENT
41 AND-EQUAL
82 INDEX RANGE SCAN IDX_BE2 (object id 53559)
41 INDEX RANGE SCAN IDX_BE1 (object id 53558)
41 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID VAP_BAND
41 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN SYS_C0034599 (object id 53556)
1 INDEX UNIQUE SCAN SYS_C0032549 (object id 51335)
1 INDEX RANGE SCAN IDX_BV1 (object id 53557)Tkprof for Prod is :
Rows Execution Plan
0 SELECT STATEMENT MODE: ALL_ROWS
1 TABLE ACCESS MODE: ANALYZED (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'VAP_BANDVALUE' (TABLE)
52001 NESTED LOOPS
26000 NESTED LOOPS
26000 NESTED LOOPS
26000 NESTED LOOPS
1 TABLE ACCESS MODE: ANALYZED (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'VAP_PACKAGE' (TABLE)
1 INDEX MODE: ANALYZED (UNIQUE SCAN) OF 'SYS_C0018725' (INDEX (UNIQUE))
26000 TABLE ACCESS MODE: ANALYZED (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'VAP_BANDELEMENT' (TABLE)
26000 INDEX MODE: ANALYZED (RANGE SCAN) OF 'IDX_BE2' (INDEX)
26000 TABLE ACCESS MODE: ANALYZED (BY INDEX ROWID) OF 'VAP_BAND' (TABLE)
26000 INDEX MODE: ANALYZED (UNIQUE SCAN) OF 'SYS_C0030648' (INDEX (UNIQUE))
26000 INDEX MODE: ANALYZED (UNIQUE SCAN) OF 'SYS_C0018674' (INDEX (UNIQUE))
26000 INDEX MODE: ANALYZED (RANGE SCAN) OF 'IDX_BV1' (INDEX).The row count varies greatly. But it shouldn't as the data is the same.
Any ideas?

From DEV you show the Row Source Operations for the query. The column named "Rows" signifies the actual number of rows processed with each step.
From PROD you show the Execution Plan for the query; that is, tkprof was executed with the EXPLAIN option which generates the execution plan as of the time when tkprof was run. The "Rows" column in the Explain Plan output comes from the PLAN_TABLE.CARDINALITY, which represents an estimate by the CBO for the number of rows [expected to be] processed with each step.
So, if by <quote>The row count varies greatly</quote> you meant these "Rows" columns outputs then you're are comparing actuals from a database with estimates from another. Get the Row Source Operations from both.
"Identical data and indexes":
1. data may be the same, but it is not necessarily stored physically the same way.
2. Indexes being the same means their definitions are the same; again, physically they are not necessarily identical
In other words, data in PROD (the way it is stored on disk) may have evolved as a result of discrete deletes/updates/inserts ... in DEV it could be, for example, stored more compact if you took a copy of PROD and moved into DEV. So, the number of blocks for your segments will likely be different between PROD and DEV, the clustering factor for your indexes are likely different, etc ... things which could [and do] influence the CBO. The statistics may be different.
I guess what I'm saying is ... it is quite hard, if not outright impossible, to get two identical databases/instances/load ... hence, don't expect the executions to be 100% identical, even if you have "identical data and indexes". By all means compare between DEV and PROD (make sure you compare the same thing though) and use the observed differences as an indicator for further investigation ... don't chase the goal of 100% identical behavior.
Now, by all means look at that query taking 1 second in PROD ... I have only addressed <quote>The row count varies greatly. But it shouldn't as the data is the same.</quote>

# Need help setting up DW CS3 local, dev and prod sites

Hi all,
I'm currently building a site in DW CS3 and wanted to
structure things so I could develop, test, then publish in a more
structured manner. What I'd like to have is the follow setup (sorry
for the botched diagram):
Computer 1 Computer 2
(local dev1) (local dev2)
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Test Environment
(common)
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Prod Environment
(on my web host server)
I assume that there's a way to do this in DW, but I can't
seem to find a good tutorial on it. Now I'm working on all pages on
my iMac, previewing in the browser to check, and then pushing them
to the web host to update my site. This is happening in bits and
pieces, and I'd much rather develop everything locally and then
push the site in one (or just fewer) moves.
Also, I'd like for another user to be able to develop and
hopefully publish to the test environment before pushing to prod.
Is there a way to organize and control things so our files stay
somewhat in sync?
Thanks in advance,
Mike

I recommend downloading and installing XAMPP

免 Chaines Char not accepted in QA system, working fine in Dev and PROD

Hi Experts,
I am stuck withchines char e.g. 免
BW QA is not accepting it, I can see the PSA data 免 converted to #, where as same records show proper 免 in BW DEV and PROD.
I checked the data in source system (RSA3) properly showing 免.
I rechecked the SM59 RFC setting in QA and compare with DEV.
All system are unicode supported.
Please help to resolve.
Thank-You.
Regards,
VB

I crated a new flat file text datasource and tried to load data (chines char) and that to work in QA.
Don't understand what's issue with 0CUST_SALES_ATTR extractor. ?
Any help/experience is welcome.
Thank-You.
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How to transport a query created in system development to quality and prod?

Hi All,
I'd like to know ow to transport a query created in system development to quality and prod?
Thanks

Hi,
Queries are not saved under any transport request.
We would have to go to transaction sq02 and click on the 'Transport' button ( with truck icon).
In the screen specify your query name, infoset name, and usergroup name and select the option 'Download'.
Save the downloaded file on your desktop.
In your quality or production system, go to SQ02 and click on teh same button,
select 'Upload' and specify the name of the query, infoset and usergroup which you want to upload.
Select the downloaded file.
Select the option 'Overwritting allowed' as applicable.
Thanks,
Harini

Transporting a query created in system development to quality and prod ...

Hi All,
I'd like to know how to transport a query created in system development to quality and prod?
Thanks

From the menu on top in SQVI or SQ01 transactions, choose Query -> More functions -> Generate program. Then choose Query -> More functions -> Display report name. This report is an ABAP report (just like any other ABAP program). Please check with an ABAPer if this report can be pushed into a Workbench Transport request, so you could then move it to QA and Prod.

Multiple connections to dev and prod

Hi All,
I trying to connect multiple environments (Dev and Prod) from shared connections in Smartview.
When I right click on the existing planning I couldn't see anything (there were suggestions from other posts that by right clicking you will get an option to add new server).
Also I have differetn URL's for dev and Prod.

I think from 11.1.2.2 onwards the ability to add servers in Shared Connection is removed and an enhancement is filed to have that ability.
You can use private connection to connect to different instances
http://DEV:19000/aps/APS for Essbase
http://DEV:19000/HyperionPlanning/SmartView HyperionPlanning
If you are on 11.1.2.3 you can create an XML file and use that as your Shared Connection
Essbase Labs: Smart View News
Regards
Celvin
http://www.orahyplabs.com

Query Execution time is different in DEV and PROD

Hi,
Query is as follows:
SELECT DISTINCT tds.*
FROM testdev.contract_trans npq, testdev.contract_trans_group tds
WHERE npq.contract_trans_group_id = tds.id
AND tds.contract_id <> :contractid
AND tds.tradingday_date BETWEEN :fromtradingday AND :totradingday
AND tds.category_id = :categoryid
AND tds.state_id = :entitystateid
AND EXISTS
(SELECT *
FROM testdev.contract_trans npq1,
testdev.contract_trans_group tds1
WHERE npq1.contract_trans_group_id = tds1.id
AND tds1.contract_id = :contractid
AND (npq.network_point_id = npq1.network_point_id
OR (npq.network_point_id IS NULL
AND npq1.network_point_id IS NULL))
AND tds.tradingday_date = tds1.tradingday_date
AND tds.category_id = tds1.category_id
AND tds.state_id = tds1.state_id)
This query is taking 500ms of time to execute in DEV and when it is executing in Prod it is execuiting in 1.10min. I also analyze the table as well as use hint on this. But the time is not getting reduce in Prod. I compare the tables of dev and prod but data is on shink.
row execution plan for DEV :
call count cpu elapsed disk query current rows
Parse 1 0.00 0.01 0 0 0 0
Execute 1 1.62 1.57 0 0 0 0
Fetch 2 0.81 0.78 0 1208 0 364
total 4 2.43 2.37 0 1208 0 364
Misses in library cache during parse: 1
Optimizer mode: CHOOSE
Parsing user id: 5 (SYSTEM)
Rows Row Source Operation
364 HASH UNIQUE (cr=1208 pr=0 pw=0 time=783194 us)
545 FILTER (cr=1208 pr=0 pw=0 time=775342 us)
545 HASH JOIN (cr=1208 pr=0 pw=0 time=774670 us)
99432 TABLE ACCESS FULL CONTRACT_TRANS (cr=382 pr=0 pw=0 time=465 us)
18225 HASH JOIN (cr=826 pr=0 pw=0 time=359469 us)
1000 HASH JOIN (cr=445 pr=0 pw=0 time=108528 us)
46 TABLE ACCESS FULL CONTRACT_TRANS_GROUP (cr=223 pr=0 pw=0 time=48274 us)
675 TABLE ACCESS FULL CONTRACT_TRANS_GROUP (cr=222 pr=0 pw=0 time=51497 us)
99432 TABLE ACCESS FULL CONTRACT_TRANS (cr=381 pr=0 pw=0 time=182 us)
And row execution plan for PROD:
call count cpu elapsed disk query current rows
Parse 1 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0
Execute 1 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0
Fetch 2 80.03 78.40 219 319722 0 364
total 4 80.03 78.41 219 319722 0 364
Misses in library cache during parse: 0
Optimizer mode: CHOOSE
Parsing user id: 5 (SYSTEM)
Rows Row Source Operation
364 HASH UNIQUE (cr=319722 pr=219 pw=0 time=78406184 us)
545 FILTER (cr=319722 pr=219 pw=0 time=78385884 us)
545 HASH JOIN (cr=319722 pr=219 pw=0 time=78384017 us)
675 TABLE ACCESS FULL CONTRACT_TRANS_GROUP (cr=222 pr=219 pw=0 time=328724 us)
2380118 NESTED LOOPS (cr=319500 pr=0 pw=0 time=71521450 us)
837 HASH JOIN (cr=603 pr=0 pw=0 time=315980 us)
46 TABLE ACCESS FULL CONTRACT_TRANS_GROUP (cr=222 pr=0 pw=0 time=48647 us)
99432 TABLE ACCESS FULL CONTRACT_TRANS (cr=381 pr=0 pw=0 time=100990 us)
2380118 TABLE ACCESS FULL CONTRACT_TRANS (cr=318897 pr=0 pw=0 time=70077111 us)
Can any body help me out why this is happening?
Regards,
Saptadip

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The query on PROD is doing lots more of reads/processing much more rows then on DEV.
For example, take table CONTACT_TRANS:
- less than 100,000 rows on DEV
vs
more than 2,300,000 on PROD.
but data is on shink.What does that mean?

Analysis Authorization In Dev and impact of reports and roles in prod trans

Hello,
We are planning to switch to analysis authorization. We plan to make that change first in Dev and we were wondering what would be the impact on roles and reports we transport from dev (which is switched to Analysis Authorization) to production( on Old authirization) ? We wont transport new things to production till we switch to new auth in Prd.
Thanks a lot,
BP.

Hello
Even if you are transporting the roles from dev to quality and production, the analysis authorization objects will not be checked until you set "current procedure..." in RSCUSTV23.
So there is no harm in transporting the roles and auhotrization until you change the concept to analysis.
regards,
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Working with version management and promotion management best practices BO 4.1

Hi Experts
I wondered if anybody knows if there is a document or something about best practices to work with the version management and promotion management in BO 4.1?
Our Environment includes two servers. The first one is our development and test server. The second server is our prod system.
Now on the dev server we have basically two folders called dev and test. We control access to them with a right system based on the folder structure.
My question now is how you would work in this scenario (third server is not an option). Main target is to have as few reports as possible. Therefore we try to work with the version management system and only have one version of each report in the dev folder of the cms. But this is where problems start. Sometimes the newest version is not the version we want to publish to the test folder or even prod server.
How would you publish the report to the other folder? Make a copy of the concerned report (transport to the same system via promotion management is not possible). Also how would you use the version management in regards to the folder structure? Only use version management in dev folder and export reports to test folder (out of vms control) or also use vms in test folder and how would that work?
Further more I’d be interested in learning best practices with promotion management. I found out that the promotion of a report that doesn’t exist in prod doesn’t make any problems. But as soon as an older version already exists there is only partial success and the prod folder gets renamed to “test”.
Any suggestions on how to handle these problems?
Thank you and regards
Lars

Thank you for your answer.
So you are basically proposing to work with the vms in the dev folder and publish the desired version to the test folder. And the test folder is out of version control in this scenario if I understood you correctly (like simple data storage)?
And how would you suggest promoting reports to the prod system? Simply by promoting the
desired version from dev folder directly to prod? This would probably lead to inconsistence because we would need to promote from dev system to test and dev to prod instead of promoting a straight line from dev over test to prod. Furthermore it would not solve the problem of the promoting result itself (A new folder called dev will be generated in prod but the report gets promoted to the prod folder if there was no report before).
Thank you for the link. I came across this page just a few days ago and found also lots
of other tutorials and papers describing the basic promoting process. The promoting process in general is clear to me but I wondered if it is possible to change some parameters to prevent folder renaming for example.
Regards
Lars

Single-Tier in Dev / Multi-Tier in Prod - BPC5.1 - are there any issues?

Background: We are a new install of SAP BPC 5.1 and initially planned to have both Dev and Prod as a single tier install. In the Blueprint design review, the recommendation was made and accepted to have production as a Multi-Tier landscape. Due to tight timelines, the customer will go-live on the Production Multi-tier landscape and Dev in a Single Tier configuration. As soon as possible, we will move Dev to a Multi-Tier install as well to synchronise Dev to Prod.
Question: Other than being uncommon, is there any know issues with having this current dissimilar landscape?
Edited by: Penelope Thomson on Dec 17, 2007 12:15 PM

There's nothing uncommon about having a development environment that isn't an exact macth to production. Many clients that have large mutli-server configurations don't invest that much money and resources in thier development environment. The downside is that when you do things such as stress testing, user acceptance testing and other configurations in development, you really have to do them again in production if you want a fully tested environement.
Also, if you have different software components (e.g. 64bit OS in production and 32bit in development) you are dealing with different service packs and other components that can have different issues. I've also run into differences in authentication issues between a simple and more complex environment depending on how the components are arranged.
These should all be issues the technical consultant that is doing the server configurations can discuss with you. The bottom line is you'll want to make sure you have the production environment setup with enough time to do a through testing before go-live. As far as moving the application from development to production, going from a single server to mutli-server shouldn't be an issues as long as you're using server mananger to do the backup and restore.

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