SAP SRM Category Management

Dear all,
there has been an Business Scenario Category Management within SRM.
What happened to this solution? Any info and input is highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Claudia

Hi Claudia,
I believe Category Management is tied to Analytics and available from there. I found the following link with some information.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/403fe1c7-27b8-2910-72ac-d0b3b023f969
Did you find any additional information on this topic? Does anyone have additional information on this topic?
Thanks,
SG

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Question 1:
So my first question would be is there any other suggestions besides adjusting the mentioned parameter above in order to ensure that no work processors going into hang state due to RFCs' occupying it as this issue always happens at the end of the month only when there are massive users accessing it.
For immediate resolution the approach you have followed is correct viz limiting number of dialog processes for RFC. Secondly you need to analyze why RFC processing takes so much time. You need check which programs are getting executed by those RFC.
Generate EarlyWatch report for more detailed view
Question 2:
My second question is what went wrong with the libttsh11.so file. How could it be 0 size in PRD when no signs of changes had happen to the PRD system. Is this a proven Oracle Bug or something else since I have never encountered anything like this before.
The libttsh11.so library cannot be found in the related directory.
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