Strategy - Maintenance Plan - IP42

Hello All,
I have a query regarding "strategy" in Maintenance Plan IP42.
1) Need to understand the strategy field in transaction IP42 and whats its impact.
2) Also need to know how we can configure new strategies.
Best Regards
Himanshu

Hi Himanshu,
                     You can have single cycle plan as well as the Strategy Plan.
in the single cycle plan you can have only one cycle for all the operations which are defined in the task list, where as in the startegy plan you can have different cycles for all the operations in the Task list but make sure the startegy should be same in the task list and in the Strategy Plan(IP42).
Example you have a Strategy define in the unit of days in the T-Code IP11 and you have define different cycles like 7days, 15 days, 30 days, 60 days Etc.
now you are using the same Strategy in the General Task list IA05, and you have operations as 10,20,30,40,50,60........and so on.
In this condition when you are in the header of the Task list, you can find the staretgy field where you give in the same startegy defined in IP11.
then in the operations screen you can see an Icon at the bottom named as "MntPack", this is for maintenance package, if you will click here you can understand that all your operations can be assigned to 1 or more packages, for which they will be called in the Maintenance orders.
Now time to create the Strategy Maintenance Plan, now u use the T-code IP42and give in the same startegy as defined earlier and go ahead with the different entries, here if you will choose the correct Task list the system will accept and if suppose the Strategy of the task list does not matches with the startegy of the maintenance plan, the system will throw an error
Hope you can get a better idea.
regards,
yawar Khan

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