SAP BW 7.x

basis customizing of the SAP BW System

Roland Kramer, Product Management BW/In-Memory

October 2009 April 2012 July 2013 November 2013

February 2016 May 2017

Please Note that the basis settings are valid for all SAP BW Releases (including BPC)

from 7.0x onwards up to SAP BW 7.50 and partially BW/4

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SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Technology Platform

Mandatory review of SAP and DB Profiles

After the initial Setup (or technical upgrade) of SAP NetWeaver 7.0x there is

only a an initial Configuration Profile available which does not meet efficient

BW/OLAP requirements. So the consulting of the following notes is a mandatory

step before the full and performant usage of the BW applications.

– SAP First Guidance – SAP BW on SAP HANA Installation/Systemcopy/HANA Revisions

contains a Profile Example for BW on HANA

– Note 1044441 - Basis parameterization for NW 7.0 BW systems

– Note 192658 - Setting basis parameters for BW Systems

– Note 830576 - Parameter recommendations for Oracle 10g not relevant for BW/4HANA

– Note 1171650 - Automated Oracle DB parameter check not relevant for BW/4HANA

– Note 702728 - Profile parameter for export/import buffer instances

– Note 656060 - OLAP: Cache main memory displacement not functioning

– Note 480710 - Profile parameters for table buffers

– Note 912367 - Composite Note: RSADMIN Parameter not relevant for BW/4HANA

Optional: create a client copy for BW with tx

SCCL relevant for BW/4HANA again

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SAP First Guidance – complete functional scope (CFS) for SAP BW/4HANA

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Check Instance Profile with tx RZ10 and ST02

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Create logical System with tx BD54

for SAP BW/4HANA the Source System must be from Type ODP

Example BW on HANA

Example BW/4HANA

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Assign Logical System to Client with tx SCC4

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Check the System Change Option with SE06

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Check the BW Basis Customizing with

SPRO F5 Business Warehouse

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Check the OLAP cache Settings with

RSCUSTV14 or RSRCACHE

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Check the default Process Settings with

tx RSODSO_SETTINGS in 7.3x and higher

Details:https://help.sap.com/viewer/2e90b26cf7484203a523bf0f4b1bc137/7.5.7/en-US/4a0fbe46f4e81b41e10000000a42189c.html

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Check the Background Settings with

tx RSBATCH

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Check the transfer parameters in general

includes flatfile and loading from internal data marts

SAP BW system

SAP ERP system

PI_BASIS_70x

transaction SBIW

transaction SBIW

flatfile

loading

transaction

RSCUSTV6

PI_BASIS_6xx

Please note that the entries

are not vice versa, every

system looks for it’s own

stored transfer parameter’s.

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Check the Transfer Values with tx SBIW

Details:https://help.sap.com/viewer/ccc9cdbdc6cd4eceaf1e5485b1bf8f4b/7.5.7/en-US/4a1df92d5c171b40e10000000a42189c.html

Example BW on HANA

Example BW/4HANA

Checking general Performance Settings

only relevant for none HANA based systems

SAP BW system

transaction

SPRO press F5

Some of these settings where introduced in SAP NetWeaver as advanced

settings in table RSADMIN.

RSCUSTV24

RSCUSTV25

RSCUSTV26

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Assign the default logon Group with tx SMLG

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Check Authorization of user BWREMOTE and

the myself connection with tx SM59 and SU01

Role SAP_RO_BCTRA

Profile S_BI-WHM_RFC

Check InfoObject 0IOBJNM

only relevant for SAP BW Systems (not BW/4HANA)

Before you start any Transaction for the start of Business Content Installation (also true before

starting transaction RSA1 which triggers the technical content Installation) in new installed

systems you must take of the InfoObject 0IOBJNM first.

So go to transaction SNRO (Number Range Object Maintenance) and look for BIM9999991.

Change the NR Status from 0 to 2 and save the changes.

After this the following transactions can be called to activate the necessary BC:

RS_PERS_ACTIVATE Activating Personalization in BEx

RSTCT_INST_BIAC Report RSTCT_ACTIVATEADMINCOCKPIT_NEW

RSTCO_ADMIN Installation SAP BW technical content

Note 1543092 - Upgrade of BP_BWADMIN 1.0 to BP_BWADMIN 3.0(BP BW ADMINISTRATION)

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Activate the technical content for BW with

tx RSTCO_ADMIN or RSTCT_INST_BIAC

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■ Please make sure that the InfoObject 0LANGU is

activated from technical content (TCT) correctly in

advance.

■ Note 984021 - Changes to InfoObject 0LANGU

■ Note 1746515 - Error while loading the template

0TPlI*

■ Check in advance, that the Web Templates for 3.x

also activated, as stated in the Note above.

■ Note 934848 - Collective note: (FAQ) BW

Administration Cockpit

■ Note 1731668 - Skip Installation of BW

Administration Cockpit

Not relevant anymore for SAP BW on HANA and BW/4HANA

Check the help pages for the CDS Views for Data Warehouse Monitoring

https://help.sap.com/viewer/107a6e8a38b74ede94c833ca3b7b6f51/1.0.3/

en-US/1e596b288f494f5d815c86cf94c3fbbb.html

Note 2447513 – BW4HANA: Starter Add-On – further corrections (4)

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Activate BEx History with Transaction RSA1

or tx RS_PERS_ACTIVATE

Note 1637935 - Short Dump RAISE_EXCEPTION RSO_CONTENT_INSTALL_BATCH X_MESSAGE

Not relevant anymore for BW/4HANA

Check the help pages for the CDS Views for Data Warehouse Monitoring

https://help.sap.com/viewer/107a6e8a38b74ede94c833ca3b7b6f51/1.0.3/

en-US/1e596b288f494f5d815c86cf94c3fbbb.html

Note 2447513 – BW4HANA: Starter Add-On – further corrections (4)

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Start the Administrator Workbench with RSA1

only relevant for SAP BW Systems (not BW/4HANA)

Not relevant anymore for BW/4HANA, as tx RSA1 only used for legacy tasks

SAP First Guidance - Implementing BW-MT as the new SAP BW Modeling Experience

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Activate Data Marts with tx RSA1 or RSORBCT

only relevant for SAP BW Systems (not BW/4HANA)

Activate Web Services with tx SICF

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SAP First Guidance – complete functional scope (CFS) for SAP BW 7.50

SAP First Guidance – complete functional scope (CFS) for SAP BW/4HANA

Transaction SICF and

SICF_INST and SGEN

Activate ABAP WebDynpro in SAP BW with

tx SICF_INST

Note 1969105 - Master data maintenance for InfoObjects does not start

Note 1088717 - Active services for Web Dynpro ABAP in transaction SICF

Transaction SICF and

SICF_INST and SGEN

Checklist for Connecting BW - ERP

define the users as type dialog first to make all logs visible

Checklist where, what

■ Define user <SID>_ALEBW in BW and R/3 R/3, BW SU01

(Make sure you have the right permissions)

■ Define logical system names (<SID>CLNT<client>) R/3, BW BD54

■ Check ALE communication (e.g. SWU3) R/3, BW SALE

■ Check RFC connection (with remote Logon) R/3, BW SM59

■ Define new source system (manually) BW RSA1

(this is automatically starting a meta data upload)

■ Customizing settings of the R/3 system R/3, BW SBIW, RSA1

(Do this before the first Data load starts)

■ Check/transfer of global settings R/3, BW RSA1

(Use this Function as a Simulation to check)

■ Activate the necessary BC Data sources R/3, BW SBIW, RSA1

■ Perform the meta data upload on the BW system R/3, BW SBIW, RSA1

Prerequisites for the System Change Option

in the production environment BW and ERP must be prepared

For a successful source system connection, the following settings are required for the system

change option during the connection process:

SCC4 client maintenance

– Changes to repository and cross-client customizing allowed

– Automatic recording of changes

– CATT and eCATT are allowed

SE06 namespaces

– Customer namespace modifiable

– Customer developments HOME modifiable

– Local developments (no automatic transport) LOCAL modifiable

– Business Warehouse SAP name space /BI0/ modifiable

– Business Warehouse Customer name space /BIC/ modifiable

When you connect productive R/3 and ERP systems to the productive SAP BW system, note

that will have to open the systems during the connection. Afterwards you can close it again.

No changes will be done afterwards.

Authorization's for the connection users (example):

(BW) BWREMOTE S_BI-WHM_RFC, S_BI-WHM_SPC, S_BI_UPLOAD (optional)

Role SAP_RO_BTCRA

(ERP) ALEREMOTE S_BI-WX_RFCA

When connecting SAP Source Systems

transfer Exchange Rates/Global Settings

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When connecting SAP Source Systems

transfer Exchange Rates/Global Settings

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Which BEx Analyzer version is called by RRMX

tx RRMX_CUST (only relevant for SAP BW)

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call Report RSCPINST with tx SE38 and

activate the settings

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Check the CTS with tx STMS and setup an

transport connection

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Check the CTS with tx STMS and setup an

transport connection

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Create a Package and assign this to the

Transport Connection with tx SE80

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Assign a new BEx Transport Request with tx

RSA1 Transport Connection (only SAP BW)

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Assign Source Systems for Business Content

with tx RSA1 Transport Connection

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Further Settings related to BW with tx RSKC

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Check Table RSADMINA with SE16

(summarize of customizing) RSADMIN

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Activate background dispatching with tx RZ21

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Assign the default menu with tx SSM2

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Create default Printer with tx SPAD

Check transactions tx STRUSTSSO2/SMICM

for the correct web dynpro support

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http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7856#section18

transaction

SMICM

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Thank you!