Preparing for SAP EHP Upgrade

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Tony de ThomasisSAPWORKS

How to prepare for an SAP upgrade -Exploit SAP tools and drive innovation

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1. Non-Unicode is swak

2. Solution Manager Tools

3. Back-End tools

4. Innovation

What we will cover


• Last support– SAP_BASIS 7.40 and Kernel Versions 7.42– No new installations– HANA DB is Unicode ONLY

• Tools

– System Status– CDMC Unicode Check– UCCHECK or SAMT

• References– SAP Note 2033243 - End of non-Unicode Support – service.sap.com/unicode

Non-Unicode is swak


• Custom Development Managament Cockpit

– Clearing Analysis (unused “z“ objects)

– Upgrade Change Impact Analysis (“z“ objects broken by upgrade)

• Data Volume Management

– Fastest growing tables

– Biggest tables

• Reverse Business Process Documentation (RBPD)

– Which transactions do I use the most

• EHP Scope and Effort Analyzer (SEA)

– Which processes will be affected by the upgrade

Solution Manager Tools


• SAP Clone finder– Find and remove unneccessary clones (CCAPPS)

• Clean up old unfinished upgrades– Application Specific Upgrade (/ASU/START)

– SAP Repository adjustments (SPAU/SPDD/SPAU_ENH)

• Custom Code Improvement– ABAP Test Cockpit & SAP Code Inspector

– /SDF/CD_CUSTOM_CODE_METRIC

– SQL Monitor (SQLM/SQLMD)

• Test Data Migration Server (TDMS)– Fiori App (SAP Note 2019006)

– In-line data scrambling

• De-Implement SAP Add-ons using SAINT– SAP Notes 2011192 and 1109650

Back-End Tools


• Upgrade Dependency Analyzer– www.service.sap.com/uda

• SAP Enterprise Support Services– https://support.sap.com/support-programs-services/programs/enterprise-

support/academy/lifecycle/upgrade.html

• SAP Product and Implementation Roadmaps– http://service.sap.com/roadmap

• SAP Improvement Finder– http://sapimprovementfinder.com

• SAP User Experience Improvements– https://demo-fioritrial.dispatcher.hana.ondemand.com/

• SAP Innovation Discovery– https://apps.support.sap.com/innovation-discovery

Innovation

http://www.service.sap.com/uda

https://support.sap.com/support-programs-services/programs/enterprise-support/academy/lifecycle/upgrade.html

http://service.sap.com/roadmap

http://sapimprovementfinder.com/

https://demo-fioritrial.dispatcher.hana.ondemand.com/

http://apps.support.sap.com/innovation-discovery

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CLEARING ANALYSIS – HIGH USED


CLEARING ANALYSIS - TABLES


CLEARING ANALYSIS – SYNTAX CHECK


UPGRADE CHANGE IMPACT ANALYSIS – OBSOLETE OBJECTS


REVERSE BUSINESS PROCESS DOCUMENTATION


EHP SCOPE AND EFFORT ANALYSER


CLONE FINDER


APPLICATION SPECIFIC UPDATE - TOOLBOX


SQL TRACE


SQL TRACETDMS - FIORI


SQL TRACETDMS - SCRAMBLE


Legend• SMP – SAP Service Marketplace• NW – SAP NetWeaver• SM – SAP Solution Manager

Bonus slide (Most Important Tools)


• Data Migration Option– Upgrade and move to

HANA in one breath

– Good for ECC and BW

– Tied closley into SUM

– Build HANA Shadow DB

– SAP Note 1813548

• SAP Note 1678564 nZDM

Bonus slide (SAP DMO)




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Preparing for SAP EHP Upgrade