Tag: Readiness

GTS Edition for Hana readiness check

If your company is running a GTS (global trade system) it might consider a conversion to GTS Edition for HANA. The GTS version for HANA has a different functional scope than a regular GTS system. It might be some functions are no longer supported on GTS Edition for HANA, some might be different, but also new functions might be available.

SAP GTS, edition for SAP HANA: Conversion readiness check

To get the right input for your business, you can run the conversion readiness check. Load OSS note 3033398 – SAP GTS, edition for SAP HANA: Conversion readiness check into your development system and transport it to your productive GTS system. The tool you can already run on development to get an impression, but must finally be run in production to make sure the data checks are done properly.

The note delivers program /SAPSLL/READINESS_CHK_V8000. This program you run in the system. The output is directly a list of items that might require your attention:

OSS note 2973223 – SAP Global Trade Services, edition for SAP HANA: Conversion readiness check – conflict clarification contains extra explanation on the checks.

Unlike most of the other readiness checks, no upload to SAP is required. You just run the check locally.

SAP Readiness check for Cloud ALM

SAP will stop supporting SAP solution manager by 31.12.2027. All its functions will be migrated to SAP Cloud ALM.

The SAP readiness check for Cloud ALM will check the usage of current functions in your SAP solution manager and will validate if replacements in Cloud ALM are already present.

Since Cloud ALM is constantly growing in functionality you better run this check yearly. It is up to each customer to decide to move to SAP Cloud ALM for part of the functions or to wait until all functions are available.

There are other readiness checks as well:

Preparation in SAP solution manager

Apply the latest version of SAP note 3236443 – SAP Readiness Check for SAP Cloud ALM to your SAP solution manager system. Run program /SDF/RC_ALM_COLLECT_DATA in your solution manager production system.

It might be that your RFC for destination WEBADMIN is not setup correctly. That will cause a short dump.

If you are not using Trace Analysis function, you can remove code to this call in the local definition of class /SDF/CL_RC_ALM:

Running the check

Run program /SDF/RC_ALM_COLLECT_DATA in your solution manager production system. Select the option Schedule Analysis:

When the job is finished select Download Analysis Data and save the file.

Upload the result file on the Readiness page in SAP for me on this URL.

Result of the check

After the upload, wait up to 1 hour for SAP to process the results. For full explanation of the checks, read this SAP blog. Short description is below:

Top left you get an overview of the capabilities that were detected that are currently in use in Solution manager, or were used in the past:

Below is the most important overview. This shows if your used functions are available on Cloud ALM or will come in the near future, or only on the far Vision future:

SAP Cloud ALM positioning

Read more on SAP Cloud ALM positioning in this blog.

SAP Cloud ALM activation

Read more on SAP Cloud ALM activation in this blog.

Solution manager clean up

For parts of solution manager that you don’t use, you can perform the technical clean up.