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SU25 after EHP4 installation

Former Member

‎11-17-2009 12:39 AM

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Hello,

We completed an ECC 6.0 upgrade in August 2009 with no Enhancement Packages included. We have now installed EHP4 in a test system with technical usages Central Applications, HCM, DIMP, ESA ECC-SE and Business Client selected. We have not activated any Business Functions yet. Our first attempt to run PFCG after the EHP4 install prompted us to run SU25 just as we did after the ECC 6.0 upgrade. We have 725 transactions and 1962 roles that need to be adjusted. These numbers are similar to the ones we had to adjust during the ECC 6.0 upgrade. Will this be the case each time we install a new EHP in the future? Will we have to reconcile this number of objects with every EHP upgrade based on our selections?

Best Regards,

Matt

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Bernhard_SAP
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Employee

‎11-17-2009 10:06 AM

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Hi Matt,

the implementation of an EHP is technically an upgrade. Therefore the SU25-popup appears in PFCG.

Please remember, that in SU25 the result lists are simply created by comparing existing values with SAP delivered values.

So to find out, what is really new. you will need to compare SU22 before/after the EHP.

Only then you can really estimate, what is new.

Depending on how many modified values you have in SU24 compared to SU22 and if these values differ or not from the 'new' SU22 values, the result in SU25 will be different.

Of course, if you decided not to update the SU25 results by editing them after the ECC upgrade, they will show up again after the EHP upgrade....

So what I wanted to say is: once you have set everything to 'green', the necessary work will be smaller during the next upgrade.

b.rgds,

Bernhard

Edited by: Bernhard Hochreiter on Nov 17, 2009 11:07 AM

Former Member

‎11-17-2009 11:43 AM

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Thanks Bernhard. This gives us a better understanding of what to expect when planning for our future EHP upgrades.

Best Regards,

Matt

Former Member
In response to Former Member

‎11-17-2009 9:10 PM

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2 "tricks" you can use are:

1) Objects which are critical for your implementation (some BC objects are good candidates...) can be removed from SU24. Document them and the procedure, and then clean them out against in one swoop when SAP introduces them for your choice of transactions. This makes "2c" easier and PFCG as well each time.

2) Another trick is to create "original data" for the system. This is an exception where the SAP tables (SU22) are maintained with user ID's other than 'SAP' (or some SAP developer's names who did the same without anonymizing the trace records in earlier times...). If you clean those first before performing step 1 then you can use this approach as well.

It really does make your life easier, but I do not recommend it if you are not very familiar with SU24, SU25 and the "original data" trace mechanism and the various prerequisites to make it work consistently. You should also update and correct the originators of the step 2D data and the SE97 data.

From my experiences, these changes can often be combined with reimplementing a lot of roles or the whole concept to make it maintainable going forward. You will generally find all sorts of opponents to any change... if you start fresh and support them with such cleanups, then they are all very thankfull. Just being honest.

Cheers,

Julius

Edited by: Julius Bussche on Nov 17, 2009 10:11 PM