PCR's migration issues in NW 7.3

[former_member213462]

Hi ~  We are in the process of upgrading our portal landscape from NW 7.01 to NW 7.3. As part of this upgrade we also need to migrate our JSP based PCR's to NW 7.3 complaint versions. We migrated PCR "par" files to "ear" files using PAR Migration Tool and deployed them in our  NW 7.3 sandbox portal. The migrated PCR's are not working which includes out-of-box PCR Team Viewer,  PCR Selection Page etc. We checked in NWA "Start & Stop: Java Applications" page to confirm if the applications were running and noticed they were stopped. We were able to restart some apps however PCR Team Viewer would not restart and the error we see in NWA is - "Implicit stopped (dependency failed)". The associated error from the log is pasted below (in bold letters). The root cause or atleast part of the problem appears to be a utilility ear "com.sap.pct.hcm.hcm_util" which was missing after NW 7.3 upgrade. Gabbed copy of this utility from Dev portal and migrated / deployed it in Sandbox. The system for some reason does not recognize this util is deployed, and this is affecting many HCM applications some of which are listed below.

com.sap.pct.hcm.hcm_util.ear

com.sap.pct.hcm.isrdispatcher.ear

com.sap.pct.hcm.objectanddataprovider.ear

com.sap.pct.hcm.orgmanagementeventing.ear

com.sap.pct.hcm.pcrteamviewernew.ear

com.sap.pct.hcm.teamviewer.ear

Just wondering if you anyone has noticed this type of issue during your NW 7.3 upgrade project, and if so what you did to resolve them. Appreciate any information you can share in regards to this issue, and other PCR related issues.

Application sap.com/com.sap.pct.hcm.orgmanagementeventing cannot be started. Reason: it has hard reference to the following resources, which are currently not available on the system: hard to SAPPORTAL/com.sap.pct.hcm.hcm_util (public) (f=true, cl=true); . In order to start the application, components...

[Former Member]

Hi Sri,

We are also faced with similar situation, where we need to migrate certain SAP applications which were built as PARs but migration of the same is not resulting in rendering of content.

What you finally had to do?

Thanks and Regards,

Srikant

[former_member213462]

Hi Srikant ~ At a very high-level following is what we did to resolve PCR migration issues:

1. Ensure required jars are in migrated PCR project folder. This is because the migration tool for some reason was not migrating the jars, so we had to copy the required jars to migrated jsp project.

2. References to portal components within jsp's using standard portal component reference method was not working, So, we had to move some of the referenced functionality local to PCR project.

3. From what I can recall some of the core hcm services (listed below) were not running. So, we had to apply steps 1,2 to these as well and ensure they were running before attempting to start PCR applications.

     com.sap.pct.hcm.hcm_util.ear

     com.sap.pct.hcm.isrdispatcher.ear

     com.sap.pct.hcm.objectanddataprovider.ear

     com.sap.pct.hcm.orgmanagementeventing.ear

     com.sap.pct.hcm.pcrteamviewernew.ear

     com.sap.pct.hcm.teamviewer.ear

Hope this information helps!

Sri

[stuart_campbell]

SAP Netweaver 7.3 is a new Portal Netweaver release not an EHP - unlike EHPs past functionality may not be upward compatible - use of HMTLB MSS in this landscape is not guaranteed

Also HTMLB MSS is from an SAP product version that is now in customer specific maintainence so any new issues discovered may not be resolved by SAP

Please see note 1860983 for more details