Usage of Solman for ECC Upgrade Management

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are upgrading SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.

How can I use Solman for managing this Upgrade Project. As per my understanding I can do following things in Solman

1) Define Upgrade Project, Add logical components both Maintenance & Upgrade landscape

2) Activate ChaRM

3) Activate Retrofit & CSOL

Apart from this any other activities I can do in Solman for ECC upgrade management project

Regards

P Kumar

[Former Member]

Hi Kumar,

You can used Solution manager tool CDMC for this , there are 3 scenarios in this.

First two scenarios can be use as follows:

1) Clearing Analysis (CA) -  To know the usage of the custom objects

2) Upgrade Change Impact Analysis (UCIA) - To check the impact of an upgrade in custom objects    and get the effort estimation.

You may also refer SAP Notes 1244713,1316694.

Note 1321095 is specially for UCIA knowledgebase scenario if you do not have upgraded system with you.

Best Regards,

Pritish

[prakhar_saxena]

Hi Kumar,

As Jansi already mentioned Solution Manager has several capabilities

You can check the entire wiki here

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7684

But practically, you can use whatever you have configured and available for use.

If you are going to do upgrade for ECC , check the functionality already configured within sol man and you can use it only then for e.g. UCIA of CDMC etc

thus, decide which is practically suitable for you

Hope this helps

Regards

Prakhar

[Former Member]

Hi Kumar,

Solution manager would support end to end application life cycle management functionalities, start from design till the retirement of the systems in your landscape.

1. regarding upgrade, it would be under the maintenance and optimization phase, I could say the other features like change impact analysis of BPCA for identifying the testing effort before the upgrade start. refer

2. There is another important feature is Upgrade /change impact analysis of CDMC, which help to identify testing effort for custom programs

3. Other than that the whole new test management strategy also comes in to support upgrade projects.

4. you can use our document management for test case storage

5. DVM also play major role in upgrade to optimize the downtime as low as possible.

refer here http://global.sap.com/latinamerica/services/support/pdf/WP_SAP_Standard_Data_Volume.pdf 

Thanks

Jansi

[Former Member]

Hi Kumar,

Managing ECC upgrade in the solman use the BPCA for analysis custom changes , custom code development ...and upgrade the system. check the below link for more details

https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000960492012E.pdf

https://websmp201.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000973522012E/index.htm

Follow the below documnet for MOPZ step to generate the xml in solman

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-26893

Rg,

Karthik

[karthikeyan_natarajan4]

Hi Kumar,

Please go through this document - https://websmp106.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000393652011E

regards

kartik

[former_member45419]

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[Reagan]

Hello

We are upgrading SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.
How can I use Solman for managing this Upgrade Project.

You need a Solution Manager system to create a stack file for the upgrade.

Without a stack file you cannot start the upgrade.

Regards

RB