Not your Grandma's upgrade

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Tony de Thomasis
SAPWORKS
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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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CLEARING ANALYSIS – HIGH USED

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CLEARING ANALYSIS - TABLES

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CLEARING ANALYSIS – SYNTAX CHECK

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UPGRADE CHANGE IMPACT ANALYSIS – OBSOLETE OBJECTS

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REVERSE BUSINESS PROCESS DOCUMENTATION

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EHP SCOPE AND EFFORT ANALYSER

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CLONE FINDER

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APPLICATION SPECIFIC UPDATE - TOOLBOX

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SQL TRACE

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SQL TRACE
TDMS - FIORI

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SQL TRACE
TDMS - SCRAMBLE

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Legend
• SMP – SAP Service Marketplace
• NW – SAP NetWeaver
• SM – SAP Solution Manager
Bonus slide (Most Important Tools)

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• 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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Tony.deThomasis@sapworks.com.au
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