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All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 2 SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SPS 12 Areas of new features • Process Management • Test Suite • Change Control Management • Application Operation • Business Process Operation • Landscape Management © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 3 Process Management SPS 12 delta features Automatically move elements from process step reference into originals Description Business Processes My-Business Simplified movement of elements from a process step reference to its original. My-Scenario Proces-1 PS-A <REF> Details • Document 1 Document 2 Execution via report RSMUD_MOVE_TO_ORIGINAL_BULK Fiori App PS-B <REF> • Test Doc 1 Support mass moving from different process steps Step 1: Assign elements to step reference Executable • Support moving of multiple elements in one activity (e.g. documents, executable, test documents) Libraries Document 1 PS-C <REF> Process Step Library Config Document 2 Fiori App Benefits P-Step Folder Test Doc 1 PS-A <ORG> • Executable Document 1 Eases end user work on business process level Config Document 2 • Simplified harmonization of Business Processes and Libraries Fiori App PS-B <ORG> Test Doc 1 Executable Step 2: Run report and select elment to be moved from step reference to original PS-C <ORG> © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC Config 5 Enhanced column settings Description Harmonized column setting for various Solution Documentation operations. Details Adding, sorting and moving of columns for the following operations: • Assigning Documents • Assigning Testcases • Assigning Process Steps • Assigning Executables • Assigning Developments • Assigning Interfaces • Assigning Configuration Benefits • Unified user experience for column settings in all Solution Documentation UIs © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 6 Show process structure and document links with the element name Description Extended option to link Solution Documentation elements based on the element name. Business Processes Human Resources Time Management Record working time Details • Display name based links for process elements and its assignments • Use name-based links in further applications Document: FSP_CNA386_24_Record_Working_Time_test Benefits Record working time • Clear, readable and shorter links • User knows immediately which elements are linked © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC Copy & Paste 7 Browser independent usage of edit online for Documents Description You can make use of edit online feature for documents in any supported browser. Details Save your work via edit online directly in the document • No usage of ACF control and related restriction to use Internet Explorer anymore • Edit online via SAP GUI office control in background • See SAP Note 3009338 Benefits • Reduced end user effort • Better usability and user acceptance © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC Online • Edit Save 8 Merging logical component groups Description Business Processes My-Business Option to replace one logical component group with another in the business process hierarchy. My-Scenario Proces-1 PS-A LCG: ERP PS-B • Flexibility to change the Logical Component Group of process steps and assignments without the need to delete and recreate the elements LCG: ERP PS-C LCG: ERP Libraries LCG: S4H Merge / Replace Details LCG: S4H LCG: S4H Process Step Library P-Steps Benefits Merge / Replace • PS-A LCG: ERP PS-B Save time performing corrections to the business process hierarchy LCG: ERP PS-C LCG: ERP • Improved usability LCG: S4H LCG: S4H LCG: S4H Executable Library My-LCG © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC View Maintenance LCG: ERP Object Navigator LCG: ERP Dictionary Maintenance LCG: ERP Merge / Replace BC-… LCG: S4H LCG: S4H LCG: S4H 9 Report usage and performance data for managed system executables Description SAP Solution Manager Retrieve usage and performance data of executables from the managed systems. BPCA Details • • • Usage data is represented by the number of dialog steps of an executable in a given timeframe Performance intensity is defined as the average response time of all dialog steps (in seconds or milliseconds) in a given timeframe Managed System SEA Solution Documentation Data can be leveraged by BPCA / SEA Data is retrieved and stored based on given settings ST03N Settings & Customizing Executable Usage and Performance Data is collected Data is sourced from the SAP workload statistics in the SAP Workload Monitor (ST03N) Benefits • Reduced testing scope © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 10 Test Suite SPS 12 delta features Test Suite innovations Two main innovation streams User Experience • Test packages and sequences maintenance Customer Influence • Custom test plan copy improvement • Archiving • Performance improvement in test sequence UI © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 12 Improved maintenance for test packages and test sequences Description Simplification of the test plan lock mechanism. Details It is now possible to maintain (create or edit) several test packages or test sequences belonging to the same test plan at the same time, as long as there is no dependency between them. Benefits • Improved usability • Increased productivity © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 13 Test Suite archiving Description Archiving functionality for Test Suite objects. Details • Archiving and Destruction of Test Plans, Test Packages and Test Sequences with archiving objects SMT_TPLN, SMT_TPCK and SMT_TFLW • These archiving objects are now SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) enabled Benefits • Reduced storage space © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 14 Custom test plan copy Description Custom selection of test case statuses during test plan copy, based on the following improvement request: https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/idea/226228 Details Capability to refine the scope of copied test cases while copying test plans. Choose the new radio button Custom selection and select various test case statuses Benefits • Improved user experience • Increased productivity © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 15 Change Control Management SPS 12 delta features Automatic creation of test plan based on assigned Solution Documentation entries Description New possibility to directly create a test plan from a change document or request for change. The basis for the automatic creation is the assigned solution documentation structures and their corresponding test cases. Details • Accessible via the Test Management assignment block • New function: “Add New Test Plan from Solution Documentation” Benefits • Closer integration between Change Request Management and Test Management • Higher degree of automation © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 17 Automatic creation of test plan based on Business Process Change Analyzer (BPCA) results Description New possibility to directly create a test plan from a change document or request for change. The basis for the automatic creation is a BPCA analysis which was performed in advance. The test plan will only include affected the business processes calculated by BPCA . Details • Accessible via the Test Management assignment block • New function “Add New Test Plan from BPCA Result” Benefits • Closer integration between Change Request Management and Test Management • Higher degree of automation © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 18 Automatic status shift at the conclusion of a successful test case Description Automatic status shift of the related change document or request for change when the assigned test cases are set to “OK” and the “test ended” flag was set. Details • Works for Test Cases that relate to Test Packages of the assigned Test Plan. • New action will asynchronously set the status from “to be tested” to “successfully tested” automatically. Benefits • Closer integration between Change Request Management and Test Management • Higher degree of automation © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 19 New button to access “Execution Document Overview” Description Navigate to the “Execution Document Overview” of your test plan. You can now view all test notes and test result documents related to the executed test plan corresponding to the test package and it’s assigned testers. Details • Accessible via the Test Management assignment block • New button “Execution Document Overview” Benefits • Closer integration between Change Request Management and Test Management • Easier handling © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 20 Retrofit SAP Note Assistant integration Description The additional function “Implement SAP Note” finds SAP Notes relevant to the selected retrofit entry and opens the Note Assistant (transaction SNOTE) to implement them. Details • Retrofit enhancement & integration • New button “Implement SAP Note” Benefits • Semi-automatic retrofit scenario to reimplement SAP Notes • Easier handling © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 21 Git-enabled CTS (gCTS) Quality Gate Management Change Request Management SAP Transport Management & SAP Cloud Platform Transport Management Service git-enabled Change and Transport System (gCTS)* © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 22 gCTS integration with SAP Solution Manager Description • Enable gCTS on Managed Systems • Configure your system landscape • Select repository in Change Document in Change Request or Quality Gate Management Benefits • Get ready to run DevOps processes with ABAP • Central E2E Control & transparency over change execution • Similar look and feel like CTS/CTS+, cTMS integration • Governance and auditability © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 23 gCTS integration with SAP Solution Manager • Change Request or Quality Gate Management will track within Change Documents transports, tasks and commits and will trigger the deployments of commits into the target ABAP system © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 24 Application Operation SPS 12 delta features Application Operation innovations Overview of new functions System Monitoring • New option for default template assignment Technical Administration • New option to schedule ad hoc Work Mode • Where-used and replace functionality for recipient lists and recipients in Central Notification Management • UI enhancements for mass operations in Task Management • Service Availability innovations: • Closure of outages for grey alerts and Work Mode changes • Originating alert details visible in the Details of Outage screen • Exclude alerts that should not contribute to SAM outages Managed System configuration • Creation of new optional user for EWA data collection in managed ABAP systems © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 26 System Monitoring innovations New option for default template assignment Description New option for default template assignment. Details • If a monitoring object needs to be excluded from system monitoring, the option Do not assign template can be selected either as a custom-defined default template or directly during monitoring setup Benefits • Avoid (unnecessary) template assignments for the managed objects where system monitoring is not expected © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 27 IT Calendar & Work Mode Management innovations New option to schedule ad hoc Work Mode Description You can use a new simplified UI to schedule ad-hoc planned downtimes. Details • Faster and simpler compared to the normal expert scheduling • Less input required Benefits • Reduced effort for scheduling planned downtime just before bringing the system down © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 28 Central Notification Management innovations Where-used and replace functionality for recipient lists and recipients Description Enable users to search for the usage of recipient and recipient lists in Monitoring and Alerting configuration and auto-notification settings. Details • New UI allows users to search for templates, alerts and auto-notification settings using a recipient of a recipient list • You can also replace the recipients or a recipient list for auto-notification settings Benefits • Easier find out where recipient is used, e.g. when he has left the organization, or it becomes invalid and needs to be replaced © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 29 Task Management innovation - UI Enhancements for Mass Operations Description UI enhancements enable multi-selection of tasks to change status or assignment. Details • User can select multiple tasks and change status or perform processor assignment. • New field shows ‘Last Changed By’ in the Task Inbox table Benefits • Mass operations are now available for tasks © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 30 Service Availability Management innovations Closure of outages for grey alerts and Work Mode changes Description Alert closure due to status change to ‘Grey’ or Work Mode changes are also considered while creating outages. Details • Up to now, only alert status change to ‘Green’ was considered as the end of the outage • With SPS12, even workmode change, System Monitoring reconfiguration, or ‘Grey’ status change will be considered as the end of outage Benefits • Avoiding long running outages due to grey alerts or reconfiguration © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 31 Service Availability Management innovations Originating alert details visible in the Details of Outage screen Description From the Details of Outage screen, you can see detailed information about the originating alert. Details • New tab shows the originating alert details and its current status • You can navigate directly to the originating alert Benefits • Easier troubleshooting of the outage creation issues © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 32 Service Availability Management innovations Exclude alerts that should not contribute to SAM outages Description New possibility to exclude availability alerts for outage calculations. Details • Enables customers to decide which availability alert should not contribute to outage • Customers can maintain the availability alert which should not be considered for outage creation directly in table SAM_BL_ALRT_CONF Benefits • Reduce irrelevant outages being created from multiple availability alerts © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 33 Managed System Configuration New optional user for EWA data collection in managed ABAP systems Description New optional possibility to create user SM_SDCCN during Managed System Configuration. Details • User SM_SDCCN with minimum authorization can be created/updated during MSC • Old system configuration remains valid – there is no need for mass reconfiguration • Activity “Activate Services” is no longer mandatory to allow manual scheduling with higher security as outlined in SAP Note 763561 Benefits • More secure system operation • Central user managed for the EWA data collection user just like other users in managed systems © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 34 Support for cloud and hybrid products Availability overview System Management Not planned Available Not planned Not planned Not planned Not planned Not planned Not planned Not planned Not planned Exception Management Available Available Available Available Available Available Available Available Available Available Integration Monitoring Available Available Available Available Available Available Available Available Available Available User Experience Monitoring Available Available Available Available Available Available Available Available Available Available End-to-End Trace Analysis Not planned Available Not Planned Not Planned Not Planned Not Planned Not Planned Not Planned Not Planned Not Planned Data Consistency Management Available Not planned Not Planned Available Available Not Planned Available Not Planned Not Planned Available Job Management Available Not Planned Not Planned Not Planned Not Planned Not Planned Not Planned Not Planned Not Planned Available Business Process KPIs Not Planned Not Planned Not Planned Available Not Planned Not Planned Available Available Not Planned Not Planned Availability Overview: Public Cloud Operations Details on availability and restrictions are documented on the SAP Solution Manager 7.2 expert portal page © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice. 35 Business Process Operations SPS 12 delta features Business Process Analytics integration with management UIs Description Seamless integration of all management applications to detailed root cause analysis. Details It is now possible to navigate from the BPOps dashboards, the progress management board and the dependency diagrams into the SAP UI5-based Business Process Analytics. Benefits • Reduced effort of analyzing the big picture down to the individual document • Improved performance due to new UI technology © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 37 Business Process Analytics improvement Description Different aspects in one view for automation rate key figures as well as bug fixes. Details For automation rate key figures it is now possible to analyze them by rate as well as an overview of throughput volume and the corresponding monetary amount. All of these aspects can be used with filters. Benefits • Faster root cause analysis and complete view for automation rate key figures. • Robust app for the future © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 38 Job Monitoring and Job Management Overview of main new functions • Usage of enhanced SMSE 7.2 APIs to read from external schedulers • Remote update of Job Definition Name for SAP BPA by Redwood • No implicit creation of Job Documentation for ABAP Job Monitoring • Job Documentation Mass Maintenance: FILL_CUSTOM_XBP_PARAMETERS © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 39 Job Monitoring and Job Management Usage of Enhanced SMSE 7.2 APIs to Read from External Schedulers Description SAP Solution Manager can now fetch data from SAP BPA and SM-SE 7.2 certified schedulers via API. SAP Solution Manager (Central Job Overview and SMSE Job Monitoring) Details For monitoring of Job Type SMSE and Central Job Overview, the job data can be read via API instead of direct database connection. Downport via SAP Notes 2928580 and 2908052 is available. Benefits • SMSE job monitoring and Central Job Overview is not limited to SAP BPA by Redwood anymore • No need to define a secondary database connection © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC Ext. Job Scheduler Ext. Job Scheduler SAP BPA by Redwood SMSE 7.2 certified (e.g. Redwood or Automic Automation (UC4)) 40 Job Monitoring and Job Management Remote Update of Job Definition Name for SAP BPA by Redwood Description SAP Solution Manager can update the job definition name via standard Redwood Script. SAP Solution Manager Details • SAP BPA by Redwood offers standard scripts REDWOOD.CONTENT_GenerateProcessChain and REDWOOD.CONTENT_GenerateProcessDefinition. • Solution Manager can now not only update job definition parameters and values, but also the job definition name. Benefits • Documentation Names and Definition Names can easily be kept in sync • Seamless integration of job request management, validation, job documentation and scheduling using SAP Solution Manager © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC Ext. Job Scheduler SAP BPA by Redwood ➔ Job Definition Names are updated remotely, i.e. adjusted to the job documentation name. 41 Job Monitoring and Job Management No Implicit Creation of Job Documentation for ABAP Job Monitoring Description SAP Solution Manager When you create a job monitoring object for an ABAP job from a technical scenario, no job document is created implicitly anymore. Details • When Job Management is implemented, job documents can be created with report AC_JSM_JOBDOC_MASS_MAINTENANCE. • With the option “Create Monitoring” existing monitoring for the documented ABAP job is detected and linked to the documentation. Benefits • No redundant job documents for jobs that run in several systems • No unnecessary job documentation © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 42 Job Monitoring and Job Management Job Documentation Mass Maintenance: FILL_CUSTOM_XBP_PARAMETERS Description SAP Solution Manager The job documentation mass maintenance report helps you to create your job documentation. Now you can enrich your ABAP job documentation easily with all scheduling details. Details AC_JSM_JOBDOC_MASS_MAINTENANCE report offers FILL_CUSTOM_XBP_PARAMETERS with a default implementation to read for ABAP job scheduling details. Other enhancement spots offer you to enrich your job documentation. SAP Managed ABAP System Benefits You can build a documentation for your scheduled ABAP jobs that is identical to actual scheduling (and then take over control from SAP Solution Manager, if you want) © 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC 43 Key Links and Product Roadmap Want to learn more? • Visit the SAP Solution Manager home page: • Visit the ALM Manager Media Center for presentations and click-through demos. • Check out the free, public Internet demo system (includes Focused Build and Focused Insights) • Review What's New in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP12 - SAP Help Portal Review the details about Focused Build and Focused Insights SP07 - SAP Help Portal Attend the upcoming “What’s New” events: • • ✓ What’s New with Focused Build SP07 - Feb 10th 2021 2:30 PM CET / 8:30 AM EST US (Register) ✓ What’s New with Focused Insights SP07 - Feb 11th 2021 2:30 PM CET / 8:30 AM EST US (Register) • • • • Take advantage of SAP Learning Journeys: ✓ SAP Solution Manager 7.2 ✓ Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager ✓ Focused Insights for SAP Solution Manager Take the openSAP courses “SAP Solution Manager for SAP S/4HANA Implementation in a Nutshell” and “Agile Project Delivery with Focused Build for SAP Solution Manager.” View the new series of whitepapers on managing hybrid solutions. 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