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1.1. Impact & Reference Analysis
Availability: Solution Manager 7.10 (SP09)
The Impact & Reference Analysis tool automatically identifies links between technical objects (tables) in the
context of Data Volume Management and business process information (processes, steps, transactions,
reports...). Thus allowing you to determine the areas that could be impacted if you undertake a project to
apply DVM measures. This is very useful when it comes to drawing up a test plan and for discussions with
the impacted user departments. It helps to break-down resistance to the DVM topics if the affected users
know the potential areas to be impacted and have a clear test plan to verify functionality following the
implementation.
1.1.1.
Impact & Reference analysis – create New Run
To create a new analysis you have two options:
1) New Analysis – takes you through the GUI based procedure.
2) New Analysis Expert Mode – opens a Guided Procedure for you to follow.
In this document we will describe the second option. Click New Analysis Expert
Mode
. This opens a new window with a Guided Procedure to take you through the
setup process. Use the navigation buttons
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In the first step you need to select the system to be included in the analysis.
Click Edit
to switch to the edit mode and make your selections.
Multiple system selection is not possible.
Once you select a system the system checks checks the validity of multiple input options and returns a result
list in the lowr part of the screen. You can select the options you want to target from this list.
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Click Next
1.1.2.
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Impact & Reference analysis – Project Selection
The Project Selection step allows you to select from one of the projects that use the system being analyzed.
You can see details such as the coverage ratio, the number of steps involved and the number of transactions
or reports impacted.
Select a project and Click Next
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1.1.3.
Impact & Reference analysis – Analysis
Configuration
In the configuration step you determine the objects to be included in the analysis. There are different use
cases to choose from and a range of configuration options (such as Tables, Document Type, Archiving
Objects, Reports & Transactions) for selecting the objects you want analyzed.
In this example we chose to use a Manual Input option then we can click on any of the input options such as
Tables and enter the tables to be analyzed.
Click Tables
.
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You can then click on any of the other options (Document type, Archiving Objects etc.,) and input more
objects. When all object are input you need to select them (using the standard selection features i.e. mouse
click or the select all feature at the top left corner of the table). Once you have made you selections click on
the Copy for Analysis
button to include the object in the analysis run.
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You can repeat this process for any or all of the other input options i.e. Document types, Archiving Objects
etc.,
Once you do this notice how the column titles change in the selection table.
Initially it reverts to “Candidate Objects” but…
once you select the Option (ARCHIVING ACTIVITY (LAST YEAR)) it changes to Archiving Object.
Having finalized your selections you should see a table of Objects for analysis on the right- hand side of the
screen.
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To schedule the analysis run click Next
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Impact & Reference analysis – Run Analysis
Fill in the parameters for scheduling the analysis at a time and date that fits with your requirements.
Hint: If you have numerous analysis running or scheduled to run in your system (and particularly if the
analysis are scheduled by different users) it is useful to consider a naming convention to help identify the
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individual analyses.
Click Start
to execute the analysis.
1.1.5.
Impact & Reference Analyzer – Working with the
results
When you finish scheduling the analyses and return to the overview screen, the analysis is in an initial
status.
Once your analysis has finished you will be able to select it and view the results as in this example.
You simply need to select an entry on the left hand side (Under Projects) and click on Display All
Objects
to view the results in the table on the right side.
From here you also have the option to create a Test Plan that can be used by the impact departments to
verify the results of any planned DVM measures on their business processes, reports, tables etc.,
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Clicking on the Test Plan
button produces a pop-up window where you can fill in the plan details.
This in turn takes you to another series of steps dealing with the test plan in detail that are not covered in this
document.
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