Getting Started with the ABAP Test Cockpit for QMs and Admins
Administrators: Set Up, Running Checks
How do I set up the ABAP Test Cockpit for quality checking?
Here in brief is what you need to do to set up the ABAP Test Cockpit for central quality checking. You can find detailed instructions in the ATC documentation at the SAP Help Portal (help.sap.com) and also online in transaction ATC.
- Pick out an ABAP system to be the ATC master system, where you run central ATC checks and manage exemption requests. This is usually your transport consolidation or test/quality system.
- Set up ATC RFC destinations between the ATC master system and the development systems that transport code to the master system. SAP recommends using trusted RFC connections – a destination to each development system at the master system, and a destination to the master system at each development system. If you have these destinations already, then you can re-use them.
- Set up ATC users (or give existing users ATC authorizations). At the master system, you will need:
– ATC administrators, who have a derivative of role SAP_SATC_ADMIN.
– ATC QMs, who have a derivative of role SAP_SATC_QE.
– ATC developer-users with either S_DEVELOP, ACTVT 02 or 03 or, if developers should not have the right to change code on the master system, then a derivative of role SAP_SATC_XMPT_APPLICANT.
At each development system, you’ll need the same set of users. Developer users won’t need the SAP_SATC_XMPT_APPLICANT role, since they have an authorization for S_DEVELOP with AKTVT 02 and 03. - Register your name spaces (e.g. /MY_COMPANY/) for the ATC master system. To do this, start ABAP program SATC_AC_INIT_NAMESPACE_REG on a development system. Then follow the online instructions in the program.
- Use transaction ATC to configure the master system, as shown. You can also schedule an e-mail job (for notifications about exemptions) and schedule regular ATC central check runs. See the online help for more information.
- Now configure your development systems. Log on to one of the development systems. Start transaction ATC and configure the system as shown.
- On the ATC Change Settings screen, choose Transfer data from the tool bar. SAP recommends setting up the ATC on one development system, and then replicating the configuration to the other development systems that have the same ATC master system. This is more efficient than logging on to each system in turn to do the configuration.
For each satellite system (development system), enter the RFC destination of the system and transfer Local Priorities and Configuration Data to the satellite system.
Achievements:
- The ATC has been set up on both the master system and development systems.
- You are running central ATC checks and distributing these as current active results to satellite development systems.
- The developers on your satellite systems can request exemptions against the active central ATC findings. The exemptions are managed on the master system, where they are persisted. There is no risk of exemptions being duplicated or lost.
How do I start a central run?
- Start transaction ATC on the ATC master system.
- Click on ATC Administration > Runs >Schedule Runs. Click on Create to schedule a new run series. Or mark an existing run series and click on Schedule to start a new run in the series.
- To create a run series, click Create and fill out the screen as suggested below:
- To schedule a check run in your series, mark the series in the Run Series: Browse Configurations screen and click Schedule. Then fill out the screen as suggested below:
- Press Execute to start the check run. The run is executed as a background job. To monitor the progress of the job, from the start screen of transaction ATC, choose ATC Administration > Runs > Monitor and Control Runs.
After the check run is done, the ATC distributes the result automatically to the RFC destinations that you specified. With the options shown in the screen shot, the check result is made the active result in the satellite systems. In this example we executed only one single ATC run. In a productive scenario you would schedule this run periodically as a background job.
How can I check the status of a check run? What should I do if a check run fails?
On the central system, start transaction ATC and choose ATC Administration > Runs > Monitor and Control Runs.
The display shows run status as running, finished, or failed. Usually, you can just restart a failed run. Check the log if want to see execution details and error findings.
How can I tell whether the results are complete?
If you see this icon in the ATC result, then at least one check could not be run or failed to run correctly and some findings[ZK3] may be missing:
Click on the button to see which checks and which objects were affected.
Here, a check module was interrupted by a runtime error. The ATC check run is not terminated by such a problem. You can find details about the error in the short dump in transaction ST22.
Error type Examination not Possible means that the check module shown in Check Title could not check the object shown in Object Name. The context menu Show Documentation for Check gives you more information. If you still have questions, contact the check author.
What do I do after a check run is finished?
- In transaction ATC, choose ATC Administration > Runs > Manage Results to select and display available results.
- Everything okay? If you did not distribute the results automatically to satellite development systems, then you can do so now.
Quality Managers: Analysis, Reporting, E-Mailing
How can I access the result of a check run?
In a satellite development system, start transaction SE80. If the ATC Results Browser is not shown in the browser selection, then choose Utilities > Settings. Mark ATC Result Browser on the Workbench (General) tab.
In the browser, the current result is marked with the lighted bulb.
Where do I review exemptions?
It’s best to review exemptions in the ATC master system, where they are maintained. Review and approve or disapprove exemptions by doing the following:
- In the ATC master system, start transaction ATC. Choose ATC Administration > Quality Governance > Exemption Browser.
- Select the exemption requests that have been assigned to you.
- In the list of exemption requests, double-click an exemption to open the details provided by the requestor, including the ATC finding that is to be exempted, the scope of the exemption, and explanation provided by the requestor.
- Enter your assessment of the requested exemption. Then choose from the following actions:
– Approve the request (grant the exemption, so that the ATC does not report findings covered by the exemption)
– Reject the request (the developer must correct the problem in order to clear the ATC finding)
– Return to applicant – send the exemption request back to the requestor, for example for additional information.
If you have set up your system to replicate exemptions automatically to satellite development system, then your work is done. If not, then you can replicate exemptions to the satellite systems so that they are visible there. One way to distribute exemptions is to choose ATC Administration > Configure ATC, and then choose Transfer Data. Enter the RFC destination of each satellite system, and be sure to switch Push or Pull Data to PUSH in the options screen. The admin should distribute exemptions regularly in any case.
Where are the statistics?
The ATC results display start with the list of findings. Turn the statistics display on by clicking Statistics View in the tool bar. The statistics display might look like this (for some temporary objects):
You can download statistics by selecting Print Preview (from the Print button options). Print Preview displays a list from which you can download.
How can I see the changes in findings after a re-check?
A cool new feature of the ATC results display is the delta display, which shows you what has changed after you have re-checked one or more findings in the ATC Browser in the developer transactions (SE80, SE24, SE38…).
Cleared findings are shown green, unchanged findings are yellow, new findings are red (remember, a re-check applies the relevant check to the entire object, not just the individual findings).
How about navigating back and forth in the results?
Have you done a lot of sorting and filtering in the results? Want to go back to earlier result?
A cool new feature of the ATC is that you don’t have to redo the sorts and selects. Just open the stack navigator with Display Navigation Window.
And choose the view that you want.
Hi Christopher,
thanks for the nice blog!
I have got one additional question. Is there a simple way to schedule check runs in
the central system e.g. daily and distribute the results automatically? I could
schedule the 2 independent jobs, one to start the check run and one to
distribute the results. However, this seems a little fragile to me.
Best,
Christian
Hi Christian,
You can schedule the ATC check run with a postprocessing step to replicate the results to provided RFC connections:
(Transaction atc ->Schedule runs -> create a run series ->Mark the run series ->button "Schedule" -> in the selection screen "Postprocessing: Distribute the results to .. (RFC connection of target) - Menu: Program -> Execute in background...)
Regards
Boris
Hi Christopher,
thanks for the useful blog series about ATC.
I'm wondering about the best practice to manage a human approve confirmation to objects under review. It would be great to have a kind of worklist to support the process of manual review the quality manager performs periodically on the result of an inspection run.
Sergio
Hi Sergio,
I am not sure if I got the point but if you refer the ATC mass check results (in the quality box) and how the quality manager shall work with the results then I may add some hints:
- first specify/agree on ONE check variant (+ adjust priorities of check messages) including the checks which are relevant for your company
- Define a quality gate criteria (e.g. no priority 1 and 2 findings for your defined check variant) and comunicate this criteria to development
- define an exemption process for false positives so that developer can achieve zero priority 1 and 2 findings
- Review findings from the central ATC runs which do not obey to the quality gate criteria.
Regards
Boris
Thanks Christopher.
Your interesting tips are related to the follow up of inspection results that is the scope of CI and ATC, I know. I was looking for a way to add to the "Findings" counters an Review state set manually by the reviewer (e.g. he/she check personally the quality of the code and set her/his rating to the object as an action that is not yet linked to the approval status for the Change Request.
Probably something to much specific.
Hi Christopher,
Wonderful blog. We are trying to create a new configuration in Master system with following options:
Object Selection: By Query
Package: ZXYZ (Custom package that exists in Satellite systems)
Under "Schedule Run Series" for this configuration we have selected the option to "Set to Active Result" and "Distribute Result to" to satellite system trusted RFC destination.
Now, when this run is completed we don't see any errors being recorded however if I schedule the same within Satellite system and push results to Master system then we do see the errors getting recorded.
Are we supposed to configure and run this in individual Satellite systems instead of Master system? How would the Master System know on which Satellite system to run this "Run Series"? I am a little confused from your "How do I start a central run?" section content and not sure if I am following it correctly.
Thanks!
Hi Shrinivas,
The normal ATC setup is:
In the DEV system(s) = Satelite Systems developers use ATC during development (e.g. by running ATC from se80) and when they release a transport.(Q gate 1)
In the follow up Q/Test system (to which the transports from DEV are transported) = Master system we recommend to schedule a periodic ATC mass check run (e.g. for all your Z*, y* packages) in order to find regressions and to check the consolidated code before it is released to production.(Q gate 2)
The ATC results are replicated from Q system to the defined satelite systems (DEV) so that the devlopes can diretcly acceess the ATC mass check results in DEV systems and don't have to logon to the Q system to check the results.
Best regards
Boris
Hi Christopher,
thanks for this helpful blog.
We are about to introduce ATC and want to establish a Q-Gate-1.
As we have a lot of legacy code, the developer should be able to apply for an Exemption for "All Checks" of an Object. Is this possible? In the dynpro 0111 of programm SATC_CI_EXEMPTION_REQUEST there are only the two possibilities "This Check" and "This Check Message"
Furthermore we would like to block only errors with priority 1 during release of a transport request. On ATC-Settings one can only chose "block on any error (prio 1 and 2)".
Thank you in advance.
Werner
Hello Werner,
No, for the check dimension of exemptions you can only hide all check messages of one check but you cannot hide all checks. For the object dimension you can create exemptions on package level to e.g. switch of certain checks for a complete legacy package.
But I am not sure if I understood the use case.
For the ATC mass check runs (Q gate 2) you can just exclude the legacy objects from the object set.
For the transport check (Q gate 1) I would assume that a program which has been changed and therefore is part of the transport object list shall be checked even if it is a legacy object.
Concerning the blocking of transports: Yes, you can only choose "any error" or "Priority 1 or 2 errors". Whether this is sufficient/good enough depends on your check variant (and your custom check message priorities).
But anyway, this is a good hint from your side and I will check if we should be more flexible in this area.
Another view on this topic is the priority of the Q-gates.
If Q gate 2 is your main Q gate since this (final) gate checks all consolidated custom code and therefore finds side effects of code changes which are not found when checking only a transport ( consider a change in the signature of a function module which may influence programs which haven't been changed/transported for decades) then you may decide to use a weaker Q gate 1 ( inform on error not block).
Additionally, for emergency scenarios you may want to release a transport even if there are ATC errors.
Best regards
Boris
Hello Christopher and many thanks for that blog post!
By now, I am a little bit confused about the master - slave configuration. Is it necessary that the master system contains the code from the development system(s)?
I am thinking about following scenario:
The Solution Manager is defined as Master and maintains the global check variant, and schedules regular checks on multiple development systems. The results of those checks can be seen on the Solution Manager (as a global reporting of Code Quality) and maintain exemptions, emails etc. The SolMan itself does not have the code of that multiple dev systems.
Cheers
s.w.e.
Hello S.W.E.
the ATC-master system is the system that hosts the exemptions repository. The ATC satellite systems are the systems that consume the exemption repository.
Best practice is to have one master system per transport landscape. That means ideally the master system is one of the development, test or quality boxes along a transport route. Sucha setup will ensure that all systems contain a similar / identical source code repository. One reason behind this is that findings as well as exemptions contain weak references to the code repository only. For example the navigation into the code requires that the development object exists in the system.
Furthermore the Solution Manager system and development boxes are typically on different SAP_BASIS releases or SPs. As effect the ATC/Code Inspector features differ. Even subtle differences in documentation can lead to a significant loss in usability.
To my impression moving the ATC master system to the solution manager will result into a loss on usability for the development scenario. To my opinion the box of the Solution Manager is no candidate for the ATC master system.
Which benefits do you expect from moving the master system to the box of the solution manager?
Best Regards
Klaus
Hello Klaus,
Thanks for your answer!
By using SolMan, I would expect the benefit, that we have a central place for measuring code quality for all those different "Projects" and therefor being able to compare these and identify company-wide weaknesses or strengths (within the ABAP code) 😉 and eventually being able to identify some spots where these Projects could learn from each other (more easily than today, at least, as this may be a good base to start talking).
Of course, in that scenario, I would not expect to jump into code while being in Solman.
Cheers
s.w.e.
Hello S.W.E.
to be perfectely honest I have only a rough understanding of the SOLMan addon for ATC. So my interpretation of possibilites in SOLMan is a kind of lucky guessing.
To my guts feeling a measurement of code quality based ATC findings only is limited to statistic evaluation of bare numbers. An in-deep analysis most likely would need full access to source code and further metrics. Therefore I expect that the availability of statistical relevant information should satisfy such an use case. As consequence a copy or an aggregation of findings/results should do.
An to other hand the development process would suffer by moving the ATC master system to the SOLMAN box.
If I have to balance out things, I still would recommend to keep the master system within the transport landscape of the development box. For SOLMAN I would establish a data collection.
Best Regards
Klaus
Hello again,
in a scenario, where the Master is on QAL:
DEV -> QAL -> PRD
we would loose all ATC Settings and data, when the QAL gets frshly build out of the PRD, right? Except one would do some DB export/import stuff...
Bonjour à nouveau,
if your QAL box gets refreshed regularly it might not be the best place to play the role of the master system.
For a landscape like
DEV -> QAL (reset regularly) -> PRD
I would choose the following setup
DEV - developer check runs, transport check runs, master system
QAL - mass runs that get replicated to DEV
Au revoir
Klaus
Hello Klaus,
thanks a lot for your input! 🙂
Cheers
s.w.e.
Hi Christopher,
could you suggest how to cleanup expired results? Report SATC_AC_REORG_REPOSITORY seems fine for the goal but I'm still not able to find official documentation about it.
thank you
Sergio
Hallo Sergio,
expired results shall get deleted more or less automatically. There shall be no need to make use this report but you may schedule the report additionally to force "garbage collection" of expired results.
Best Regards
Klaus
Many thanks
Hi Chistopher,
Thanks a lot for these series. I found it extremely useful.
However I have a couple of questions:
Thanks in advance,
Peter
Hello Peter,
Results have an expiration date and an implicitly triggered garbage collection will delete them after the expiration date has been exceed. As Sergio mentioned on 1st April there is also a report SATC_AC_REORG_REPOSITORY which can be used to force garbage collection. In most cases the use of this report shall not be necessary however.
Check runs started from SExx tools expire after 10 days. Check runs started from transaction ATC offer a customizable expiry, default is 120 days.
ATC offers for mass runs /history series a "first found" information. The "first found" field can be useful to distinguish new findings from fury ones. A full delta is not available however.
Best Regards
Klaus
Hi Klaus,
Thanks a lot for your quick reply!
Somehow I totally overlooked the info about report SATC_AC_REORG_REPOSITORY. Thanks for the hint.
Now I kept my eyes open and managed to find the info also about the 120 days and the "First found" column
Filter based on first found could help to generate some kind of delta. I have to play around with it a little bit.
Best regards,
Peter
Hello everyone,
Thanks Klaus Ziegler and Boris Gebhardt for all the explanations.
I'd also like to share some questions on ATC Setup
1. Where to setup the Master System?
As already asked by S.W. E. Mar 13, 2014 11:31 AM I had the same Idea to use ONE central system as master system for our the Dev lines ( ERP, CRM, SCM )
Advantage would be to see every exemption in one single point and approve from there.
No Issues with system Refreshes.
Disadvantage: Problems with different patchlevels; no forward-navigation into the code
=> leave the MASTER in the Line
2. OK when we have a Setup like this:
EPR: DEV -> QA ( Master ) -> PRD
CRM: DEV -> QA ( Master ) -> PRD
SCM: DEV -> QA ( Master ) -> PRD
We have 3 Masters to check exemptions.
What I do not see is the advantage with the source code navigation:
I would like to implement a Q-gate before transport release on the DEV system. Such that I will never see dirty code on QA level. So if I receive exemptions there ( I already work like that ) I ALSO do not have source code navigation, due to the fact that the diry object is not yet transported.
Going back the loop, at the moment I do not see any advantage of a real master system.
Also not if I think about that landscape:
EPR: DEV -> QA ( Master ) -> PRD (hotfix)
DEV2 ->QA2 -> (projek)
In this setting I also have to do the exemptions on the DEV and DEV2 directly If I'd like to have source code navigation.
So, which way to go?
Thanks for your Input
Good evening Mr. John,
the exemption browser offers direct access to the repository of the master system, also within the satellite systems. In newer versions of the ATC the exemption browser offers the option to launch a check run on the object(s) of the exemption with the system variant in the local system. In other words you may check the dirty object in the development box based on exemption requests.
Is this option already available in your system and might it solve your requirement?
Best Regards
Klaus
Not sure if it's the correct place to ask. Sorry, if not.
In the ATC result detail I got next to Display object "Invalid Setup: connection <> is not available".
What does it mean? Or this is for the scenario, when there is remote systems?
Thanks in advance,
Peter
PS: It's in a BASIS 7.02 with SP 15 system.
Hello Peter,
this blog is getting a malenki bit out of size, I have copied and answered your question into a separate . Hope this is fine with you.
Regards
Klaus
Hi Klaus,
Thanks for moving it to a thread.
Peter
Hello Klaus,
Thank you for sharing this useful information.
I have activated ATC on the DEV system. Considering the history of our system, I would like to make sure that ATC checks only the delta change (change done as part of the current project/rfc).
I am not sure if this is possible with ATC, like to have a initial run and prepare the exemptions so that from the next run, it should only check the exemptions in the delta code.
Would request your expert comments on this.
Thanks,
RR
Check earlier comment "Klaus Ziegler Apr 4, 2014 4:59 PM (in response to Peter Inotai) ":
"ATC offers for mass runs /history series a "first found" information. The "first found" field can be useful to distinguish new findings from fury ones. A full delta is not available however."
Peter
BNSF Railways requests guidance from SAP as to the optimum System to use as an ATC ABAP Test Cockpit MASTER SYSTEM (either to use a DEV or a QAS system)? We think the optimum is to use a DEV system as the Master System, but would greatly appreciate SAP’s advice. We do refresh QAS twice a year. Also, what is the significance of registering your namespace? Many thanks! Patrick O'Leary
>Also, what is the significance of registering your namespace?
It makes sense when you work with for example add-ons and namespace like /MY_NAMESPACE1/ and /MY_NAMESPACE2/. Then you can controll them better.
If you only have z-development it's not necessary.
Peter
Thanks Peter for the clarification. I was having problems trying to fit that into the picture, also because the help in the program SATC_AC_INIT_NAMESPACE_REG without punctuation makes it hard to understand whether namespace is needed or not.
Hi.
SATC_AC_INIT_NAMESPACE_REG is a PG that exists only in ERP systems with SAP_BASIS 7.02 (= Ehp5) or higher.
How can I add / MY_NAMESPACE1 / and analyze with ATC on an ERP system with SAP_BASIS 700?
Hiroshi
How can I add / MY_NAMESPACE1 / and analyze with ATC on an ERP system with SAP_BASIS 700?
You can still define an object set in transaction SCI (eg including all packages from your namespace) and define a new run in ATC based on that object set. That should also work.
Hi,
Is there exemption approval/rejection feature for QA managers available in Eclipse ADT 2.51 for NW 7.5?
Hi Sudipta,
see the answer of Thomas here: https://blogs.sap.com/2017/02/27/remote-code-analysis-in-atc-working-with-exemptions/comment-page-1/#comment-367579
Regards,
Olga.
Do you know if there are plans to implement soon exemptions at a finding level?
I know they are only available in the Vulnerability Analysis.
Thank you.
Hi Matias,
you can create exemptions on findings level in ATC.
Regards,
Olga.
Hi Olga,
What i mean is, if for example i have several READ TABLEs without BINARY SEARCH, but i need to exempt only one of them as far as i know this is not possible, since the exemption only applies at message or check message level.
At least thats what i see on the SAP we are using.
Any advice?
Thank you.
Hi Matias,
yes, you can do it starting with ATC in AS ABAP 7.51 release.
Best regards,
Olga.
Does ATC work if we are running ChaRM also?
Hi Matthew,
yes, you can see ATC (incl. CVA) check results in ChaRM, ATC is integrated into ChaRM, locally, in the same system. See also the corresponding answer in the Remote Analysis in ATC - FAQ.
The integration of ATC remote checks in ChaRM is not supported yet, but will be delivered soon.
Best Regards,
Olga.
Great!
Hello Olga,
In order to distribute results from ATC Central System via option Schedule Runs->In post processing screen->Distribute results->, we found that the option is enabled only for Local check and not central ATC check system.
Can you please clarify how to distribute result from ATC central system to local system.
Also we don't find Replicate option in ATC Manage Results, after having role SAP_SATC_ADMIN.
Thanks!!
Siji
Hello Siji,
if you use central ATC system with remote ATC scenario this is not yet possible.
For compatibility reasons, ATC results can not be transferred from the central ATC system to connected systems. Therefore, the replication function does not currently exist in the central ATC system.
Regards,
Olga.
Hello Olga,
Thank you for your response.
Do we have any option through which we can see the results in satellite system after ATC check run in Master system. Can we achieve this?
Thanks!!
Siji
Hi Siji,
unfortunately not (yet). You can view the ATC results only on central ATC check system.
Regards,
Olga.
Hello Olga,
Thanks for your reply. I would like to know in which scenarios can we distribute results as mentioned in this blog -
"After the check run is done, the ATC distributes the result automatically to the RFC destinations that you specified.With the options shown in the screen shot, the check result is made the active result in the satellite systems."
This talks about receiving the results in the satellite systems from the central system, Can you please clarify this point.
Thanks!!
Siji
Hi Siji,
as written above: within central ATC quality checking with ATC central system and satelite systems, but not within the remote ATC scenario. See SAP help documentation about ATC for more details.
Regards,
Olga.
Hi.
SATC_AC_INIT_NAMESPACE_REG is a PG that exists only in ERP systems with SAP_BASIS 7.02 (= Ehp5) or higher.
How can I add / MY_NAMESPACE1 / and analyze with Remote ATC(NW7.52) on an ERP system with SAP_BASIS 700?
Hiroshi
Hi Hiroshi,
in older systems (< SAP NetWeaver 7.02 SP12) you cannot register namespaces. But besides Y* and Z* it is also possible to check the namespaces which are defined with the role Producer.
Regards,
Olga.
Hi Olga.
I have confirmed that the target / Name_Space / is registered with'P'in SE03 on my system.
However, it was not included in the ATC analysis results.....
Can this be resolved without registering the incident on the SAP Support Portal?
Regards,
Hiroshi
Hi Hiroshi,
if it is registered with 'P' but still not scanned by ATC, please open the incident.
Regards,
Olga.
Hi Olga.
I understand.
Thank you for your support.
I will feed back the answers from the SAP Support Portal here in the future.
Best regards,
Hiroshi
Hi Olga.
I found the cause!.
The phenomenon was because there was a difference between the development machine and the production machine.
The development license was not applied to the production SE03, but it was applied to the development SE03....
Best regards,
Hiroshi
Hi Hiroshi,
great! Thanks for the notification.
Best regards,
Olga.
Hi Olga,
Would you know the system requirements for the scenario where ATC runs directly on the managed system please?
Best Regards,
Luiza
Hi Luiza,
if you run ATC locally on the development system you don't need to fulfill any special system requirements.
Regards,
Olga.
Hi Olga,
we have setup Local ATC check for CVA and have approved exemptions. Now we successfully have setup central ATC check and want to transfer the approved exemptions from the development system to the central system. The transfer fails with the message “Master System does not accept exemptions”. Is it possible to do this? How?
Central system is SAP_BASIS 752 SP7, Dev system is SAP_BASIS 750 SP17
Best regards,
Darrel
Hi Darrel,
it is not possible to transfer approved ATC exemptions from the developement to the central system.
Best regards,
Olga.
Hi Olga Dolinskaja, ,
I'm getting the same message when trying to migrate exemptions between two separate dev systems. Background, is we finished local ATC fixes in Dev SYS1, and now they're created a new Dev SYS2, with the same release level SAP_BASIS 755 0002. All the objects are the same between SYS1 and SYS2, and we imported the Transports from SYS1 to SYS2.
ATC exemptions are allowed in both systems. But I'm not able to do Exemption replication as it shows this message "Master System does not accept exemptions". But in this case the master systems are the local systems themselves.
Any idea how his can be done?
Hi Mithun,
it is possible (with restrictions) to transfer exemptions to another system. There is this SAP note:
3045712 - ATC: Moving ATC Exemptions to Another System
Kind Regards,
Olga.
Dear Olga Dolinskaja,
thanks for the great blog,
could you tell, or point to relevant guide on how to configure ATC HUB for solution manager ?
does checked satellite system NEEDS to connect back to central ATC system ?
best regards,
Peter
Hi Peter,
please take a look at the SAP Help documentation https://help.sap.com/viewer/dfb02462c453431eaf249aad96f004f8/7.2.13/en-US/b145835378446957e10000000a44538d.html (under ATC Hub System).
If you set up ATC central hub in your landscape, then you connect your satellite systems to this ATC hub and connect ATC Hub to the Solution Manager.
Best Regards,
Olga.
Thank you for your reply,
I'll try then to connect my sattelite (checked system) to the central check system (hub)
as for your link, I knew it from your previous answers. But it doesn't describe neccesary steps for my version of solution manager (even if I check the proper version in the guide, the steps are still the same, for the old version of solution manager). They describe for example step 5.2
while in Solution Manager 7.2 SP11 there are only 3 steps :
I don't know where I should look to set my system X as a ATC HUB system .
Best regards
Peter
Hi Piotr,
To extract the ATC data from your central ATC Hub into the Solution Manager you need to set up the ATC extractor in CCLM setup for your ATC Hub system. You do this in the step 3 "Set up Custom Code Management" (the one from your screenshot) by marking the SID of your Hub system and and then pressing Activate Selected-->Expert Activation. In the new window you can then select and activate the quality extractor. After the activation the ATC extractor will extract the data from the Hub system. In addition it is important that also the scanned systems are set up in CCLM (at least the object extractor needs to be active).
Best regards,
Fabian
Hello Fabian,
thank you very much, it did help ! 🙂 Do I have to activate the quality collector as well ? (I did, just curious if it's needed).
Do you have some link to CCLM guide / sap note that's up to date ?
Thank you again for your help.
Hi Olga,
I want to do a regression test on a QA system. I was wondering, can I use the check variant in the QA system from the dev system or vice versa?
Thanks in advance
Hi Mehmet,
in your dev system you can download the ATC configuration settings defined in the ATC QA system. As a result, developers can run the same ATC checks locally as the QM does in QA system.
Kind Regards,
Olga.
Hi Olga,
Actually, I was imagine of using the check variant in QA system from dev system (or vice versa) via RFC as in Remote Code Analysis. So that when there was a change in the check variant, the other system would automatically work according to this change. As far as I understand from what you said, that's not possible, is it?
Best Regards
Mehmet
Hi Mehmet,
if you use ATC in remote code analysis setup (central ATC hub + dev systems), then you use the central ATC check variant (remotely via RFC) in your dev systems. The check variant is then maintained centrally on the ATC hub. In master/satellite scenario it works as I described above. You cannot use the check variant from the dev system on the central ATC hub (or master system). It is also not appropriate from the ATC concepts perspective.
Kind Regards,
Olga.
Hello Olga,
We have successfully Implemented ATC in out landscape. We are able to generate central results in our ATC System (Basis Version 752 SP08). Is there any way we can replicate the results back to satellite system. As per SAP Note 2705973, the replication button is unavailable with Basis version 752. Is there any workaround for this ?.
Regards
Kavita Mane
Hi Kavita,
in the ATC remote scenario with central ATC check system the central ATC results will not be replicated. You can access them from the development system, see the blog https://blogs.sap.com/2019/11/11/remote-code-analysis-in-atc-browse-central-atc-result-in-developer-systems/
Kind Regards,
Olga.
Hi Olga,
I have been working on master( qa )/satellite( dev ) scenario. I would like to send an approver mail when developers requested an exemption. When atc runs on the qa system, I can see the results on dev system. Once I requested an exemption on the dev system, the approver mail process is not working. I maintained approvers on the qa system and also maintain approvers tab can be seen on the dev system. Atc basic settings are completed successfully.
When I debugged on the dev system, I realize that there is no data on ‘SATC_CI_CUSTOM’ table. Therefore sending mail process is not working.
When I choose ‘Subscribe for Approver Notifications->send notifications for new exemptions tab then the record has been made in the table of ‘SATC_CI_CUSTOM’ on the qa system.
Master
There has been an error while I try to do the same process on the dev system.
Satellite
How do I map or transfer this data from qa system to dev system ?
Best Regards,
Hi Eren,
approvers must be maintained on the quality system as part of the quality governance process, not on the development system.
Kind regards,
Olga.
Hi Olga,
I actually defined the approvers on the quality system and see the approvers on the dev system.
Dev system
I configured schedule e-mail job settings below.
Once I requested an exemption on the dev system, I can choose the approver but mail process is not working.
How can I solve this problem ?
Best regards,
Eren.
Hi Eren,
where have you configured the "Schedule E-Mail Notifications for Exemptions"? It must be configured on the quality system, not on the dev system.
Kind Regards,
Olga.
Hi Olga,
it exists same configuration on the qa system like below.
Kind regards,
Eren.
Hi Eren,
please consider that only exemption approvers who have subscribed (with their user) for approver notifications are enabled to receive automatic notifications. If master admin maintains the e-mail for an approver, it will not work.
Kind Regards,
Olga.
Hello Olga,
We have configured ATC as local check on System with Basis version 750 SP21. We have also configured Transport tool settings so that ATC check will be done on release of transport. We have done Se03 global customizing settings and done user specific settings as well. The ATC is working when we are releasing the TR manually but its not working when TR is getting released with Revtrac.
Please find attched SE03 and user setting screen for your reference.
Could you please suggest if we missed on anything and how get the ATC working when the TR is released via Revtrac.
Regards
Kavita
Hi Kavita,
please post this question to the Q&A section of the SAP community. Maybe there are any Rev Trac users there, who can help you. If Rev Trac uses the SAP CTS correctly, then the ATC check would also have to run when the transport released. Apparently that is not the case.
Kind regards,
Olga.
Thanks Olga for your response.
We are suspecting the issue is with the test program where no critical checks are done. Would you be able to help us on how to set conditions in ABAP program which will trigger P1 check with ATC.
Hello Kavita,
what do you mean with P1 check?
Kind Regards,
Olga.
Priority 1 ATC check in the ATC results.
In the SCI transaction under menu Code Inspector -> Management Of -> Message Priorities you can see the priorities of the available ATC checks and can for example set up your own check variant, which contains only Priority 1 ATC checks.
Thanks Olga. I could see the lis of checks but dont see the defalut priority for them. Please find attachment for your reference.
Please go back to the main menu of the transaction SCI and follow my description
Its showing as below:
You should see other columns as well:
Thanks alot olga...I got it now 🙂
Hello Olga,
We are able to get the ATC checks with release of TR when we disable the code Inspector as test driver. Ideally ATC should work with Code Inspecor enabled. Do you have any feeback on this.
Regards
Kavita
Hi Kavita,
this is correct: you can use either ATC or Code Inspector at transport release. ATC is the successor of the Code Inspector.
Regards,
Olga.
Thanks alot Olga for confirmation!.
Dear Olga,
When transferring my custom check classes to our new ATC Hub one question occured that I have never solved. How to find out whether objects were genterated and as a consequence influencing object name options restricted. I tried to filter out via information in tables (related to object type) seoclass, dd02L amongst others. This is in particular important as we want to depend task/ transport release automatically on a ATC check without errors.
Thanks in advance for any information.
Kind regards, Norbert
Hi Norbert,
could you please open a ticket to the BC-DWB-TOO-ATF component regarding this question? It is We can efficiently support you only if we know the technical details regarding your check infrastructure and your custom check.
Thanks and kind Regards,
Olga.
Dear Olga,
thanks a lot, I have created 764620 / 2022 ATC Check - please route to BC-DWB-TOO-ATF to which I added a document with details.
Looking forward to hear from you.
Thanks and kind regards,
Norbert