S/4HANA System Conversion Pre-check Customer Code Check against Simplifications
Hi everyone, in this blog I’m going to talk about some of the basic configurations of Customer Code Check (or Customer Code Migration) when doing a S/4HANA System Conversion.
Foreword
The following picture shows the procedure and landscape involved in the task.
Basically, you’ll need an AS ABAP NetWeaver 7.5 system as shown in the above picture (the evaluation system doesn’t have to be a S/4HANA system, any AS ABAP NW 7.5 system will be ok), at first we thought the new Solution Manager 7.2 will do so, but unfortunately Solution Manager 7.2 was build on NetWeaver 7.4.
References
Custom Code Migration Worklist – Application Development on AS ABAP – SAP Library
Using the Custom Code Migration Worklist – Application Development on AS ABAP – SAP Library
2241080 – Custom code check content for SAP S/4HANA on-premise edition
https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2241080
How we did it
1. On ERP Source System
1.1 Implement SAP Note 2185390, follow the the Note to perform manual-activities.
1.2 Run report SYCM_DOWNLOAD_REPOSITORY_INFO
Run report SYCM_DOWNLOAD_REPOSITORY_INFO with SE38 (we’ll talk about the error “the where-used index is not up-to-date” later on), you may want to run it as a background job if you have a lot of customer developed programs.
Customer Namesapce = /0CUST/
1.3 Download the Customer Repository ZIP file
Wait until the job gets finished, then you should be able to download the ZIP file to your local computer.
2. On the Evaluation System (NW 7.5 System)
2.1 Upload the Customer Repository ZIP file
Upload the Customer Repository zip file into the evaluate system by execute program SYCM_UPLOAD_REPOSITORY_INFO with SE38, give it a extraction name.
2.2 Import the SMB
Download the latest patch of Simplification Database Content from SAP launchpad support one app by doing a quick search CCMSIDB.
Import the downloaded simplification database zip file into evaluate system through report SYCM_UPLOAD_SIMPLIFIC_INFO with SE38.
2.3 Analyze the Impact of the Simplification
Launch the Custom Code Migration Worklist by using transaction SYCM, fill the SAP System ID and Extraction Name and click on execute.
The results will give you a glance of the customer objects affected by the simplifications
You can find more information like SAP Object Name, Application Component, most importantly the Simplification Category and relevant SAP Note
As mentioned in the SAP document, the follow paragraph gives an overview of the Simplification Category
Simplification Category: Represents the category of the simplification item
The following categories are provided:
- Usage of functionality not supported anymore: Usages of this SAP object must be removed from the custom code.
- Usage of functionality not recommended anymore: SAP recommends to remove usages of this SAP object from the custom code.
- Syntactically incompatible change: Custom code needs to be adapted as described in the related SAP Note.
- Semantically incompatible change : Custom code needs to be adapted to the new semantics as described in the related SAP Note.
- Change with performance impact: Usages of this SAP object might have impact on your custom code.
3. Error “the where-used index is not up-to-date” in the ERP Source System
To solve this problem, we can perform the following activities in the ERP system:
1. Run report SAPRSEUJ with SE38
2. Wait until the job EU_INIT gets finished, then run the following reports with SE38 as background job:
SAPRSEUB
SAPRSEUC
For more information about how to solve this problem, please check the following SAP Notes:
2234970 – Job EU_INIT
18023 – Jobs EU_INIT, EU_REORG, EU_PUT
That’s all, I hope this will help you and I’m willing to receive your feedback!
Regards,
Michael
Very helpfull, thanks Michael!
Thank you Joachim, I hope you enjoyed it! Have a nice day!
Hello Michael,
Thanks for the blog, SAP Note 2185390 seems to be applicable for NW 700 and above.
Read few blogs and SAP supports S/4 HANA migration from 4.6c also. How to perform custom code analysis for SAP R/3 4.6C , any specific note for this. Appreciate your help on this.
Thanks
Madhu
Hi Madhu,
You're right, SAP supports system conversion from 4.6c to S/4HANA, but you do have to perform an system upgrade to upgrade your source system to ERP 6.0 first, I think you'll be able to perform the customer code analysis once your system finished the upgrade process.
Unfortunately, I can't find the documents or notes for R/3 4.6c, and we don't have the test environment here, but I can give you some information about the system upgrade to ERP 6.0.
For upgrade to ERP 6.0, you can check the SAP documents on system upgrade with software update manager, for example NW 7.0, you can check the following link, looking for the Upgrade Master Guide as sell as Upgrade and Update Guides (lots notes in these documents)
SAP NetWeaver 7.0 – SAP Help Portal Page
Regards,
Michael
Hello Michael,
Thank you for the reponding back and the inputs. I have already gone through the few blogs and notes wherein it says that 4.6c has to be upgraded to EHP7 as S/4 HANA supports Unicode. What i am really looking right now is custom code analysis for 4.6c before i go for upgrade then unicode conversion and making it ready for S/4 HANA migration.
Regards
Madhu
Hi Madhu,
You're right S/4HANA only supports unicode, as note 2269871 mentioned, SUM support S/4 system conversion start releases from SAP ERP 6.0 including enhancement packages up to 7, means from EHP 0 to EHP 7 are well supported.
I think the system upgrade and unicode conversion could be done just in one step with the new SUM software update manager, the actual S/4 system conversion also use this tool, you do need a license to generate and download the system conversion files for S/4.
Michael
Hello Madhu,
Michael Hu describes it correctly a move from R/3 4.6c is possible in a two-step approach. You first have to upgrade your systenm to SAP ERP 6.0 and in a second step you can do a system conversion to SAP S/4HANA. See aswell:
SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition - Transition Paths
Accordingly our content related to the S/4 System Conversion is focused on SAP ERP 6.0, because that is the start release for a system conversion to S/4HANA 1511.
Kind Regards,
Frank
Hello Frank,
Thank for the reply, what i am looking at is custom code analysis for 4.6c system before i go for upgrade and unicode conversion. Do i need to spend additional license cost here for upgrade , unicode conversion to ECC 6.0 EHP7 and again license cost for S/4 HANA 1511.
Regards
Madhu
Hi Madhu,
do not know about the license cost - what I can say is that S/4HANA is a different product than SAP ERP and you need a separate S/4HANA license.
The logic to extract custom code from source system is available for systems based on SAP Basis 700 (see the note 2185390 - https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/0002185390)
At the end the custom code part is just one corner stone of a project to go from 4.6c to S/4HANA. As far as I know the starndard maintenance window for 4.6c ended in 2010. In the meantime (even in SAP ERP6.0) a lot of new business processes are established which are supported by the SAP software. I would recommend to start to identify the custom code usage (based on experience just ~50% of existing custom code is used at all) and the opportunities to go back to standard (S/4HANA).
Kind Reagrds,
Frank
I am getting where-used index not up to date error even though SAPRSEUB, SAPRSEUC and SAPRSEUJ, EU_INIT are all run successfully. Any idea? What exactly SYCM_DOWNLOAD_REPOSITORY_INFO checks to see if index is up to date or not?