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SAP Readiness Check 2.0 for SAP S/4HANA – FAQ & What’s New in Releases

Main SAP Readiness Check landing pages: http://www.sap.com/readinesscheck / SAP Note 2913617 

This blog post series provides:

  1. What’s New in Releases
    July and August released features are published in this blog post below
    – September and end of August released features are published in:
    SAP Readiness Check 2.0 for SAP S/4HANA – What’s New in Releases 20.09.2019 and 29.08.2019
    Follow the tag “SAP Readiness Check”
    or my profile and turn on your notifications to stay up to date on any new features that we are releasing for SAP Readiness Check 2.0
  2. Frequently Asked Questions
    If you don’t find an answer to your question here, please add as comment, so we can include them into the following blog post of this series

1. What’s New in Releases

Released

  • Main new features of SAP Readiness Check 2.0 (live since May 2019): SAP S/4HANA: How ready are you?
  • What’s New in 01.08 Release
    • Solve all known issues related to add-on & business function. The “Refresh” button works.
  • What’s New in 11.07.2019 Release
    • Session timeout implemented. A window pops up to refresh the page before the session expired (15 min.)
    • Link in Simplification Item title to navigate to Simplification Item catalog for additional information
    • Simplification Item relevance criteria is presented as tooltip if mouse over yellow box
    • Simplification Items are now grouped by LoB (Line of Business) instead of application area
    • New tile: SAP Innovative Business Solutions

We are working on…

2. Frequently Asked Questions

#1 Can I generate a results document as MS Word from SAP Readiness Check 2.0?

SAP Readiness Check 1.0 supports the word document generation so that you can download your results to work offline and share your results with consultants from SAP and partners.
Based on your feedback, we will support this option for SAP Readiness Check 2.0 in future: You will be able to download a MS Word results document together with all SAP Readiness Check list results (e.g. Simplification Items, Custom Code, BW extractors, Fiori apps..) as MS Excel in one zip-file.
It is planned to release this feature with SAP S/4HANA 1909 (middle of Sept).

#2 IDoc – why are the blocklisted IDocs always 0?

As of today, for all analyses, the backlisted IDoc number is always 0. The reasons are:

1. customer specific caller programs (“wrappers”) will not be part of the standard SAP S/4HANA backlist and will not be evaluated

2. Only the caller program itself will be evaluated but not the coding used inside

We are currently checking internally how to improve this data.

Sometimes the total number of IDoc is very big.
Reason: all customized IDocs w/o runtime data and all customized IDocs with runtime data are countered. This is done for both directions, Outbound and Inbound

Refer to this blog for further information and follow-up recommendations:
SAP Readiness Check 2.0 – Details about the topic of Integration

#3 When can we run SAP Readiness Check for the next SAP S/4HANA release?

Usually around August / September many customers ask when SAP Readiness Check will support the next SAP S/4HANA release and what  the preparation steps are. In general:

SAP Readiness Check supports the next SAP S/4HANA release automatically from the day the new SAP S/4HANA release is released.

The following tiles are impacted when a new SAP S/4HANA version is released: Add-ons, active business functions, Simplification Items, Activities related to Simplification Items, recommended Fiori apps.

For preparation: There is no need to update the implemented SAP Notes:
If you have already implemented the relevant SAP Notes (see SAP Note 2758146) and set up your SAP ECC system correctly, you can just run a new SAP Readiness Check analysis choosing the new target release from the dropdown.
That being said it is always recommended to have the latest version of SAP Note 2758146 implemented.

Note: Some customers may not be able to see the latest version due to a missing connection between their SAP ECC system and SAP support system. In such case, download the latest content from https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/sic/overview and use report /SDF/RC_START_CHECK from SAP Note 2399707 to “Upload Simplification Item Catalog from file”

#4 Who can see my analysis?

Once an analysis is created, it is visible to all s-users which belong to the same customer number.
When uploading your Zip file, you can tick the second box to acknowledge that all SAP employees may access and use the SAP Readiness Check Results for SAP business purposes like support, services, and marketing.
If you would like to share the analysis with selected SAP employees or partners, you can

  • create an s-user for them
  • use the “Settings” button on the top right to grant access maintaining their email address

 

#5 What authorization is required to perform SAP Readiness Check?

The user must have Activity 16 (execution) of authorization object S_DEVELOP and authorization object SM_BPM_DET with Characteristic of ‘OBJECT_MS’ (collected KPIs) to perform SAP Readiness Check.

#6 Which system and client shall SAP Readiness Check be executed on?

SAP Readiness Check needs to be executed only once per SAP ECC system.

SAP Readiness Check should be run in the production system and must be run in the productive client. This ensures that all checks are executed properly. In case you have more than one productive client the result of the Business Process Reality Check will currently only include the analysis of the client where Readiness Check was executed. All other SAP Readiness Check analyses are client-independent and you will always get complete results of the ECC system considering data of all productive clients.

#7 Add-On and/or Business Function tiles are empty

Please make sure you have maintained your system data in SAP Maintenance Planner either:

  • as per SAP Note 2287046 – How to Generate the System Info XML and upload to Maintenance Planner or
  • via SAP Solution Manager

If data is still now showing up, please open a support incident on component BC-UPG-MP.

#8 What is the expected performance impact if I run SAP Readiness Check on my PROD system?

SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA has been developed to limit the impact on resource consumption in the customer’s production system. In addition, the data collection framework for SAP Readiness Check offers customers the ability to control when and how the data collectors are processed. Below are two screenshots of the data collection framework selection screen. The first image is of the Standard Mode. The second image is of the Expert Mode, which offers further controls for managing the data collection of individual checks.

This flexibility in the data collection framework and the differences in data constellations and hardware differences among our installed base make it difficult to provide relevant runtime statistics. The best means to assess any potential impact is for the customer to monitor and analyze the data collection within a non-production environment before scheduling the data collectors in their production system. Commonly this is not an issue for customers, as customers typically test the contents of the transport containing the data collectors as they move to production. However, it must be noted that the runtimes could still vary in production due to any hardware differences, system-specific performance tuning differences, and differences in data footprint.

Customers can, and should, use SAP Readiness Check to analyze each system in their landscape, which they plan to convert using Software Update Manager. The guidance SAP Note for SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA (SAP Note 2913617) recommends explicitly analyzing the production system, as the results from this system are the results that should be used during the scoping and planning of the conversion project. Relying solely on the results of a non-production system (even a recent copy of production) to plan the project exposes the project to hidden risks that could impact the budget and timeline. For instance, it can be expected that customers have different interfaces configured in non-production systems compared to their production environment. As a result, the Integration check from a non-production system could be misleading or incomplete. Similar is true when analyzing financial data quality, as non-production systems typically contain stale production data or manually generated transactional data.

It is also important to highlight that SAP Readiness Check dashboard results can be updated with the results from subsequent data collector runs. This means customers can use the flexibility provided in the data collection framework to execute an initial data collection run to create the analysis in our cloud application and then update that analysis with subsequent data collection runs (in the same system, same client, and for the same target product version). This provides the ability to construct (or update) the results in a piecemeal approach.

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      Author's profile photo Timo Bauer
      Timo Bauer

      Interesting blog, helpful to be able explain additional features of RC to our customers, thank you!

      Author's profile photo Gaspare Grassia
      Gaspare Grassia

      Well explained and good overview, thank you Ariane!

      Author's profile photo Dheeraj Kadiyala
      Dheeraj Kadiyala

      Hi,

      We’re pursuing the below approach for migrating our multiple ERP production systems to S/4 HANA 1809. Having said that, does readiness check 2.0 and simplification item checks are required to run or applicable to this scenario as well?

       

      “Selective data transition using Landscape transformation”

       

      Regards,

      Dheeraj

      Author's profile photo Ariane Hoffmann
      Ariane Hoffmann
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Dheeraj, sorry for my late answer! It depends on what sort of SDT project you are doing.

      If you create a brand new system without any data but keeping configuration and custom code, then the sizing tile and data volume management part will not be relevant for you, but all other tiles are.

      In any case I would run Readiness Check as either way some tiles are relevant.

      Kind Regards,

      Ariane

      Author's profile photo Pankaj Agarwal
      Pankaj Agarwal

      Hi Ariane Hoffmann

      On the similar lines, if we want to create a shell copy and then convert the shell copy to S/4 then can you please mention as whether RC is even needed at all? And if at all is needed then which all sections would be relevant.

      Asking because the shell copy is generally an empty system (no master or transactional data) but would have only customizing and custom code repository. So when there is no data in the system then all data relevant tiles in the RC in my opinion would not be needed.

      Many Thanks in advance

      Regards,

      Pankaj Agarwal

      Ashwini Chaskar

      Tony Liu

      Author's profile photo Fetih Köroglu
      Fetih Köroglu

      Hello Ariane,

      We executed the RC report unfortunately one time in 000 client, then we noticed that it was not right. And we had executed one more time in the productive client. Both collected results had almost same data size (I mean zip files downloaded from rc report).

      And then I thought that maybe we should delete buffered data in the report after that it could be better. So we did it and executed last time. Data size were this time circa 150 KB pretty low by comparison with previous.

      So, my question; is that a fatal mistake for the RC analyse? could be that results reliable?

      Kind Regards,

      Fetih

      Author's profile photo Tony Liu
      Tony Liu

      Hi Fetih,

      That to execute the collect data report in productive client is right.

      For the data size question,  I would like suggest that you can extra the zip file and compare the each XML file size.

      If something is wrong here, you can create customer message for component "SV-SCS-S4R".

       

      Best,

      Tony

       

      Author's profile photo Sorin Ritco
      Sorin Ritco

      Hello Ariane,

      Can you please confirm if ReadinessCheck 2.0 can be used for clients already on S/4HANA but upgrading to 1909 by example to calculate the delta on code and innovative business solution?

      First of all- almost all OSS notes are available and installed on S4HANA, and on some notes I see mentioning of deltas between 1709 and 1909;

      If you can confirm or infirm..

       

      Thanks,

      Kind Regards,

      Sorin

      Author's profile photo Ariane Hoffmann
      Ariane Hoffmann
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Sorin, I am very sorry for my late reply, I did not receive any notifications for questions here.

      No, Readiness Check does not support S/4HANA as source release. We are working on a Readiness Check for upgrades though.

      If you are currently planning an upgrade, please use:

       

      Kind Regards,

      Ariane

      Author's profile photo Malik areeb ahmed Khan
      Malik areeb ahmed Khan

      Hi Ariane,

      Need Urgent Help

      Currently we are planning to upgrade system from SAP S/4HANA 1610 to SAP S/4HANA 1909 and wanted to check if there is any tool available to perform custom code analysis and to get the details on how we can prepare our system for 1909 Upgrade.

      or can you please confirm if Readiness Check 2.0 still does not support upgrade scenarios to analyse the system data?

       

      Regards

      Areeb Ahmed

       

      Author's profile photo Deepika Rajaram
      Deepika Rajaram
      Hello Ariane,

      This is a wonderful blog. Very useful information!!


      I would like to know if readiness check 2.0 is supported from solution manager?

      Could you please advice?


      Thanks.

      Best regards,

      Deepika
      Author's profile photo Deepika Rajaram
      Deepika Rajaram

      Hello Everyone,

      FYI.

      After some discussion with SAP, I understood that readiness check 2.0 is no longer supported from solution manager. Running the analysis from solution manager has been discontinued.

      Thanks.

       

       

       

      Author's profile photo Ariane Hoffmann
      Ariane Hoffmann
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Deepika,

      really sorry for my late reply and you are correct - the option to run Readiness Check via Solution Manager has been retired and will not be available again in future.

      Kind Regards,

      Ariane

      Author's profile photo Thyge Friis
      Thyge Friis

      Hello Ariane,

      How can we download/export our comments from the RC 2.0?

      We have previously generated a first RC 2.0. In this first analysis, we have manually added comments
      - for simplification items – the manual status – rationale why each is in scope/out of scope
      - for add-on functions – the manual status – rationale why each is compatible/incompatible

      It is possible to generate a ‘results document’ in a zip-file containing multiple spreadsheets and a word document. However, we unfortunately cannot see/find the before-mentioned comments in any of these.

      The consequence is that the "comment feature" is not really useful. When we create a second RC 2.0 analysis, we need to re-enter comments.

      Suggest a future improvement ...;)

      Best regards Thyge Friis

      Author's profile photo Tony Liu
      Tony Liu

      Hi Thyge,

      Thanks for your feedback. I am from SAP Readiness Check support team. We will think about your suggestion. 🙂

      Best,
      Tony

      Author's profile photo Thyge Friis
      Thyge Friis

      @Tony Liu: Just now observed that the ‘Simplification Items’ have got a spreadsheet/Excel icon and this includes previously entered _manual_ comments.
      Great 🙂

      Thank you

      Author's profile photo Søren Skou Hansen
      Søren Skou Hansen

      Hi Tony,

      As Thyge mentions below it is now possible to download the comments you have manually entered into a spreadsheet..

      But is there any way you can upload/transfer manually added comments from a previous analysis to a new analysis? Or do you have to manually re-enter them for the new analysis based on the spreadsheet downloaded from the previous analysis?

      Best regards,

      Soren

      Author's profile photo Basis Team
      Basis Team

      Hi Ariane,

      Need your suggestion on below.

      We ran S4 Readiness check 2.0 in Test system. TAANA ANALYSIS  job took almost 73 hrs to complete.

      This  Job spent almost 55+ hrs of  time at one particular table which is having 3612370000 entries (1.5 tb of size). Total db size is 20TB. 

      Would it be possible to use parallel process to finish this quickly in production system ? or any other alternate options we have to speed up this ? just fyi, in test and prod we have same memory configurations.

      Would it be okie If we consider running this readiness check only in Test  by bringing latest st03n data from production to test?

       

      Thanks,

      Sandeep

       

      Author's profile photo Ariane Hoffmann
      Ariane Hoffmann
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Sandeep,

      Thank you for your question!

      The TAANA analysis check is known to run long in larger systems. The collection process is designed with the intent to minimize workload consumption on the source system. If you attempt to expedite the data collection process, more capacity will be consumed. In the end, you would need to balance your interest in reducing the duration of the runtime and the overall consumption of system capacity. There are multiple available options for you to consider, including:

      1. Validate the completion of all DVM preparation steps as outlined in SAP Note 1159758
      2. Disable the DVM option in the selection screen of the data collection program, but realize that the guidance would not be available for this system
      3. Run the DVM data collection separate from the rest of the SAP Readiness Check data collectors by scheduling multiple executions with different selections
      4. If you have further concerns, you can create an SAP Incident under the component SV-SMG-DVM to further evaluate the runtime performance

      Kind Regards,

      Ariane

      Author's profile photo John F
      John F

      Hello Ariane,

      Thanks for the great blog and information.

      You mentioned that for multiple productive clients, some results are not delivered for all clients. I also checked the note where it mentions -

      "Business process discovery check, business partner check, and the data volume management check will only include the analysis of the client where SAP Readiness Check was executed"

      Are there anything we should keep in mind while running Readiness Check for mutliple production clients - if we want complete results?

      And another question:

      If we split the extraction job to have the DVM run later (for performance reasons), can we upload the extraction results sequentially while ensuring the 2 extractions do not overwrite each other?

      Or is there a way to bundle the individual job runs into a single zip?

      Ariane Hoffmann 

      Tony Liu 

      Author's profile photo Barbara Bollard
      Barbara Bollard

      Hi John,

      Thank you for your question. Integration, Customer Vendor Integration Analysis and Financial Data Quality tiles are also client dependent.

      And yes you can run and upload your DVM separately.

      Kind regards

      Barbara

      Author's profile photo Prabhu Reddy
      Prabhu Reddy

      Hi SAP Team,

       

      This is a helpful blog.

      I have a basic doubts on the Readiness checks for S/4 HANA Conversion 2020.

      1. What is the difference between /SDF/RC_START_CHECK and RC_COLLECT_ANALYSIS_DATA reports?
      2. What is the best option to run the /SDF/RC_START_CHECK in parallelism?

       

      Regards,

      Prabhu Reddy.

      Author's profile photo Mahesh Sardesai
      Mahesh Sardesai

      Hi Prabhu,

      Report /SDF/RC_START_CHECK is for detailed simplification list and RC_COLLECT_ANALYSIS_DATA is for Readiness Check.

      I am not aware of parallelism in /SDF/RC_START_CHECK but if the report is taking longtime please try the methods suggested in opensap course Week1 Topic 3 towards the end -  https://open.sap.com/courses/s4h14-1/items/1xmyNDSayheuZCaKbWfW1q

      Author's profile photo Prabhu Reddy
      Prabhu Reddy

      Hi Mahesh,

      Thanks for the clarification and sharing the details.

      Regards,

      Prabhu Reddy.

      Author's profile photo Dinesh Kumar
      Dinesh Kumar

      Hi,

       

      I ran Readiness check 2.0 two time. it got failed on TANA ANALYSIS with DB memory limit. after increasing the DB memory limit, when i ran the job again then it did not triggered TANA ANALYSIS.

       

      what could be the reason and how to re-run it again?

      Author's profile photo Janine Parial
      Janine Parial

      Hi Ariane,

       

      Great blog entry! It's very informative 🙂

      I have 1 question though that I hope you can shine some light on.

      • We already executed RC in year 2018. The one we did is with Solman and I read in 1 of the comments that this approach is already discontinued. Does this mean that we have to re-do all the setup and note installations that we previously did? or RC v2.0 is totally a new approach?

      Thank you in advance. 🙂

      Janine

      Author's profile photo Astrid Tschense
      Astrid Tschense

      Hi Janine,

      sorry for the late reply - maybe this answer is still helpful:

      To start with SAP Readiness Check 2.0, you have to deimplement SAP Note 2310438 (2310438 - SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA - Managed System (Obsolete) - SAP ONE Support Launchpad) 

      Then proceed with the setup of the SAP Readiness Check data collector framework with SAP Note 2913617 (2913617 - SAP Readiness Check for SAP S/4HANA - SAP ONE Support Launchpad)
      and follow the description in this note.

      Best Regards,

      Astrid

      Author's profile photo Satya Viswanath Rajanala
      Satya Viswanath Rajanala

      Hi,

      We are upgrading ECC 6.0 EHP8 to S/4 HANA 2020. We have separate SAP Boxes for below Add-on's on ECC.

      SAP APO 7.0 ADD-ON EHP4 ON ERP 6.0 EHP8
      SAP RETAIL ADD-ON ERP 6.0 EhP8 SPS15

      1. Can we perform Readiness Check on above Add-On systems?
      2. What will be recommended approach to perform Custom code analysis on Add-On systems?

      Thank you.

      Author's profile photo Ariane Hoffmann
      Ariane Hoffmann
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Satya,

      I am sorry for my late response on your question. If it still helps you:

      You can run SAP Readiness Check on the separate add-on system, as by the names of the add-ons, the system in question is an SAP ERP 6.0 EHP8 system. However the question is do you plan to convert this system as well? If you do, then there is value in performing the analysis. If you don’t, there is no need to analyze the system.

      The custom code analysis question comes down to the same general question on project scope. IF you plan to convert the system, you should analyze the custom code using SYCM (optionally) and ATC or the custom code migration app.

      In general, it appears that you have a unique solution landscape. As a result, you should discuss the project scope and risk mitigation techniques with your systems integrator of choice or request support from the SAP account team.

      I hope this helps.

      Kind Regards,

      Ariane

      Author's profile photo Frederic Cleff
      Frederic Cleff

      Thank you for this great blog.

      Does anybody knows how to change the language of the RC Dashboard? When I jump in it is still in german and I want to switch to english.

      Thanks,

      Frederic

      Author's profile photo Frederic Cleff
      Frederic Cleff

      I got it. This setting is located in the browser language settings.

      BR,

      Frederic

      Author's profile photo Ariane Hoffmann
      Ariane Hoffmann
      Blog Post Author

      Great Frederic! This is the right way. In our next version, we will provide a language setting function within the application itself so that end users can do it more easily.

      Author's profile photo Thyge Friis
      Thyge Friis

      What are the "minimum selection criteria" for the RC? (RC_COLLECT_ANALYSIS_DATA)

      I just tried to execute for target S/4HANA 2022 in standard mode and selecting only 'Integration'. Subsequently when trying to create a new analysis, and pressing the final 'Create' button, the web page responds:

      The uploaded file is not valid. Verify that the file has been downloaded using the report from the SAP Readiness Check Data Collector.