Using Analysis Mode in Import History Web UI

Use

The Analysis Mode in the Import History Web UI displays the results of the downgrade analysis. The downgrade analysis checks whether objects in transports that were imported earlier have been downgraded by objects in transports that were imported later, but which have an earlier export time stamp. The downgrade analysis is available for non-ABAP objects and ABAP objects.

The system displays all transports that have been successfully imported, that is, with a return code of 0 to 4. If a transport has been imported multiple times, the system displays it only once with the time stamp of the last successful import.

Prerequisites

If you want to use Analysis Mode for ABAP systems you must be logged on locally to the ABAP system and CTS plug-in (software component CTS_PLUG) must be installed in this system.

Procedure

Start the Import Queue Web UI for the SAP system whose import history you want to display.
Choose History.
Optional: Change the time interval, and choose Refresh.

Choose Analysis Mode.

A list of transports that have been imported successfully in the selected time interval is displayed together with more details on the transports, including the result of the downgrade analysis.

The list displays icons with the following status information:

Status	Description
Imported in the right order	The transport was imported successfully and in the correct order.
Imported in the wrong order	The transport was imported successfully but not in the correct order. As no overlaps exist with other transports, the icon is green.
Repaired	Objects in the transport had once been downgraded. But other transports were imported afterwards which contained the objects with newer export time stamps. Therefore, the status Repaired is assigned to the transports.
Downgraded	Objects in the transport have been downgraded by objects in transports that were imported later, but which have an earlier export time stamp. To display more details about the downgraded objects and the relevant transports, click on the icon.
Could not be calculated	Sometimes the downgrades analysis cannot be performed, because object IDs are missing, for example. In this case, no result exists for the transport.

If a transport has the status Downgraded, click on the icon to display details. This includes details on the downgraded objects, the transport that was imported earlier (downgraded transport) and the transport that was imported later (downgrading transport), both including their export time stamps.

Note

When the downgrade analysis starts for the first time for a specific system, a background job is created for the analysis. The job is called HISTORY_ANALYSIS_JOB<SID> (with the JOB_VARIANT<SID> variant). The job is in status Scheduled. To be able to run, it must be released. For authorization reasons, an administrator should release the job (or copy it for another user and release it). Once it is released, it is executed periodically (every 60 minutes by default) in the background and calculates the results of the downgrade analysis for the transports that have been imported recently. Regular execution of the background job allows users to retrieve the results of the downgrade analysis very fast because the system has already calculated most of them at an earlier point in time.

For more information on background jobs and authorizations required for them, see Background Processing.