Customizing Cross-System Viewer

Authorizations

You need the following authorizations for the Customizing Cross-System Viewer:

The authorization S_TABU_RFC is in the authorization profiles S_A.SYSTEM, S_A.CUSTOMIZ, and S_CUS_CMP.

Security

The compare client security level must be:

• 0 (unrestricted)

• 1 (no overwriting)

You can set this in the client maintenance. For more information, see Maintain Clients.

You must logon to the compare client, even if it is in the same system as the logon client. You must create a Remote Function Call connection. You must create a Remote Function Call connection. For more information, see Maintaining Remote Destinations.

Selection Conditions for Comparisons

The Customizing Cross-System Viewer compares customizing objects by the following criteria:

• Project IMG

  This option shows changes in your project.

• Application Components

  This option compares customizing objects in specified application areas.

• Business Configuration Sets

  This option compares the customizing settings in a Business Configuration Set with the corresponding customizing settings in your logon client.

• Transport Requests

  This option shows the objects which could be overwritten by a transport.

• Manual Selection

  In this option, you specify which objects are compared.

• ALE Distribution Group

  This option views the objects to which specific maintenance, ownership and distribution characteristics have been assigned via a specific ALE distribution group. Comparisons monitor production processing and perform an initial data comparison analysis.

Comparison Overview Lists

For the selected set of objects, you have the following options:

• Object Overview

  This is a list from which you can preselect objects for comparison.

• Complete comparison in dialog

• Complete comparison in background

The result is an overview of the differences between the two clients compared. You can process the differences from the overview.

Status indicator

Each object compared has two status flags:

• Comparison Status

  Type of any differences found. Assigned automatically. Processing Status

• Processing status

  Distinguishes between objects which have been processed and those which have not.

  You can assign the processing status manually. A subsequent comparison will change the processing status of objects with no differences from Open ( ) to Completed ( ).

The possible settings for each status indicator are listed in the following table:

Status Settings

You can list these values in the worklist legend.

Comparison may not be possible for the following reasons:

• Process cancelled

• Table/view does not exist in logon or compare client

• Table/view is too wide

• The user has no display authorization in the logon or compare client

• There is no extended table maintenance dialog in the compare client

• Communication error (RFC)

• Comparison system crash

• Key structure not convertible

• Field structure not convertible

• The table is a system table and therefore excluded from comparison

Comparison Options

You can perform comparisons in various ways:

• Individual Comparison

  Shows differences between objects

• Complete Comparison

  In dialog or background

Utilities and Other Functions

Utilities and other functions:

• Determine the overall comparison status

• Determine the processing status of specified objects

• Select or deselect objects for comparison

  You can select or deselect all objects, some objects or a block of objects.

• Go to the Implementation Guide (IMG) to access the IMG activities for specified objects

• Display difference and object type statistics

• Display application components in the application component hierarchy

• Display comparison status, processing status and object type legend

• Filter the display by processing status, comparison status and object type criteria

• Exclude Objects from Comparison