Cutover Checks and Post-Cutover Activities

Cutover Checks and Post-Cutover Activities reduce the manual effort of cutover activities in N + 1 system landscapes.

Cutover checks and post-cutover activities are performed for a change cycle. If you are using this function, change cycles that are created in a branch that is not the maintenance branch have an additional assignment block Cutover Checks and Activities in the WebClient UI, which you can use to execute the cutover checks and the post-cutover activities.

Once you have executed a cutover check, you can choose Export to Spreadsheet to export the check results to an Excel spreadsheet.

Prerequisites

  • You have the Focused Build add-on (ST-OST 200) installed.

  • You are using Change Request Management in a multi landscape.

  • You have completed the Customizing activities for cutover checks in Customizing (IMG) under Start of the navigation pathSAP Solution Manager Implementation Guide Next navigation step SAP Solution Manager Next navigation step Focused Build Next navigation step Change Control Management Extensions Next navigation step Cutover ManagementEnd of the navigation path.

  • You use the business role /SALM/SM_PRO.

Cutover Checks

You perform the cutover checks before the cutover in order to check and minimize the risks that can arise during the cutover into the maintenance landscape.

  1. In the WebClient UI, open the change cycle document.

  2. In the Cutover Checks and Activities assignment block, open the Cutover Checks tab page.

  3. Choose Perform Checks.

The cutover checks check the following:

  • Have all retrofits been executed in the parallel track?

  • Are the retrofitted changes active?

  • Are there objects in the scope of the cutover that are in conflict with other objects that are currently processed in the target system?

If a check fails, the result list gives feedback about the objects, transports, and changes for which a problem was found. You can then navigate to the affected objects and process them manually.

Post-Cutover Activities

You execute the automated post-cutover activities after the cutover has been performed and all software changes have been deployed into the maintenance track. You execute the post-cutover activities for each system of the maintenance landscape individually. Which post-cutover activities are available for a system depends on the role of the system in the landscape and the order of the systems in the transport track.

  1. In the WebClient UI, open the change cycle document.

  2. In the Cutover Checks and Activities assignment block, open the Post Cutover Activities tab page.

  3. Select a system and choose Execute Selected.