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 Deactivation of Transaction SMSY

Deactivation

The Solution Manager Systems storage (transaction SMSY) was disabled in SAP Solution Manager 7.2. Most functions have been replaced by the landscape management database (transaction LMDB), since SAP Solution Manager 7.1, already.

When you enter transaction SMSY, you are redirected to transaction LMDB. Data from old releases is stored in the background, for example for reuse in Solution Documentation. The SMSY storage is no longer updated and cannot be changed or consumed by other applications.

The following list shows the entities that were previously maintained in SMSY, together with the new maintenance locations.

Technical Systems, Hosts, Transport Domains

Technical systems, hosts, and transport domains are managed in the LMDB. For more information, see Managing Technical System Information.

Product Systems

In SAP Solution Manager 7.2, product systems are obsolete. The entity 'product system' is replaced by maintenance dependencies between systems, which are managed in the maintenance planner in SAP Support Portal. For more information, see http://help.sap.com/maintenanceplannerInformation published on SAP site.

Non-SAP Products

Information on non-SAP products (often referred to as customer products) are now created in the SLD. For more information, see Managing Non-SAP Product Descriptions.

RFC Connections

Since SAP Solution Manager 7.1, RFC connections to AS ABAP systems are no longer set up in SMSY. For more information, see Performing the Managed Systems Configuration Start of the navigation path RFC Connections for Application Server ABAP End of the navigation path.

Flag for Leading Software Components

The Leading flag for software components is obsolete and does not need to be maintained any longer.

SMSY System Groups (Projects, Solutions, Logical Components)

In SMSY, system groups could be projects, solutions, or logical components.

For logical components, including system roles, see Managing Logical Components.

Solutions and processes are now managed in Solution Documentation (transaction SLAN). For more information, see Solution Documentation.

Customer Attributes

Customer attributes from SMSY can now be found in the editor for technical systems in the LMDB, on the Attributes tab of the Overview screen. For more information, see the LMDB help texts.

Business Partner Assignments

In SMSY, you could assign business partners to technical systems and to product systems. In the LMDB, you can only assign business partners to technical systems. This can be done in the Business Partners tab of the Overview screen.

Installed Licenses

In SAP Solution Manager 7.0 and 7.1, installed license information on managed systems could be displayed and managed in transaction SMSY. The data was synchronized with LMDB. There were two major issues: Other than other system information, the system license data was directly read by SMSY from the system itself, using RFC. And license data management was not supported for some system types, such as SAP HANA database.

To simplify the license management, and to make it more reliable, SAP Solution Manager 7.2 directly collects license data from the managed systems, by SLD data suppliers. License management reads the installed license information from the LMDB. For more information, see http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31457Information published on SAP site.

Now, also new system types like SAP HANA are supported.

Prerequisites:

  • The managed system must have a system license, installed from SAP Support Portal.

  • The managed system is registered automatically via SLD data supplier.

  • The SLD and the data suppliers on all managed systems need to be patched:

    • For the SLD, see SAP Note 1990269Information published on SAP site.

    • For AS ABAP systems, see SAP Note 1977240Information published on SAP site.

    • For AS Java systems, see SAP Note 1983424Information published on SAP site.

You can display license data in the LMDB editor for technical systems on the Overview screen, on the Installed Licenses tab.

Transport Management Data

Information from Transport Management System (TMS) is no longer received by RFC and stored in SMSY. It is now sent by data supplier to the SLD and managed in the LMDB.

System Status

In SMSY, system statuses (for example, active, planned, production, temporarily inactive) could be assigned. In the editor for technical systems in the LMDB, you can define a Lifecycle Status on the Attributes tab of the Overview screen.

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