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Function documentationDistributing Urgent Changes

 

If an urgent change you have made in a production system is also relevant for other, parallel production systems or for another productive client in the same change control landscape, you can distribute it to them with the ”Distribute change” action. The system creates a new urgent change containing the data of the original urgent change, and transports the corrections to the specified system.

Prerequisites

  • To activate this functionality for the SAP standard transaction type for urgent changes (SMHF), make the following settings:

    • In Customizing for SAP Solution Manager, under Start of the navigation path Capabilities Next navigation step Change Control Management Next navigation step Transactions Next navigation step Actions Next navigation step Change Actions and Conditions Next navigation step Define Action Profiles and Actions End of the navigation path, remove the Inactive flag for the action definition SMHF_DISTRIBUTE.

    • In Customizing for SAP Solution Manager under Start of the navigation path Capabilities Next navigation step Change Control Management Next navigation step Implementation of Dialog Boxes in the WebClient UI Next navigation step Assign Dialog Box to a PPF Action End of the navigation path, activate the action definition SMHF_DISTRIBUTE.

    • In Customizing for SAP Solution Manager under Start of the navigation path Capabilities Next navigation step Change Control Management Next navigation step Change Request Management Framework Next navigation step Make Settings for Change Transaction Types End of the navigation path, assign the following Customizing settings for consistency checks to the user statuses of your process.

      User Status

      Sequence

      Consistency Check

      Application Area

      Message Number

      Message Type

      To Be Tested

      60

      DISTRIBUTOR

      CHM1_ACTION_LOG

      057

      Information

      Successfully Tested

      60

      DISTRIBUTOR

      CHM1_ACTION_LOG

      057

      Information

      Authorized for Production

      60

      FATHER_IS_PRODUCTIVE

      CHM1_ACTION_LOG

      063

      Cancel

      Authorized for Production

      60

      DISTRIBUTOR

      CHM1_ACTION_LOG

      057

      Information

      Note Note

      DISTRIBUTOR consistency check: The system checks the condition to see whether a transaction that is to be distributed is assigned to the urgent change. If this condition finds a distributed change, the system displays the message CHM1_ACTION_LOG 057.

      FATHER_IS_PRODUCTIVE consistency check: The system checks whether the transport request of the urgent change from which the distributing urgent change was created has been imported into the production system. If so, the system displays the message CHM1_ACTION_LOG 063.

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  • To activate this functionality for your customer-specific urgent change transaction type, make the following settings:

    • If you have copied your urgent change transaction type from the standard transaction type before SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP08, create a PPF action in the PPF action profile, with the same settings as the SMHF_DISTRIBUTE action. The name of your new PPF action must contain the character string DISTRIBUTE, for example, ZMHF_DISTRIBUTE_NEW.

    • If you have copied your urgent change transaction type from the standard transaction type in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP08 or higher, the system automatically copies the action SMHF_DISTRIBUTE, to [XX]HF_DISTRIBUTE. Activate this PPF action in Customizing for SAP Solution Manager, under Start of the navigation path Change Control Management Next navigation step Implementation of Dialog Boxes in WebClient UI Next navigation step Assign Dialog Box to a PPF Action End of the navigation path.

    • In Customizing for SAP Solution Manager under Start of the navigation path Capabilities Next navigation step Change Control Management Next navigation step Change Request Management Framework Next navigation step Make Settings for Change Transaction Types End of the navigation path, assign the following Customizing settings for consistency checks to your customer transaction type to the user statuses of your process.

      User Status

      Sequence

      Consistency Check

      Application Area

      Message Number

      Message Type

      To Be Tested

      60

      DISTRIBUTOR

      CHM1_ACTION_LOG

      057

      Information

      Successfully Tested

      60

      DISTRIBUTOR

      CHM1_ACTION_LOG

      057

      Information

      Authorized for Production

      60

      FATHER_IS_PRODUCTIVE

      CHM1_ACTION_LOG

      063

      Cancel

      Authorized for Production

      60

      DISTRIBUTOR

      CHM1_ACTION_LOG

      057

      Information

Activities

  1. When an urgent change has status “Successfully tested”, you can choose the “Distribute change” action.

  2. The system displays all production systems into which the change can be distributed.

  3. After selecting a production system, the system confirms that the change has been distributed. The IBase and the data for developer, tester, IT operator and change manager are copied into the new urgent change.

Note Note

When the action triggers the import of the distributed urgent change, a downgrade check is performed. For more information, see Downgrade Protection.

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