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Use

With non-production systems, you can often make changes to system profiles. In the case of production SAP systems, changes to the system profiles are only rarely required. In both cases, you should use the profile maintenance to maintain the profiles.

The profile maintenance tool has the following advantages:

  • Convenience of use

  • Extensive profile checks

  • Testing of (several) individual profiles for consistency

  • No inconvenient profile editing at operating system level

  • Changes to profiles are logged

  • Profile data is held in the SAP database (security, consistency)

  • Provision of basic data for operation mode switching

    Note

    You should no longer edit profiles with an editor at operating system level. It only makes sense to do this if the SAP system cannot be started in any other way.

Integration

You can edit profiles using basic maintenance or extended maintenance.

  • In basic maintenance, general data bout the profile and the parameters for buffer sizes, the number of work processes, and swap requirements is displayed.

  • In extended maintenance, the individual parameter values for the profile are displayed.

    Note

    Detailed documentation is available for every parameter in the profile. To display the documentation, place the cursor on the parameter and choose F1.

Prerequisites

Set Authorizations

To use the profile maintenance, assign authorization values to the authorization object S_RZL_ADM in accordance with the desired processing mode:

Processing Mode

Value of 'Activity' Field of the S_RZL_ADM Object

Edit and display profiles

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Display profiles

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Import Profiles

Since you are working with profile data from the SAP database in the profile maintenance, you need to ensure that this data matches the corresponding active profiles in the file systems of the instances. You do this by importing the profiles. To import the profiles for all active servers, choose Start of the navigation path Utilities Next navigation step Import Profiles Next navigation step Of Active Servers End of the navigation path. For more informaiton, see Saving and Importing Profiles After Installation.

Ensure that you import the profiles in the following situations:

  • Before you first use the profile maintenance

  • After installing a new application server

  • After changing a profile at operating system level

To check whether the profile in the database matches the active profile in the file system, you can compare these profiles at any time. To do this, select the desired profile in the profile maintenance and choose Start of the navigation path Profile Next navigation step Compare Next navigation step Profile in Database Next navigation step Against Active Profile End of the navigation path.