Customizing Cross-System Viewer 

Use

This tool compares customizing objects in two clients in the same or different SAP systems.

To compare objects, start the Customizing Cross-System Viewer in the logon client. Logon to the comparison client.

Prerequisites

Authorizations

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

Procedure	Logon client	Comparison client
Object comparison	S_TABU_DIS (display authorization) S_TABU_RFC	S_TABU_DIS (display authorization) S_TABU_RFC
Object processing	S_TABU_DIS (maintenance authorization) S_TABU_RFC	S_TABU_DIS (display authorization) S_TABU_RFC
Additional authorization for editing cross-client objects	S_TABU_CLI

To compare objects in a system before Release 4.5A, you need authorization S_TABU_CLI and not S_TABU_RFC in the compare client.

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. 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 link. See Maintain remote destinations.

Features

The Customizing Cross-System Viewer generates comparisons for selected customizing objects, which are saved as a worklist in the database.

You can make any number of comparisons with each worklist, in dialog or background. A comparison shows the differences for each object. You can also make an individual comparison for each object.

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 considers the objects which have been assigned specified maintenance, owner and distribution attributes by a specified ALE distribution group in an ALE integrated system. Comparisons monitor production processing and perform an initial data comparison analysis.

Comparison overview lists

Options:

·        Object overview

You can select objects from this list to be compared.

·        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 flags

Each object compared has two status flags:

·        Comparison status

Type of any differences found. Assigned automatically.

·        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 status values are:

Status values

Status	Icon	Meaning
Processing status		Open
		In Process
		Completed
Comparison status		Views/tables not yet compared
		View/table contents are identical
		View/table contents are identical and there are structure differences
		View/table contents are not identical
		View/table contents are not identical and there are structure differences
		Cannot be compared (see below)

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