SAP Accounting Interface

Definition

The SAP accounting interface is an application programming interface (API) to statistics data on system resource consumption. The statistics data is collected by the CCMS (Computing Center Management System) workload monitor. Application developers can use the SAP accounting interface to access this data. The collected data can be mapped to accounts and passed on to accounting software for accounting purposes.

Data is collected and summarized by the job COLLECTOR_FOR_PERFORMANCEMONITOR.

The SAP accounting interface has two summary modes:

User summary: summarizes the data for each user

Account summary: uses the user summary data to generate data for all users assigned to an account

Use

System resources include the number of requests that are made, the CPU time that is used on the application servers, and other common time values that are collected by the CCMS workload monitor.

Requests can be:

Dialog steps
Background job steps
Update requests
Spool requests

Statistical data is available for each user for daily, weekly or monthly periods, and can be summarized for accounts.

You can select statistics data for one instance, or for the entire system, if you use TOTAL. The statistics data can be read for a specific client or for all existing clients.

From SAP R/3 4.5, you can individually switch off the creation of total weekly and monthly statistics or accounting statistics. For more information, see SAP Note 127642 on the SAP Service Marketplace and Parameters for RSSTAT80/83 and RSSTAT87/88/89.

SAP Accounting Function Modules

The SAP accounting interface consists of two function modules. Both function modules have an RFC interface, which means that they can be accessed from outside the SAP system.

SAPWL_ACCNT_GET_DIRECTORY: Creates a table of contents describing the available accounting data from the CCMS workload monitor

SAPWL_ACCNT_GET_SYSTEM_USAGE: Reads, prepares, and summarizes the available accounting data