Business Process Operations

This part of SAP Library gives you an overview of the changes and new features that have been made to SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SPS 14 since SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SPS 13.

This information is provided as release notes, which are structured by Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) processes. The following table gives you an overview of new, enhanced and deleted functions in the Business Process Operations process.

Business Process Improvement

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
Usage analysis	New	You can get an overview of the usage of analytical key figures and dashboards by end users.	Usage Analysis
Data collection log	New	You can analyze the root cause of problems in Analytics and dashboards.	Data Collection Log
Dependency diagrams	New	You can display and configure diagrams to show the dependencies of key performance indicators (KPIs).	Dependency Diagrams
Operations control center (OCC) reporting	Enhanced	If you have an OCC, to optimize its performance report on key figures such as Confirmed alerts with/without incidents or Average duration until alert confirmation, for example.	Reporting the Operations Control Center Performance

Data Consistency Management

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
Cross-Database Comparison	Enhanced	New source types have been added for OData services, BW, and CSV.	Data Sources in Cross-Database Comparison
Comparison Run Results	Enhanced	You can now change the default descriptions of the inconsistency types.	Displaying Comparison Results

Job Scheduling Management

Function	Type of Change	Description	More Information
Central Job Overview	New	If you use an external scheduler to schedule jobs, the job information is only available in the external scheduler. The Central Job Overview allows business users and IT administrators to select and view job data over the complete lifecycle, similar to the Job Overview (transaction SM37). The end user does not have to know any technical details about the external scheduler. If the job is part of a job chain, hierarchical job chain information is also displayed. You can drill down to detailed information about any job in the chain. To provide this overview, data is collected directly from the managed system and the external scheduler. Note SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood (SAP CPS)/ SAP Business Process Automation by Redwood (SAP BPA) is supported for the central job overview by default. Other external schedulers may be connected on a project basis. End of the note.	Central Job Overview
Job Monitoring	Enhanced	A flexible new monitoring configuration for SMSE jobs allows you to add externally managed jobs and job chains (by header) as monitoring objects. Data is pulled from the external scheduler by means of a remote database connection. For active monitoring objects, you can view job details per job instance, including the job chain hierarchy (if applicable), in the job monitor. Note SAP Central Process Scheduling (SAP CPS)/SAP Business Process Automation (SAP BPA), is supported for SMSE job monitoring by default. Other SMSE-certified external schedulers may be connected on a project basis. End of the note.	Job Monitoring

Function

Type of Change

Description

More Information

Central Job Overview

New

If you use an external scheduler to schedule jobs, the job information is only available in the external scheduler. The Central Job Overview allows business users and IT administrators to select and view job data over the complete lifecycle, similar to the Job Overview (transaction SM37). The end user does not have to know any technical details about the external scheduler.

If the job is part of a job chain, hierarchical job chain information is also displayed. You can drill down to detailed information about any job in the chain.

To provide this overview, data is collected directly from the managed system and the external scheduler.

Note Note

SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood (SAP CPS)/ SAP Business Process Automation by Redwood (SAP BPA) is supported for the central job overview by default. Other external schedulers may be connected on a project basis.

End of the note.

Central Job Overview

Job Monitoring

Enhanced

A flexible new monitoring configuration for SMSE jobs allows you to add externally managed jobs and job chains (by header) as monitoring objects.

Data is pulled from the external scheduler by means of a remote database connection.

For active monitoring objects, you can view job details per job instance, including the job chain hierarchy (if applicable), in the job monitor.

Note Note

SAP Central Process Scheduling (SAP CPS)/SAP Business Process Automation (SAP BPA), is supported for SMSE job monitoring by default. Other SMSE-certified external schedulers may be connected on a project basis.

End of the note.

Job Monitoring