This document provides information about new, changed, and deleted functions in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SPS 3.
The information provided here covers changes in SAP Solution Manager Configuration
(transaction SOLMAN_SETUP
).
A new window has been introduced: If you have the editing rights for a setup scenario, but specific rights for a certain activity are missing, the window opens to inform you about this. In the window, you can use the Update User Roles
action to create a list with the missing authorizations. You can send this list to your system administrator to enhance your user rights.
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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step | New | Step added to define the WebClient UI configuration | See step help text |
step | New | Step added to adapt the translation of user interface texts in the SAP system | See step help text |
step | New | Step added to configure the search according to Requirements Management needs and its transaction types | See step help text |
activity | New | Automatic activity added to check whether the status of the Embedded Search scenario is finished | See |
activity | New | Manual activity added to define the settings that are necessary to extract the data of CRM templates for SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search | See |
activity | Changed | Link to SAP PPM scenario added to enable you to configure the settings for integrating SAP Portfolio and Project Management with your scenario | See |
step Activities:
| Deleted |
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step | New | Step added to react to additional use cases and system upgrades | See step help text |
step | New | Step added to enable you to use the IT requirement without maintaining scope items | See step help text |
step | New | Step added to specify how flexibly you want to manage the change cycle assignment in your IT requirement | See step help text |
step | New | Step added to enable the integration of solution documentation | See step help text |
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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| New | When the default customizing predefined by SAP has been changed in the meantime, or if your previous copy of it was incomplete, you can use this activity to update and complete your own customizing. | See |
| New | This activity allows you to read the log for the copying and updating of the customizing at any time. | See |
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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| Changed | Improved user experience in the guided procedure. |
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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| Changed | The "test management" and "test repository" in SAP Solution Manager was renamed to "test suite", in the UIs and in the documentation. | |
Partner Test Management | New | A new guided procedure has been introduced for Partner Test Management. |
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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Quality Gate Management | |||
| New | Introducing a guided procedure for Quality Gate Management | |
Change Request Management | |||
| New | BAdI added to allow you to define your own methods for plugging into the processing logic of CSOL and thus customize its behavior. Enhancement | See |
Activities:
| Changed | Converted into optional activities | |
activity | Changed | Converted into optional activities | |
activity | Changed | Change of activity name; old name: | |
activity | New | Automatic activity added to check whether the status of the Embedded Search scenario is finished | See |
activity | New | Manual activity added to define the settings that are necessary to extract the data of CRM templates for SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search. | See |
activity | New | Link to SAP PPM scenario added to enable you to configure the settings for integrating SAP Portfolio and Project Management with your scenario | See |
Activities:
| Deleted | Activities have been removed. | |
step | New | Step added to enable you to use the request for change without maintaining scope items | See step help text |
step | New | Step added to specify how flexibly you want to manage the change cycle assignment in your request for change | See step help text |
step | New | Step added to enable the integration of solution documentation | See step help text |
step | New | Step added to make the assignment of transport requests to change documents mandatory for urgent changes, normal changes, and defect corrections | See step help text |
step | New | Step added to configure the settings for assigning and maintaining consistency checks to improve the process of a normal change | See step help text |
Managed System Setup | |||
step | Changed | Change of step name; old name: | |
activity | New | Manual activity added to copy the system for the pre-production system | See |
step | Changed | Change of step name; old name: Create User and Roles | |
step | Changed | Change of step name; old name: | |
activity | New | BAdI added to allow you to define your own methods for plugging into the processing logic of CSOL and thus customize its behavior. Enhancement | See |
step | New | Step added to make the required settings to configure the transport-related checks:
| See |
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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Exception Management | |||
| New | This scenario has been added. The configuration of single-step exceptions has been moved from the application to | See help texts |
EarlyWatch Alert Management | |||
| Changed | In the | See step help text |
| New | You can check the status of the self-diagnosis function | See step help text |
step | Changed | You can change the data collection settings and transfer them to the managed system. | See step help text |
| Changed | You can adapt the subject and body text of the e-mail template to your needs. | See step help text |
Interfaces and Connection | |||
step | Changed | In the What you configure in this step is now specific to Interface and Connection Monitoring. This configuration has no impact on other applications. | See step help text |
Job Monitoring | |||
| New | If you have added a lot of monitored objects and you want to monitor them, you can generate and activate them together by selecting all of the required objects and clicking on | See step help text |
Business Intelligence | |||
| New | If you have added a lot of monitored objects and you want to monitor them, you can generate and activate them together by selecting all of the required objects and clicking on | See step help text |
Data Readiness | |||
| New | A new guided procedure is introduced for Data Readiness Monitoring | |
Process Integration | |||
| New | You can disable monitoring and alerting or maintain specific settings for a Process Integration (PI) domain or a PI technical system during specific work modes such as planned downtime or regular system maintenance. |
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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activity | New | Automatic activity added to check whether the status of the Embedded Search scenario is finished | See |
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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step | New | The In this step, you configure the E2E monitoring and alerting infrastructure for the Business Process Operations tools. | See step help texts |
step | New | The In this step, you can execute activities in case of a system downtime, for example, you can activate or deactivate monitoring for the solution. | See step help texts |
Function | Type of Change | Description | More Information |
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Project Management Enablement | New | This function was previously included in the guided procedures for the solution documentation content activation. It now is a separate activity to be executed after the content activation, in SAP Solution Manager 7.2. | Guide for Solution Documentation Content Activation, at http://service.sap.com/instguides |
Business Process Operations Migration | New | After an upgrade from SAP Solution Manager 7.1 to SAP Solution Manager 7.2, this guided procedure leads you through steps that are necessary for the migration of business process operations data created in the SAP Solution Manager 7.1 versions of Business Process Analytics, Business Process Operations dashboards, or dependency diagrams to the new version of SAP Solution Manager. | See step help texts |