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Procedure documentationCreate New Analyses

Procedure

You can create a decommissioning analysis project to schedule background jobs that gather and analyze information about the custom code objects in your system landscape from your custom code library.

  1. Under New Analysis, choose Create New Analysis.

  2. In the Create New Analysis screen area, enter basic information about the analysis and set a decommissioning target, that is, either the number of objects (in the Count field) or percentage (in the Percentage field) of total objects you want to attempt to decommission. This value is used to measure the success of the decommissioning project.

  3. You have the following options:

    • If you previously created and saved an analysis, you can use the settings of the old analysis as the basis for the new analysis. In the Saved Settings drop-down list, select the analysis you want to use and choose Save & Start Analysis.

    • If you want to create a completely new analysis, continue to the next step.

  4. In the Settings screen area, enter the desired values in the corresponding fields:

    Note Note

    Mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk (*).

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    • Development Systems

      The development systems in your landscape that you want to include.

      You can use the enhancement spot AGS DECOM SYSTEMS to restrict the lists of systems to be displayed, that is, both development and statistical systems.

    • Statistical Systems

      The quality systems and productive systems in your landscape from which you want to collect usage statistics. Depending on your landscape, these might be the same as your lead systems.

    Under Generic Data:

    • Analysis Period

      The period of time from which objects are considered in the analysis.

    • Wait Time

      After the analysis is complete, the cockpit monitors the custom code objects that have been identified as candidates for decommissioning for the specified wait time. During this waiting period, if the selected object is used, the Used Status turns red. Otherwise, the status remains green, indicating that the object is still recommended for decommissioning.

    • Additional Options

      You can specify whether you want the analysis owner to receive an email notification when an object is used during the waiting period. You can also specify whether users must create a backup transport before objects can be decommissioned.

      Note Note

      In order to be able to send an email directly to the analysis owner when an object was used during the waiting period, the owner has to be maintained as an owner in custom code management and the SAP user in Solution Manager in the owner data as well. The email address will be taken from the SAP user data.

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  5. Under Analysis Data, you specify the type of objects you want to identify as potential candidates for decommissioning. You have the following options:

    • To use SAP standard analyses, select Standard and select one of the analyses types listed. Depending on the analysis type you select, you have to enter some additional values.

      • Objects not used in any statistical systems

        The system classifies an object as not used, if the object was found by the CCLM object collector in at least one of the statistical systems and in at least one of the development systems and if no usage data exists for this object with regard to any of the statistical systems.

        Specify the analysis by selecting a date for Object created prior to and a usage frequency of the object in the Used less than ... times field.

      • Objects not active in any statistical systems

        The system classifies an object as not active, if the object was found by the CCLM object collector in at least one of the development systems but was not found in any statistical system, for example a productive system.

        Specify the analysis by selecting a date for Object created prior to.

      • Objects similar to SAP Standard (select additional data below)

        The system classifies an object as a similar object, a so-called clone, if the object was found by the CCLM object collector in at least one statistical system or development system and if the object was found by the CCLM similarity collector in at least one of the development systems or statistical systems.

        If you select Objects similar to SAP standard, you must specify a similarity percentage in the Similarity Percentage (%) Greater Than field. If you set this value to 90%, all custom code objects that are at least 90% identical to an SAP standard object are identified as candidates for decommissioning.

    • To create your own custom analysis, select Other and enter the values you want in the corresponding fields.

      The system classifies an object for this selection, if the object was found by the CCLM object collector in at least one statistical system or development system.

  6. Under Additional Attributes, you can specify attributes and values of objects to further define the scope of the analysis.

  7. Click Save & Start Analysis to confirm your entries.