Data Consistency Management
Data consistency management checks the consistency of data between a source system and a destination system and restores it where necessary.
When certain events occur, such as a system crash, mass update, or change to the Customizing settings, you can find data consistency tasks and tools, check their suitability, and use them. The tools that are suggested depend on the particular event, the SAP product, and the business object.
Example
You have an integrated scenario that uses SAP ERP and SAP CRM. In SAP ERP, a mass update of material master data is performed. You want to know whether all of the updates in SAP ERP have been replicated correctly to SAP CRM for this event. For this purpose, you can use data consistency management.
Data consistency management provides tasks and tools for the required checks. It enables direct navigation to the corresponding transactions, check programs, and guidelines with Best Practices.
Implementation Considerations
The following prerequisites need to be fulfilled before you can use data consistency management:
You are authorized to use the tiles in the
Business Process Operations
section of the Fiori launchpad.You have been assigned the necessary role for data consistency management.
Data consistency monitoring objects have been defined in the business process monitoring setup.
There are alerts for key figures that were flagged as relevant for data consistency monitoring.
Features
Data Consistency Monitoring
Data consistency monitoring proactively ensures a reliable business process flow and data consistency.
You can switch between the Solutions
and the Business Processes
view.
Only those alerts are displayed that were flagged as relevant for data consistency monitoring. These alerts are a subgroup of the business process monitoring alerts.
You can use the business process monitoring functions to display and edit alerts. For more information, see Solutions and Business Processes.
Consistency Checks
To keep your data consistent, you can use the following tools:
Cross-Database Comparison
Check data consistency and compare data sources across various systems.
Internal Database Comparison
Compare tables within a system.
Consistency Check Report Scheduling Verification
Check which reports are used to check consistency.
GSS: Data Consistency Management
Select the tools and tasks to keep your data consistent.
Data Consistency Toolbox (Classic)
You perform tasks and determine tools to check the data consistency between a source and target system and restore it if required.
NoteThe data consistency toolbox (classic) can still be used, but the functions are replaced by the
GSS: Data Consistency Management
. For information, see the application help under http://help.sap.com/solutionmanager
for SAP Solution Manager 7.1 SP12 and earlier.End of the note.Data Quality
Integration with SAP Information Steward. You can use this tool to check data quality according to definable business rules, which can be applied to datasets. For more information, see http://help.sap.com/bois
.
Analysis Tools
To search for the causes of data inconsistencies, use the following tools:
GSS: Data Consistency Management
Select the tools to keep your data consistent.
Business Process Completeness Check
(BPCC)Monitor critical subprocesses of business processes and check if all process steps of a process instance have been executed successfully. The Business Process Completeness Check is part of the Exception Management. In the
Business Process Completeness Check
Process Flow
view, you can analyze errors in individual process steps. For more information, see Business Process Completeness Check.Transactional Correctness Check
The transactional correctness tool checks the transactional correctness of your ABAP programs.
End-to-End Trace
You switch to the root cause analysis to check the traces. For more information, see Trace Analysis.