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Closing cockpit lets you organize you closing procedures and have the process followed in real time, all automated tasks are carried out with a minimal delay, when a task requires user intervention, the user can be alerted from within closing cockpit via email, for example, and the alert can be escalated if it is not resolved in a timely manner. This allows fluid closing processes and greatly reduces the time it takes to close the books. SAP CPS is the scheduler which organizes and triggers all automated tasks in time across your system landscape, which can include SAP and non-SAP Systems. For example, when you previously had to run a job on a Unix system to populate a database with data after which the SAP team could proceed with the launch an ABAP to process that data the time between the two steps could be quite long; with SAP CPS the time between those two tasks can be automated and reduced to a second or less. When you have setup Closing Cockpit, you can follow SAP CPS Closing Cockpit-related tasks in both Closing Cockpit and SAP CPS.

Prerequisites

  • SAP Basis release 7.00 with one of the below Support Packages and relative SAP notes (if any):

    • SP 14 plus SAP notes 1112590, 1129030, 1154821

    • SP 15 plus SAP note 1129030

    • SP 16, no SAP notes needed

  • SAP Enhancement Package 3 for SAP ECC 6.0

  • A SAP Application connection to the SAP CPS RFC server

Note Note

Closing Cockpit integration requires the ProcessServerService.SAP.cc license key. If you want to be able to send email, you also need the Module.Mail license key.

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Procedure

Adding a SAP CPS task to a Closing Cockpit task list

  1. Open transaction CLOCOC.

  2. Open your task list or choose Other Template/Task List from the Template/task List menu and choose a task list.

  3. Choose the Edit button and make sure the name of your task list is followed by Change in the title bar of SAPGUI.

  4. Choose New Task from the context menu of a folder in the task list hierarchy.

  5. In the Closing Cockpit Display/Create/Change Task window choose Remote Task and select the name of a SAP CPS job definition in the Remote Task field (you may select any job definition the SAP CPS user is allowed to use).

  6. Fill in a Queue and parameters, if there are any, just as you would in SAP CPS.

Note Note

If you do not have the Remote Task field, then you do not have correctly set up a connection to a SAP CPS RFC server.

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Note Note

You can also create a task list template, import one from Closing Cockpit or Solution Manager, or create a task list. That is out of the scope of this guide. Please see the SAP related documentation for more information on closing cockpit.

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