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A TBOM (Technical Bill of Materials) contains all the objects involved in a transaction. The Business Process Change Analyzer uses TBOMs to determine whether a transaction is affected by a change or not. In order to be able to run the Business Process Change Analyzer usefully, you therefore have to create a TBOM for each transaction that you use in your scenarios, processes and process steps.

Note Note

You can only create TBOMs for executables of the type: transaction.

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Prerequisites

You have created a Business Process Hierarchy. You have allocated transactions to the relevant nodes.

Procedure

  1. In the Business Process Hierarchy, open the attributes for the transaction for which you want to create a TBOM.

    1. In the Test Management work center, choose the Test Preparation view.

    2. Under Test Preparation Views, select whether to process projects or solutions.

    3. Select the project or solution you require.

      The Business Process Hierarchy opens.

    4. Under the business scenario, choose the node whose transaction or transactions you want to process.

    5. On the Transactions tab, select the transaction that you want to process.

    6. Choose Attributes.

  2. Choose the TBOM tab.

  3. Check the managed system

  4. Choose Create TBOM.

  5. If necessary, enter a description.

    By default, the description consists of the following information:

    [Project or solution ID]-[node text]-[component]-[type]-[transaction name]

    Note Note

    You can only enter a different description if the user parameter AGS_BPCA_TBOM_EXPERT has a value greater than 0 for your user.

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  6. Choose the way that you want to create your TBOM. You can also combine the creation options. For further information about the creation options, see Technical Bill of Materials (TBOM).

    • Dynamic:

      The associated transaction is called via the corresponding RFC user in the managed system. You must be authorized to execute the transaction in the managed system. Enter the data required for the transaction there.

      All objects involved in the transaction are entered in the background and copied to the TBOM once the transaction is complete.

      Close the transaction by pressing Shift+F3 or clicking Exit. If you end the transaction in any other way, no TBOM is created.

      Note Note

      Generally, completing the transaction results in new data records in the managed system. Take note of this if you create the TBOM in a production system.

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    • Static:

      In static generation, the transaction is not called. The system uses an environment analysis to determine which objects are involved in the transaction. You therefore do not require any authorizations in the managed system. The result is not as precise as with dynamic generation.

      If your user's user parameter AGS_BPCA_TBOM_EXPERT has a value of 3 (or above), you can specify the branching level you require during static generation. By default, the branching level is set to 3. Values from 1 to 4 are possible.

  7. Confirm your entries.

    After you create the TBOM, a confirmation message appears.

Result

A current TBOM is now allocated to the transaction.

You can add further, subordinate TBOMs to the TBOM.