Running an Impact Analysis

Create a New Analysis Run

From the Home page, click on the “Impact Analysis” tile and click on “Create New Analysis Run”:

Step 1 – Basic Parameters

1. Choose the System Landscape.
2. Assign a name to the Analysis Run, and click “Next”.

*You can also create a new Analysis Run from within the Landscape configuration page – in this case the System Landscape will be pre-populated in the wizard.

*You can change the name of your Analysis Run later, if you wish.

Step 2 – Analysis Components

Select the components for the Analysis Run and click “Next”:

When running an analysis for a landscape with multiple Target Systems, each one can be selected / deselected as required. When Usage Data Analysis is activated for an analysis run, each Target System can have a different usage data source & period.

Note:
The “Stored Period” usage data source is dependent on having activated “continuous collection of usage data for that Target System in the System Landscape Setup.
The “Workload Monitor” usage data source is dependent on the ST03 data collection being activated in the Target System. For more information about setting up ST03 data collection, you can refer to SAP documentation.

*SAP Note 2369736 contains details of setting up the SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_PERFMONITOR job – this should be scheduled in client 000 of the Target System.

Step 3 – Analysis Source

You can select a variety of sources on which to base your analysis:

SAP Transports

Select transports (released or unreleased) in the Source System to analyze their potential impact on the Target System. Transports can be selected individually or based on filters & selection criteria such as owner & date range.

Transportable Objects

Select a list of standard or custom repository or dictionary objects in the Source System to analyze the impact of any hypothetical change to those objects – e.g. what dependent applications and/or interfaces would be impacted by a change to those objects.

SAP Support Packages

Select a list of individual SAP Support Packages or upload a SAP Maintenance Planner Stack XML File to analyze the impact of applying those Support Packages.

SAP Notes

Select a list of individual SAP Notes to analyze the impact of applying the corrections contained in those Notes. The SAP Notes must have been downloaded into SNOTE in the Source System, but they do not need to have been implemented.

ActiveControl Business Tasks

Select one or more ActiveControl Business Tasks in the Source System to analyze the impact of all the transports in those Business Tasks.

ActiveControl Projects

Select one or more ActiveControl Projects in the Source System to analyze the impact of all the transports in those Projects.

Once you have selected the Analysis Source, click “Next”:

Step 4 – Options

The final step of the wizard allows you to specify some additional options, including the ability to schedule this analysis run as a repeating periodic job.

Select “Start Analysis Immediately” to begin the Analysis Run:

*Scheduled runs will use the System Timezone of the Central System – this may differ from your User Timezone!

The Analysis Run starts and can be monitored under the “Active Analysis Runs” tab:

When the run completes successfully it can be seen under the “Completed Analysis Runs” tab:

For analysis runs with multiple Target Systems, the completed run shows as a single entry with a button to expand the individual Target System results:

*You can repeat an Analysis Run by clicking the “Rerun analysis” button on the “Completed Analysis Runs” tab – this will create a new run with the same parameters.