‘Transport Import Date Analysis’ (0072) is an informational analyser that aims to provide Change & Release Managers with an indication of when Transports could be deployed into Production, based on the object contents and the usage of the top-level objects (ie Transactions, Programs) to which those objects roll up.
The output of the Analyser will present three suggested time windows for deploying the Transport(s) in the following 7-day period, based on when the top-level objects were not used in a previous time period (eg 30 days) as indicated by a production usage data retrieval program.
Ultimately, the aim of this Analyser is to help SAP Teams move to more Agile deployments – where transport deployments can be done more frequently based on actual usage of the top-level objects impacted by the objects in the transports to be deployed – and not just based on the more traditional time-window based deployment process (ie where it is not expected that Business users will be on the system).
Parameters
| EXCLUDE_DAY | (Optional) Can be used to exclude certain day(s) from the results. Ie if Customer does not want the Analyser to propose deployments on Weekends for example. This is done via a new 00NN_EXCLUDE_DAY parameter in table /BTI/TE_TVARV in the Domain Controller. |
| EXCLUDE_OBJECTS | (Optional) Can be used to exclude certain objects from the calulation. These are configured in existing /BTI/TE_ANLEXC table also being delivered as part of ActiveControl 9.00. |
| EXCLUDE_TIME_RANGE | (Optional) Can be used to exclude certain time windows from the results. Ie if Customer has a policy of never deploying between certain hours (eg 09:00 – 13:00) then this can be defined. This is done via a new 00NN_EXCLUDE_TIME parameter in table /BTI/TE_TVARV in the Domain Controller. |
| LEVEL | (Mandatory): Enter the number of levels that the calculation should roll up to see the Top-Level Objects. |
| USAGE_SOURCE | (Mandatory) Target Number for the production target ID (where the usage data is to be retrieved from) |
Configuration Steps
More information on this new Analyser – and instructions on how to configure it – can be found in this online Knowledge Article. The original Change Notes for this new analyser can also be found here and here.
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