Upgrade Assessment tasks with ABAP report

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

During the upgrade assessment,

I found that I have more than 1000 ABAP reports on my system.

I don't know which report is still be used and which report is not be used.

I need to keep and carry only the necessary ABAP reports to the new release.

How can I check this?

Have any tools or transaction code can help me to check?

Best regards,

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

There are two tools which is used to find out the active reports

RBE & ACE tools. For this you can contact to BASIS

[Former Member]

Hi,

Please correct me If I'm wrong but as far as I know, technical Upgrade should not delete any ABAP reports because the approach is upgrade the version of the system and not built new system and bring neccessary custom object from old system to new system.

What people normally do is they will list out which reports that are still used by user and which reports that aren't used anymore. Next, verify whether unused report is still needed or not by confirming to relevant users. Those that are confirmed not used will still exist in the system, however it should not included in the list of programs that should be tested after upgrade. To check execution history of the report, you can built a custom program based on ST03N logic provided your BASIS team already activated this monitoring function.

[Former Member]

Abraham, you are completly right and as you said Basis can help.

As I already mentioned, Key users and/or functional consultant are the people who must decide what reports will be "fixed" if needed after upgrade and what reports can be substituted by new standard reports, or create new reports from this new standard reports.

I don´t have idea how big is the company for this upgrade but this is the "normal" approach during upgrades.

[Former Member]

That should not be your business, as far as upgrade is concern, functional consultants are required for that job, Key users should advise about the reports not used anymore, and so on.

Put it this way, you check and found that in the last 8 months only 700 reports have been used, and you decided that the other 300 can be deleted or not taken for the functional upgrade but next month after upgrade is finished the CEO asks for a report that he ussualy runs once a year, what will you tell him?

Also, when upgrading Z reports some times needs to be adjusted, Who will do that? sometimes new version will bring new reports and probably most Z reports will be not needed anymore but Functional personel is who should know that.

Thant´s my opinion

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can find the Log of Customer Modifications to DEV. Environment objects in Table SMODILOG. or Go to Transaction SM37 give the from and to date and the username and u'll get the recently used ABAP Programs.

Thanks,

Sai