Several question on activation and transporting

[Former Member]

Hello all,

(1) Read some thread and got some info from the EHP Tech backoffice about the transporting the activated BF in EHP.

In a sandbox system, created a transport, and it contain object 'R3TR SF02 A' - does it mean 'all and ONLY the activated BF'?

If I import this into the next landscape, how does it work -does it calls SFW5 and activate ONLY the activated BF from the source landscape? So the activation runtime will be the same

(2) What is the most efficient way of activating several BF?

- check all the dependency first?

- can you include the pre-req BF with the base BF? i.e. put them all into single activation?

- is there a disadvantage/advantage of doing it all in one go, or should we put into several slices?

Thanks,

Terry

[former_member288881 · Accepted solution]

Hi Terry,

with EHP5 SAP plans to offer some reversable business functions. In EHP4 this is not possible.

Best regards,

Christoph

[ralf_henning]

Hi Terry,

The general idea is to distribute SwitchFramework settings from one system to one or more others.

In case of successful import, souce and target systems SFW settings are identically configured. Means, the same Business Fucnction Set is selected and the same business functions will be activated.

Transport object SF02 transports information about the selected Business Function Set and all activated Business Functions.

At target system, after checking some preconditions, the BfSet will be selected and each BF will be activated. (localy again)

Preconditions to be checked:

Example 1.

Lets say, the transport requests to activate Bf1 and Bf2. At Target system Bf3 is still active before.

If Bf3 is classified as none reverible, the transport will be refused.

Sollution: BF3 needs to be activatred at source system. Then transport the settings together with Bf1 as well as Bf2

If Bf3 is classified as reversible, it will be deactivated.

Example 2.

Lets say, the transport requests to select Business Function Set BFS1. At target system, BFS2 is still selected. BusinessFunction BF3 is still active.

If Business Function BF3 is classified as none reversible and if it's NOT part of BFS1, the transport will be refused.

If its classified as reversible, it will be deactivated.

Its recommended to activate BFs at a central system and distribute theese settings via transport. Don't mix local activation and transportation tó avoid confusion / malfunctions / refused transports.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards, Ralf

[Former Member]

Hi Ralph,

Thank you for the very good explanation.

One last question - you mentioned 'reversible' BF - how do I identify if a BF is reversible or not?

Thanks,

Terry