Delete Obsolete Combinations (CVCs)

[Former Member]

Hi

Anyone worked on SCM 5.1 or 7.0 System ? If so, on the new functionality in MC62, to delete Obsolete Combinations ?

We are planning just to upgrade to 7.0 because of this feature. If anyone used it, I want to clarify my doubts.

1) will this option generate (before deletion itself) a list of all CVCs which have no data at all ?

2) Does It show only if all KFs should have no data ? or is there a chance to select few KFs not having data and display them for deletion (no numbers in history/future for the KFs) ?

For Ex: If KFs A/B/C not having data and if other KFs have some data, we don't care, we can delete the A/B/C).

3) Can we expect after every month roll over, to generate some 100s to be deleted, as those CVCs fall out of Initialized period, so we want to delete them. we generate new CVCs around 2000 every month. So I expect atleast 250 falling out of initialised horizon every month.

Can anyone explain these 3 features to me..

Thanks

Venkat

[Former Member]

Hello Guru Charan,

Thanks for the info.

Venkat

[Former Member]

I am also interested in point 2. As we also don't care about some of the key figures and are happy to delete if key figures A/B/C/D are 0 or blank.

Is there any way to adjust the standard critera so we can specify which key figures it looks at?

it raises another quiestion.. is a zero value considered blank? or will it only be flagged as obsolete if the value is NULL (Blank)

[Former Member]

Is there any way to adjust the standard critera so we can specify which key figures it looks at?

Of course, there is. Basically, SAP is open-source once you buy it. You can see the code of every standard functionality. Just try it with an ABAPer. It is possible !

it raises another quiestion.. is a zero value considered blank? or will it only be flagged as obsolete if the value is NULL (Blank)

In the key-figure settings, you have something called "Zero Allowed". For a specific key-figure, if the Zero is allowed, then, no where it can be blank. For a key-figure, if Zero is not allowed, then, you see blank. So, it checks accordingly based on these. I hope you are getting my point.

Regards,

Gurucharan.

[Former Member]

Hello Guru Charan,

Thanks for the info.

Venkat

[Former Member]

Hi Venkat. Here are the answers:

1) will this option generate (before deletion itself) a list of all CVCs which have no data at all ?

Yes, it does generate all the combinations and you can delete them selectively, or all in a go.

2) Does It show only if all KFs should have no data ? or is there a chance to select few KFs not having data and display them for deletion (no numbers in history/future for the KFs) ? 

No, it doesn' work exclusively for a key-figure. It works on all the key-figures. The obsolete combinations according to this functionality are those which have no data for any of the key-figure in any time-bucket.

3) Can we expect after every month roll over, to generate some 100s to be deleted, as those CVCs fall out of Initialized period, so we want to delete them. we generate new CVCs around 2000 every month. So I expect atleast 250 falling out of initialised horizon every month.

This can be done, but you need to write a custom program for this. And precisely, I am unable to understand this query of yours.

With this said, I, personally don't think to upgrade to the latest version only because we have this functionality.

Regards,

Guru Charan.