Authorizations in SAP BW, HANA and BW/4HANA
Error analysis for authorizations (part 1)
It takes too long to read out the User and Permissions Management change notes? With a good archiving concept, you can improve performance. User and Permissions Management applications write change documents that increase significantly over time and can cause long wait times to read them. To reduce waiting times, you should archive the documents and set a logical index for key change documents. For this, however, you need a comprehensive overview of the storage locations and also of the evaluation possibilities and archiving scenarios. In the following we will show you how you can optimise the change document management of the user and permission management.
Which users have a specific role (PFCG)? To answer this question you start with the transaction PFCG - the mother of all transactions in the environment of SAP roles and authorizations. Select a role and click on the "Users" tab.
Use the authorisation route to identify proposed values for customer developments
For the ABAP stack, authorization profiles can be created either manually or by using the profile generator. However, the use of the profile generator is strongly recommended, since manual administration usually results in misconfigurations of authorizations. The profile generator guarantees that users only receive the authorizations assigned by their role. Concepts, processes and workflows must therefore be adapted to the use of the profile generator. There is no choice for the Java stack; here the J2EE authorization mechanism must be used. The User Management Engine offers options that go beyond the J2EE standard.
The website www.sap-corner.de offers a lot of useful information about SAP authorizations.
They have encountered a role that includes manually maintained organisational levels. Even if you correct the error manually in the role by manually deleting the manually maintained value of the organisation levels in the authorization object, the value in question is not drawn from the organisation level. The AGR_RESET_ORG_LEVELS report allows you to reset these values for the role. The manually maintained organisational data will be deleted, and only the values that have been maintained via the Origen button will be drawn.
With "Shortcut for SAP systems" you can automate the assignment of roles after a go-live.
For example, it includes functionality to check profile parameters or transport.
The freeware Scribble Papers puts an end to the confusing paper chaos. The tool is also suitable for storing, structuring and quickly finding text documents and text snippets of all kinds in addition to notes.
Controlling then usually reports directly to the company management.