Day: February 3, 2018

Purpose:

The purpose of this document is to up-grade SAP Business Objects Application from 4.2 SP3 to SAP Business Objects Application from 4.2 SP5

Overview: 

Environment Details:-

Operating system: Windows Server 2008 64 Bit

Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 R2

Web Application: Tomcat 8

SAP Business Objects Tools: SAP Business Objects BI Platform for Enterprise 4.2

Installation & Configuration steps to upgrade BI4.2 SP3 to BI4.2 SP5

Pre Installation Check List:

* Backup of file-store, tomcat configuration files & Data base
* Backup of CMS & Audit metadata

* Backup of Following Configuration Files available at Tomcat (Web Tier) & BOBJ Layer (Management Tier & Processing Tier):

* web.xml
* server.xml
* BILaunchpad.properties
* Global.properties (If you have done any changes)

* Make a note of recurring instance available in current environment

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* Pause all instance before doing any upgrade activity

Post Installation Check List:

* Installation of SAP BO 4.2 SP5
* Validate your configuration with respect to below points:

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* SSO (SAP, Windows AD, LDAP, & Others like Oracle SIEBEL)
* Start all paused instances and check the status after schedule.

* Validate your reports available in your environment

SAP Business Objects Platform Services 4.x SPxx PAM Documents:

1338845 – How to find Product Availability Matrix (PAM) / Supported Platforms Document for SAP BusinessObjects Products

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1338845

1868888 – Where to find Support Packages or Patches for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 3.x and 4.x? [Video]

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1868888

SCN Thread related to Pre-requisite:-

Link:

http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2014/07/27/sap-businessobjects-xi-31bi-4x-installation-prerequisites-and-best-practices-linuxunix

http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2014/05/01/sap-businessobjects-installation-pre-requisites

Software Path in SAP Market Place:-  Please refer above KBA for software detail

Up gradation & Configuration Documents:

When the prerequisite system check completes successfully, click Next

On the “SAP BusinessObjects BI platform services 4.2 SP5 setup” page, click Next.

Accept the License Agreement, and click Next.

Accept License Agreement and CLick on Next

Type a password for the CMS Administrator account, and click Next

Click on Standard Installation (By Default), You can go for Phase Wise as well.

Click on Deploy web application and Click On Next

To start the installation, click Next.

Installation is in progress

Updating Repository – Installation is in progress

Installation Completed Successfully – Finish

Relevant Systems

These enhancements were successfully implemented in the following systems:

* SAP Business Objects Platform Services 4.2

This document is relevant for:

* SAP Business Objects Administrator

Reference Material:

Upgrade Guide:

http://help.sap.com/bobip

Installation, Upgrade, Deployment:

https://websmp204.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/012002523100008807082015E/sbo41sp6_sp_update_en.pdf

SAP BusinessObjects What’s New Collection:

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-60001

How to Upgrade to BI4.0

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/How+to+Upgrade+to+BI4.0

All you need to know before upgrading to BI4.0

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/All+you+need+to+know+before+upgrading+to+BI4.0

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Upgrade – Overview

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-56525

Official Product Tutorials – SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.x

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8292

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1 Product Availability Matrix:

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/pam?hash=pvnr%3D67837800100900006540

SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 SP5 What’s New

https://help.sap.com/viewer/09fe9f205ee047d48d58665649fc4fae/4.2.5/en-US

Fixed Issue in BI 4.2 SP5

https://help.sap.com/http.svc/rc/fb5b1b99f2f944f5807051af439f0bf3/4.2.5/en-US/sbo42sp5_fix_issues_final.pdf

SNotes:

1338845 – How to find Product Availability Matrix (PAM) / Supported Platforms Document for SAP BusinessObjects Products

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1338845

1868888 – Where to find Support Packages or Patches for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 3.x and 4.x? [Video]

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1868888

1739722 Upgrade Management Tool – Prerequisites

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1739722

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1331062

1654423 Migrations fails or take too long when using SAP BusinessObjects Upgrade Management Tool

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1654423

1804414 How to increase Upgrade Management Tool timeout?

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1804414

1863600 – How does session management work with SAP BI Platform 4.0 web application clients?

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1863600

1837122 – How to increase session timeout value for BI Launchpad and CMC in BI 4.0

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1837122

1950573 – Is it Necessary to Split the Adaptive Job Server in BI 4.x?

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1950573

Note 1768713:Crystal report when exported to PDF displays in wrong font in BOE XI 3.1

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1768713

2144559 Maintenance/Forward Fit Strategy and Schedule for BOE XI3.1 and BI4.x

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2144559

1724610 How to check the version of SAP BI 4.x installed on UNIX environment

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1724610

1613846 How to find which fixes are installed on BI 4.x in a Windows environment

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1613846

1739722 – Upgrade Management Tool – Prerequisites

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1739722

1904814 – Best practices for a successful migration to BI4 using the upgrade management tool

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1904814

2047063 – Promotion management services show “The service did not start” on adaptive processing server (APS ) “running with errors”

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2047063

1602088 – Which version number corresponds to which patch / SP for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x ?

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1602088

2109790 – Error: ‘The action cannot be performed’ when scheduling Webi documents created against unx universes and data tracking is enabled

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2109790

2297866 – Tomcat8 is no longer to use Permsize and MaxPermsize

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2297866

2277129 – Unable to access BI Administrators’ Cockpit using https in BI 4.2

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2277129

2266031 – Explorer web application fails to start in Tomcat 8 after configuring for Windows AD SSO in BI 4.2

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2266031

2228083 – BI 4.2 – Tomcat 8 cannot startup when Wily Introscope Agent 9.1.0.2 is configured

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2228083

2112338 – List of Bundled Tomcat and JVM versions shipped with each (support pack) SP of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0/4.¼.2

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2112338

2297866 – Tomcat8 is no longer to use Permsize and MaxPermsize

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2297866

 

2277129 – Unable to access BI Administrators’ Cockpit using https in BI 4.2

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2277129

2266031 – Explorer web application fails to start in Tomcat 8 after configuring for Windows AD SSO in BI 4.2

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2266031

2228083 – BI 4.2 – Tomcat 8 cannot startup when Wily Introscope Agent 9.1.0.2 is configured

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2228083

2112338 – List of Bundled Tomcat and JVM versions shipped with each (support pack) SP of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0/4.¼.2

https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2112338

Updating SAP BusinessObjects BI4.0 or SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 into SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 requires a new License Key

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-70095

Video ( SCN recoded webinar & YouTube):

SAP BI 4.1 – Solution Expert Webinars

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-56308

BI Upgrade: A Guided Tour of Online Resources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWcxShmqVe0&list=PLufF7pZxICBiJqcdJv-L1hVn8ZiWh70kk

Upgrade Process: Moving from BusinessObjects XI Release 2/3.1 and BI 4.0 to BI 4.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWNhWNsnMZI

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Sizing and Virtualization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_TJXdfAH-Q

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Installation and Patching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvj_riui50Q

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Sizing and Virtualization

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Installation and Patching

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Upgrade and Update – Best Practices

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWNhWNsnMZI

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# What is Financial Closing Cockpit?

The Financial Closing Cockpit is an application that enables you to create a structured interface for executing transactions and programs that form part of complex processes, such as closing processes. The structural layout supports processes within an organizational structure, such as a company code, as well as scenarios affecting multiple organizational structures.

# Financial Closing Cockpit Usage Scenario

* When activities recur periodically
* When more than one person responsible is involved
* When the activities are performed within a process that has a fixed chronological sequence or is determined by dependencies
* When the activities need to be supported by a shared, uniform interface for all involved
* When the status of all periodic activities must be documented and made transparent and available for all parties involved
* When the closing tasks are documented for later checks
* The FCC allows all financial close stakeholders to set a manual status for a task, document whether the task has been checked, and manually confirm that a transaction has been performed.

# Financial Closing Cockpit Options

* Hierarchies to display the organizational objects involved in the closing process
* A task list template based on the organizational structure
* A detailed view of the characteristic values of the individual hierarchy levels used in the task list template
* Task lists that are derived from the task list template
* A list display in which all tasks to be managed or executed from the respective task list are made available for processing or for monitoring the progress of the task
* A monitor that provides an overview of the sequence of tasks and their status, dependencies, and critical paths in graphical form
* Detailed information for evaluating the technical settings of tasks and analysing background programs (spool, job log information)
* Dependencies for displaying the conditions that are prerequisite to processing individual tasks

# Financial Closing Cockpit — Configuration & Execution

* Create template: Create uniform template for the closing process.

You create a template with the following steps:

* Choose Template/Task List → Create → Create Template.

* Define a 10 – character technical key for your template.
* Select one of the organizational hierarchies from the Closing Hierarchy field. These hierarchies allow you to organize the closing process according to organizational structures. This means that the special features of individual, independent accounting units can be taken into account during closing. For example, at company code level. This enables you to avoid applying identical process steps to all company codes. Standard hierarchies are provided in the Financial Closing Cockpit.
* Enter a description for the new template.
* The time-dependent selection variables that are relevant for the template are now displayed in the template header.
* The system generates a proposal for a task list template in accordance with the selected hierarchies using all organizational objects available in the system. For example, controlling areas with assigned company codes, including any sub-folders defined.
* Task folders allow you to arrange organizational levels into substructures in the task list template. Default values for task folders can be stored as sub-folders in the generic maintenance of the organizational levels.

* Create tasks: Define individual activities based on chronological sequence in org. structures.

In the Financial Closing Cockpit, you can access the required transaction or background processing for programs and flow definitions directly from the central interface (transaction FCLOCO).

Types of Tasks

The following types of tasks are available in the Financial Closing Cockpit:

* Programs with program variants (background processing): Standard programs are available for processing activities in the background. If these programs are included in the task list template with corresponding parameters (that is, with a variant), you can start background processing directly from the FCC. Without a program variant, you can start and process the report in the task list of the FCC.
* Transactions: Start online transactions manually from the task list and go directly from the FCC to the relevant application transaction. Use these tasks only as reminders or milestones.
* Flow Definition: Use flow definitions to process multiple programs automatically without interruption. You combine such programs with variants to form a logical flow chain with predecessor and successor relationships.
* SAP CPS: Create and schedule SAP Central Process Scheduling application by Redwood (SAP CPS) tasks to process tasks on other systems.
* Remote Job, – Transaction, – Program, – Flow Definition: You can create these activities are run in remote systems.
* External Job: Create tasks that you use to monitor the jobs that are created or scheduled in a remote or the local system using external schedulers. Note that tasks with this task type only retrieve information from systems. You cannot use them to perform any closing operations.

* Define dependencies: Define upstream programs and transactions for the program in the template. Define program sequences in the preceding task relationship.
* Create task list: Derive concrete task lists from template, including parameter settings for variables of program variants.

To perform programs included in a task list, you need to specify variant values. With the separation of the task list template from the task list, you can define the structured process flow as a generic template and then make a task list available for processing with specific parameter values.

The task list generated from the template automatically updates the time-related program parameters of the selection variants by entering corresponding header information in the task list.

To create a task list, proceed as follows:

* Choose Template/Task List → Open and select a template for which the Periodic Task List will be created. From the current task list template, the system creates a task list of the same name.
* Choose Template/Task List → Create Periodic Task List. From the current task list template, the system creates a task list of the same name. Enter values for the parameters Key Date, Fiscal Year, and Posting Period for this task list.
* All the task lists created are listed under the relevant templates by key date.
* Based on the closing type selected in the task list, the system transfers from the task list template to the task list only those activities permitted in the task definition for that closing type.
* Before you can use the task list in the application, you must release it. To release the task list, choose the Released entry in the Status field.

* Release task list: Transfer configured task list to application.

Once the task list has been released, the tasks defined in the task list are selected and scheduled in the Financial Closing Cockpit.

* Financial Closing Cockpit: Dependencies

Programs and transactions that have been included in the task list template using chronological process steps as part of an organizational structure frequently involve business-related or system-related dependencies. These dependencies need to be portrayed for the process flow to be processed smoothly

In the configuration of the Financial Closing Cockpit, these predecessor relationships can be displayed under the Dependencies tab. When you enter a relationship between programs and transactions, the relationship is checked during subsequent processing, to ensure that the correct sequence is applied. The combination of relationships is managed from the viewpoint of the successor. In this way, an activity can have more than one predecessor. You can insert complete task folders as a task dependency. All tasks within the folder will then be defined as dependent on the specific closing task.

* Execution of Tasks with Dependencies

In the monitor, you can display your scheduled tasks and identify the ones that are to be processed automatically or manually.

The connecting lines between tasks show the dependencies (“predecessor” →”successor” jobs).

* Error Analysis

In the list display, you can display all the details for the task along with its processing status.

You can navigate directly to the detail list for a task at any time.

Check or Process Objects

You can immediately check or process the following objects in the detail list:

– Spool request

– Job log

– Batch input session

Note: Certification in Financial Closing Cockpit and good SAP training documents on the subject is the base of this article.

Purpose of this article is to make Financial Closing Cockpit functionalities to larger audience.

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