Operating Scope of BW4/HANA system

During the setup of a new BW4/HANA system or converting of existing BW system to the BW4/HANA there is an Operating Scope needed to be set up. The operating scope describes which of the essential objects are installed to run the BW/4HANA system. By the objects it means any of BW TLOGO types – see here. However, the most important are objects like business content delivered versions of: IOs (DOBJ), InfoArea (DARE), Data Element (DELM), Planning function type (DPLT), Routine (DROU) etc. are usually being installed or better to say activated from technical business content.

What is going on technically when the BW4 scope is set? At first a table RSTCO_OBJ_SCOPE is populated with the BW objects that will be installed for what operating scope. Then the activation runs it-self. Afterwards another table, RSTCO_OBJ_ACT is populated with having information about all the objects whether particular object was installed correctly or not. It is a field STATUS with values SUCCESS - Activation was successful, ERROR - Activation failed, PARTACTIVE - Activation partly successful (domain RS_TCO_200_STATUS). The whole operation of the scope setting has a log that can be found in t-code SLG1 under object RSTCO_200.

What are the operating scopes that can be set up? At the currently the newest BW4/HANA 2023 the domain RS_TCO_OP_MODE_DOMAIN holds following values for the scope:

1        Lean Data Warehouse

4        BPC Planning only

16      Data Warehouse

 

The Operating Scope for BW/4HANA is 16 which means a full-blown data warehouse system.

More information:

Activating technical business content in BW4/HANA systems

Activating technical business content in BW4/HANA systems

As mentioned in my post What to consider while moving to BW/4HANA there is no t-code RSTCO_ADMIN (program RSTCO_ACTIVATION_ADMIN) available anymore in BW4/HANA based systems. This means that technical IOs like 0CURRENCY, 0LANGU, 0IOBJNM, 0INFOPROV, 0UNIT, etc. need to be activated differently.

There are dedicated tasks in t-code STC01 (Task Manager for technical Configuration, program STC_SCN_MAINTAIN) that need to run to be able to activate those IOs. The STCO1 is used to automate BW configuration tasks. Basically, it is a framework that runs tasks as jobs in background in order to achieve specifics system activities that otherwise needed to be run manually by scheduling those jobs. Particular tasks are organized into so called task lists. More on the t-code STC01 can be found here.

Sequence of tasks lists to activate the technical objects (technical business content) is following:

SAP_BW4_SET_OPERATION_SCOPE

SAP_BW4_SETUP_SIMPLE

SAP_BW4_AFTER_UPDATE

 

Activity of the IOs activation takes place in task list - SAP_BW4_SET_OPERATION_SCOPE and in particular in task called CL_RSTCO_200_CONF_TRIG_CONT - Set BW/4HANA Operating Scope. A number of activated IOs depends on the operating system scope.

More on operating scope can be found in this blog post.

 

More information:

Converting BW system to BW/4HANA

Automation for SAP BW configuration tasks

2665746 - Activating BW technical InfoObjects 0LANGU etc in BW/4HANA without RSTCO_ADMIN

2400585 - Collective Note & FAQ: SAP BW/4HANA Content (BW4CONT & BW4CONTB)