Wednesday, April 16, 2025

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

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