Workflow Upgrade 4.6C to ECC6 - manual settings during Cutover & Version

Tue Nov 2 10:20:22 EDT 2010

Sandy,

I'm sorry I cannot answer your specific questions below (I only have 
intermediate WF skillz).  However, each of your points sounds reasonable 
and shouldn't take too long to check and see if it is necessary once you 
have an upgraded test system to work with.  The real experts here can 
probably provide you with better feedback.

I only wanted to make the point that we upgraded to ECC 6.0 roughly 1.5 
years ago, and many of our workflows were trainwrecks afterward.  In fact 
it was at that point that I really learned workflow as just about every 
custom workflow we use broke after the upgrade.  Granted I work in a 
heavily customized environment (the land of 'Z'...) so I don't think this 
was so much a problem with SAP products, but of our own making. 
Incidentally, we didn't seem to have any problems with pure out-of-the-box 
SAP supplied workflows (which we mostly use in HR).

In any case, from my own experience (if I ever had to do this again), I 
would:
1. Pay particular attention to agent determination, especially if you are 
using custom agent determination rules and techniques
2. Seperate testing for new workflow instances versus existing instances 
(those workflow instances that already are running at the time of the 
upgrade).  Most of the problems we experienced were with already-running 
workflows - of which there were hundreds.

The 2 areas where we experienced the most problems were with travel 
approval and incoming invoice processing, which for us, are almost 
entirely custom everything (objects, events, programs, you name it...).

Just a friendly FYI, nothing more.

Michael McLey 
MBUSI - IT Parts & Administration 
Mercedes-Benz US International, Inc. 
1 Mercedes Drive 
Vance, AL 35490 
PHONE:  (205) 462 - 5239 
EMAIL:   michael.mcley at daimler.com   

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Workflow Upgrade 4.6C to ECC6 - manual settings during Cutover & Version

Hello Guys,

We are upgrading to ECC 6 from 4.6C and we are on release 701 & support 
pack SAPKB70106.

I would like to know which are the "Manual activities" that needs to done 
during cutover and WHEN should these should be done (eg. before ECC6 
upgade, or after ECC6 upgrade but before config/dev transports, or after 
config/dev transports).

I have looked on few threads and found the following info. Please correct 
me or add extra info if i have missed something:

1. Configure RFC destination & other mandatory options in Transaction 
SWU3.
2. Run Transaction SWU_OBUF to clear the runtime buffers before users 
start Testing.

I assume rest of changes would be imported with transports, but i have 
read through lot of SDN threads that all custom Workflow definitions needs 
to be ACTIVATED in each system (DEV - QAS- PRD) and custom BOR objects 
needs be REGENERATED in each system (DEV - QAS- PRD). Also, do I have 
manually set the agent assignement for Customer Task as GENERAL TASK in 
each system? Are above stated 3 steps needs to be manually done in each 
system or transports take care of them ? I am bit confused. Could anybody 
please advise me regarding the Manual Task/activities that needs to done 
in each system during cutover during WF upgrade from 4.6 C to ECC6.

Thanks for posting excellent stuff regarding the Workflow Upgrades on this 
mailing list. It really helped me in resolving most of my issues.

Thanks in advance

Kind Regards

Regards 

Sandy

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