Table of Content
What You’ll Learn
- Understand the common challenges faced during the migration from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, with a focus on code remediation.
- Learn how Panaya’s Automatic Code Correction Solution can simplify and accelerate the remediation process for custom code.
- Gain insights into the specific categories of code issues that need remediation, such as HANA Syntax, Cloned Programs, References to Obsolete Functions, S/4HANA Data Model Changes, and Pseudo-Comments.
- Discover how Panaya’s solution works, from identifying necessary corrections to deploying them with minimal effort.
- Explore the advantages of using automatic remediation, including time savings, error reduction, and freeing up developers for more value-added tasks.
Are you considering converting your SAP ECC ERP system to SAP S/4HANA but feeling overwhelmed by all the unknowns? You are not alone. A poll conducted by SAPInsider in May 2022 (see fig. 1) shows that many challenges must be faced when moving to SAP S/4HANA, including one of the most mysterious ones, which is the code remediation required to make your customizations S/4HANA compatible.
The good news is that there is a solution that can easily clarify what needs to be done. You can effortlessly know which customizations require code remediation, what kind of remediation is required, and even have many code adjustments made automatically. This allows you to know exactly what custom components need to be corrected and what type of corrections need to be applied. For common but high-volume, repetitive corrections, like SQL Syntax issues, these can be corrected automatically, freeing your developers from hundreds or even thousands of hours of monotonous, tedious work.
Automatic Code Remediation
Panaya’s Automatic Code Correction Solution provides automatic code remediation for many repetitive fixes required across your custom code. If desired, you can review and validate the proposed changes before accepting and deploying them to your development system. These corrections will save time, eliminate human errors, and free your developers from this tedious work to focus on more value-add deliverables.
Panaya’s S/4Convert tool will create a Correction Task for each component that requires code remediation. Each correction may have one or more code issues which may be associated with an auto-correction. Panaya calculates the code fix and evaluates the efficacy of the new code. Developers can safely accept the automatic corrections provided by Panaya, as these pose zero risk to a developer. These fixes, of which there are typically thousands, can be accepted and deployed together. IT can review more complex auto-corrections and then accept and deploy them. Regardless of the deployment method, each task is marked as complete so that the project can be tracked and related unit tests, also auto-generated by Panaya, can begin. “Manual” corrections, too complex to identify an auto-fix correct, are also created and assigned to the appropriate development resources. These corrections are also tracked to completion so that you can track and monitor a complete conversion project plan.
Panaya’s Automatic Code Correction solution provides automatic remediations for the following categories:
- HANA Syntax – SQL syntax within custom components, built for the initial RDBMS, that will not run within SAP’s HANA database, a requirement for S/4HANA.
- Cloned Programs – Custom versions of standard SAP programs that will fail if the underlying SAP program is changed in S/4HANA.
- References to Obsolete Functions – Functions that are no longer supported by SAP and may be deprecated at any time. Code referencing these functions are at risk and should leverage the newer versions and their parameters.
- S/4HANA Data Model Changes – Operations related to simplified database objects, replaced tables, and changed field lengths.
- Pseudo-Comments – Code notations recommended by SAP tools to simply certain error handling scenarios.
Meeting The Challenge
Migrating to SAP S/4HANA is a daunting project with many challenges, but there are solutions available that will remove the mystery and even accelerate your S/4HANA Conversion project. When adapting your custom code for S/4HANA, Panaya will let you know exactly what code needs to be corrected, what the required correction should be and manages the corrections in a SaaS project model where you can track correction and testing progress. In many cases, Panaya will generate the exact syntax of the change so you can deploy these fixes with near zero effort.
Key Takeaways
- Panaya’s Automatic Code Correction Solution simplifies the process of making custom code S/4HANA compatible by identifying and automatically correcting common issues.
- Automatic corrections save hundreds or thousands of hours of developer time, reduce human errors, and ensure accurate code remediation.
- Panaya handles various categories of code issues, including SQL syntax, cloned programs, obsolete functions, data model changes, and pseudo-comments.
- The solution generates correction tasks, allowing developers to review and validate changes before deploying them, ensuring a smooth and risk-free process.
- Panaya’s SaaS project model tracks correction and testing progress, providing visibility and control over the entire migration project.
- By automating repetitive and tedious tasks, developers can focus on more strategic and value-added activities, enhancing overall project outcomes.
- Automatic code remediation ensures that your SAP system is ready for future updates and innovations, maintaining long-term stability and efficiency.