Create SAP user accounts for LiveCompare

LiveCompare requires a connection to each of the SAP systems for which it will perform comparisons or analyses. To support the connections, you will need to create an SAP account on each of the systems to be used with LiveCompare.

The SAP user accounts should be created using transaction SU01. You may wish to make these communication type accounts (for external RFC calls only) so they cannot be used to log in to SAP interactively. The appropriate SAP authorization roles for the accounts are provided as part of the LiveCompare installation.

Add roles to the SAP user accounts

A minimum set of authorizations required for LiveCompare are provided as part of the installation, in the form of SAP roles.

Role Description
/ICORP/LC_CORE_AUTHS3 LiveCompare core authorizations.
/ICORP/LC_BW_AUTHS LiveCompare BW authorizations.
/ICORP/LC_HR_AUTHS LiveCompare HR authorizations.

On each of your SAP systems, run transaction SU01, and edit the LiveCompare SAP user account. In the ‘Roles’ tab:

  • Assign the /ICORP/LC_CORE_AUTHS3 role to the LiveCompare SAP user account.

Additionally:

  • If the SAP BW component is installed, assign the /ICORP/LC_BW_AUTHS role.

  • If the SAP HR component is installed, assign the /ICORP/LC_HR_AUTHS role.

  • If you plan to use LiveCompare to search one or more SAP Solution Manager Test Repositories, assign the /ICORP/LC_SSM_AUTHS role.

SAP role modifications in this release of LiveCompare

Add LiveCompare authorizations to a custom role

If the LiveCompare SAP account uses a custom role rather than the supplied /ICORP/LC_CORE_AUTHS3 role, you will need to add the required LiveCompare authorizations to the custom role by carrying out the following steps.

  1. Run transaction PFCG to display the Role Maintenance screen.

Role Maintenance screen.

  1. Enter the name of your custom role and click Change tool button..

Change Roles screen.

  1. Select the Authorizations tab.

Change Roles screen.

  1. Click Change tool button. next to ‘Change Authorization Data’ to display the Change role: Authorizations screen.

Change role: Authorizations screen.

  1. Select Manually tool button. or choose Edit > Insert authorization(s) > Manual input from the menu. The following dialog is displayed.

Manual selection of authorizations dialog.

  1. Enter /ICORP/OBJ in the first Authorization Object field and click Tick tool button.. The screen changes to the following.

Change role: Authorizations screen.

  1. Expand the LiveCompare Authorization Object Class branch until the LiveCompare Components and Activity fields are displayed.

Change role: Authorizations screen.

  1. Click the Change icon next to the LiveCompare components field. The following dialog is displayed.

Define Values dialog.

  1. Select the CORE component and any other LiveCompare components that have been installed and click Save tool button..

Define Values dialog.

  1. Click the Change icon next to the Activity field. The following dialog is displayed.

Define Values dialog.

  1. Select Activity 16 - Execute and click Save tool button. .

  2. In the Change role: Authorizations screen, click Save tool button. to save your changes. Alternatively, select Save from the Authorizations menu.

  3. Click the Generate tool button. icon or select Generate from the Authorizations menu to update existing profiles associated with this custom role.

Next: Install the LiveCompare server software