Backward Compatibility
If you have upgraded to LiveCompare 3.9.4 from an earlier release, please note the following:
Upgrading from LiveCompare 3.9.3
Create Object Differences Report Actions
Create Object Differences Report actions include a TestData dataset in this release. If you have any custom workflows that use the Create Object Differences Report action, you may wish to replace the action in these workflows with a new Create Object Differences Report action from the Component Palette.
Table Key Table Contents where the selected rows have no differences are not included in Object Differences Reports.
Table Key Table Contents Reports
Table Key Table Contents reports generated by the Create Object Differences Report action have been simplified in this release, In particular, only differences in the compared table key table contents are shown rather than a complete table contents comparison.
Upgrading from LiveCompare 3.9.2
Transports
LiveCompare 3.9.4 normally requires the version 3.9.4 transports to be installed on each SAP system that is used with LiveCompare. If you are running LiveCompare 3.9.4 using SAP systems that have LiveCompare 3.9.2 (or earlier) transports installed, please note the following:
- CDS Views (DDLS) will not be able to be retrieved, compared or analyzed.
Test Repositories
Tosca Workspaces and Quality Center Projects have been replaced by Test Repositories in this release. If you have any standard LiveCompare App variants that use Tosca Workspaces or Quality Center Projects, you will need to create new variants for these Apps using the ‘Based on [app]’ option.
If you have any standard templates that use Tosca Workspaces or Quality Center Projects, these will need to be replaced with update workflows from the Data/Templates hierarchy folder. If you have any custom Apps or workflows that use Tosca Workspace or Quality Center Project parameters, these will need to be updated to use Test Repositories.
Object Links Caches
Upgrading to LiveCompare 3.9.4 resets any object links caches that have been generated for your RFC Destinations. An object links cache will be reset by the Where Used, Uses What and Find Object Links actions, if these actions identify that the cache was generated by a previous LiveCompare release.
Upgrading from LiveCompare 3.9
Transports
LiveCompare 3.9.4 normally requires the version 3.9.4 transports to be installed on each SAP system that is used with LiveCompare. If you are running LiveCompare 3.9.4 using SAP systems that have LiveCompare 3.9 (or earlier) transports installed, please note the following:
- CDS Views (DDLS) will not be able to be retrieved, compared or analyzed.
- Time References will not be retrieved for the Update Rule (UPDR) object type.
Test Repositories
Tosca Workspaces and Quality Center Projects have been replaced by Test Repositories in this release. If you have any standard LiveCompare App variants that use Tosca Workspaces or Quality Center Projects, you will need to create new variants for these Apps using the ‘Based on [app]’ option.
If you have any standard templates that use Tosca Workspaces or Quality Center Projects, these will need to be replaced with update workflows from the Data/Templates hierarchy folder. If you have any custom Apps or workflows that use Tosca Workspace or Quality Center Project parameters, these will need to be updated to use Test Repositories.
Object Links Caches
Upgrading to LiveCompare 3.9.4 resets any object links caches that have been generated for your RFC Destinations. An object links cache will be reset by the Where Used, Uses What and Find Object Links actions, if these actions identify that the cache was generated by a previous LiveCompare release.
Run Web Service Actions
The Run Web Service action no longer creates a dataset named Raw Results Xml. The Raw Results Xml dataset no longer used and will not be populated in existing workflows. If you have an existing workflow that processes the contents of the Run Web Service action’s Raw Results Xml dataset, then this workflow may need to be redesigned.
Upgrading from LiveCompare 3.8
Transports
LiveCompare 3.9.4 normally requires the version 3.9.4 transports to be installed on each SAP system that is used with LiveCompare. If you are running LiveCompare 3.9.4 using SAP systems that have LiveCompare 3.8 (or earlier) transports installed, please note the following:
- CDS Views (DDLS) will not be able to be retrieved, compared or analyzed.
- Time References will not be retrieved for the Update Rule (UPDR) object type.
- LiveCompare 3.9.4 supports these additional object types: Class Interfaces (INTF), Class Methods (METH), CRM UIF, Dynamic Layout Configuration / Customer Layer (DLCC), CRM UIF, Dynamic Layout Configuration / SAP Layer (DLCS). LiveCompare 3.9 Apps or templates that reference these new object types will not work on SAP systems that have LiveCompare 3.8 transports installed. However, existing Apps and templates that were run in LiveCompare 3.8 will still work.
- If the Get Transport Objects action is run against a LiveCompare 3.8 SAP system, objects with types INTF, METH, DLCC or DLCS will have a comparison status of CantCompare when comparing the retrieved objects.
- The Get SAP Objects action will return an ‘INVALID_TREE’ error when retrieving BW hierarchy trees not supported in LiveCompare 3.8.
Test Repositories
Tosca Workspaces and Quality Center Projects have been replaced by Test Repositories in this release. If you have any standard LiveCompare App variants that use Tosca Workspaces or Quality Center Projects, you will need to create new variants for these Apps using the ‘Based on [app]’ option.
If you have any standard templates that use Tosca Workspaces or Quality Center Projects, these will need to be replaced with update workflows from the Data/Templates hierarchy folder. If you have any custom Apps or workflows that use Tosca Workspace or Quality Center Project parameters, these will need to be updated to use Test Repositories.
Object Links Caches
Upgrading to LiveCompare 3.9.4 resets any object links caches that have been generated for your RFC Destinations. An object links cache will be reset by the Where Used, Uses What and Find Object Links actions, if these actions identify that the cache was generated by a previous LiveCompare release.
Run Web Service Actions
The Run Web Service action no longer creates a dataset named Raw Results Xml. The Raw Results Xml dataset no longer used and will not be populated in existing workflows. If you have an existing workflow that processes the contents of the Run Web Service action’s Raw Results Xml dataset, then this workflow may need to be redesigned.
Upgrading from LiveCompare 3.7 or Earlier Releases
Transports
LiveCompare 3.9.4 normally requires the version 3.9.4 transports to be installed on each SAP system that is used with LiveCompare. If you are running LiveCompare 3.9.4 using SAP systems that have LiveCompare 3.7 (or earlier) transports installed, please note the following:
- CDS Views (DDLS) will not be able to be retrieved, compared or analyzed.
- Time References will not be retrieved for the Update Rule (UPDR) object type.
- LiveCompare 3.9.4 supports these additional object types: Class Interfaces (INTF), Class Methods (METH), CRM UIF, Dynamic Layout Configuration / Customer Layer (DLCC), CRM UIF, Dynamic Layout Configuration / SAP Layer (DLCS). LiveCompare 3.9.4 Apps or templates that reference these new object types will not work on SAP systems that have LiveCompare 3.7 transports installed. However, existing Apps and templates that were run in LiveCompare 3.7 will still work.
- If the Get Transport Objects action is run against a LiveCompare 3.7 SAP system, objects with types INTF, METH, DLCC or DLCS will have a comparison status of CantCompare when comparing the retrieved objects.
- The Get SAP Objects action will return an ‘INVALID_TREE’ error when retrieving BW hierarchy trees not supported in LiveCompare 3.7.
Test Repositories
Tosca Workspaces and Quality Center Projects have been replaced by Test Repositories in this release. If you have any standard LiveCompare App variants that use Tosca Workspaces or Quality Center Projects, you will need to create new variants for these Apps using the ‘Based on [app]’ option.
If you have any standard templates that use Tosca Workspaces or Quality Center Projects, these will need to be replaced with update workflows from the Data/Templates hierarchy folder. If you have any custom Apps or workflows that use Tosca Workspace or Quality Center Project parameters, these will need to be updated to use Test Repositories.
Object Links Caches
Upgrading to LiveCompare 3.9.4 resets any object links caches that have been generated for your RFC Destinations. An object links cache will be reset by the Where Used, Uses What and Find Object Links actions, if these actions identify that the cache was generated by a previous LiveCompare release.
Get Transport Objects Actions
The Get Transport Objects action has a new parameter in this release named Expand Views. Its default value is false. If the parameter is set to true and the action is run against an SAP system with LiveCompare 3.7 or earlier transports, the action will fail with an RFC error. This occurs because the underlying RFC-enabled function (/ICORP/RFC_GET_TRANSPORT_OBJS) was changed in LiveCompare 3.8, adding the new parameter. A call to the old function with fail if the Expand Views parameter is supplied.
Run Web Service Actions
The Run Web Service action no longer creates a dataset named Raw Results Xml. The Raw Results Xml dataset no longer used and will not be populated in existing workflows. If you have an existing workflow that processes the contents of the Run Web Service action's Raw Results Xml dataset, then this workflow may need to be redesigned.
CLAS Objects
Retrieval of Tier 2 details for CLAS objects has been reimplemented in this release. If you use the Quick Compare Wizard on a CLAS object, or run a workflow like Compare Objects to compare CLAS objects, no Tier 2 data will be returned from an SAP system with LiveCompare 3.7 or earlier transports.