Chronograph App
The Chronograph App measures your investment in custom programs by year for the specified SAP system. Custom programs are identified by matching patterns obtained from an External Data Source. A running total of custom programs by year is maintained, based on each program’s creation date value, read from the TRDIR table. The App includes two String parameters named CostToBuild and CostToMaintain, which allow cost values for building and maintaining each custom program to be specified.
DevOps Categories
Operations.
Prerequisites
None.
Running the App
To run the Chronograph App, select the App from the Apps screen and create an App variant. Select an RFC Destination for the SAP system to be analyzed, and enter cost values for building and maintaining each custom program in the CostToBuild and CostToMaintain fields.
Click ‘Run’. When the variant has completed, its results may be accessed from the App Cockpit screen.
App Results
The Chronograph App generates a line chart that shows a running total by year of the custom programs created on the specified SAP system, a column chart showing the number of custom programs to build and maintain per year, and a column chart showing the build and maintain costs for custom programs per year.
- The ‘Maintain’ object count refers to the number of custom programs created in previous years.
- The ‘Build’ object count refers to the number of custom programs created in a particular year.
The Dashboard report also includes a link to the following report:
Analysis Input Data
This Excel report contains a copy of the input parameters used to produce the App’s Dashboard report. The value of each input parameter is stored in a separate worksheet, which is named after the parameter whose value it contains.