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SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost ManagementDocument Version: 10.0 – 2018-04-18

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1 History of Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2 About This Document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

3 How to Use This Document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

4 Installation and Upgrade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.1 Known Issue: Installing the Software on Windows Server 2003. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

5 What's New. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.1 General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

New Multiple System Login. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.2 Setup and Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Software is Available as a Download. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Supported Platforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Configuration Enhancements and Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Oracle Database Script Enhancement: Check for Correct Character Set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

5.3 Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12New: Support for SAP Solution Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12New: Support for the System Landscape Directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13New: Support for End-to-End Root Cause Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13New: Detailed Application Event Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14New: Support for Appsight Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14New: EPO_RESET_SESSIONS Procedure for Backup and Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14New: Remote Configuration Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15New Security Descriptor Controls Access to CPU Throttling Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Security Descriptors and Access Levels To Manage Item Properties and Data Aliases. . . . . . . . . . . . .16Security Descriptors Screen Enhancement: New Groupings for Field Access Security Descriptors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Alerts Screen: Security Tab Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16User Monitor Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

5.4 Data Import and Export. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17New Functionality to Export a Data View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Export Enhancement: Current Item Export. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Export Enhancement: Export ID for Export to Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18Import Enhancements: Ability to Save and Reuse Import Selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19New Database Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Data Loader Enhancement: Load Assignments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Data Loader Enhancement: Load by Any Alias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Data Bridge Enhancement: Abort Import. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

5.5 Model Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21New Model Type: Bill of Materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Currencies Dimension Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Transactional Costing Enhancement: Activity Driver Volumes by Responsibility Center. . . . . . . . . . . 22Resource Driver Assignments Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Cost Object Assignment Enhancement: User Can Define a Default Driver Responsibility Center Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Rules Manager Enhancement: New Filter for Dimensions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Rules Enhancement: Support for the InStrRev Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24New Default Model Calculation Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

5.6 Book Building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25New Grid Values: Post Reassignment Activity Values by Line Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25View Builder Enhancement: Favorites Group for Grid Values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25New Plot Zeros Option in Charts in Books. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25New Grid Design Option: Remove Custom Labels from Axes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Book Script: New BookName() Method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Launching an SAP BusinessObjects Financial Information Management job from a Book. . . . . . . . . .26

5.7 Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Additional Console Commands for Model Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27New Console Commands for Model Calculation Options, Information, and Application Passports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Console: New Decimal Separator Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27New Console Commands for Model Transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

5.8 Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Product Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Documentation Enhancements and Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32New Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

5.9 End User Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38New: Web Client Restart and Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Web Client Toolbar Enhancement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

5.10 Reporting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39New: 64-bit MDX ODBO Connector and MDX XMLA Provider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

5.11 Langauge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Support for 20 User Interface Languages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

6 Known Issues and Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416.1 Known Issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Installation and Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41Data Import and Export. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Model Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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Book Building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43Reporting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44End User Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

6.2 Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46Model Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Book Building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46End User Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46


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1 History of Changes

The current version of this document is version 1.2. The following table provides an overview of the most important changes in prior and current versions of this document.

NoteSAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management documents are updated between releases. To ensure you have the most recent version of a document, download the latest version from the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com.

Version Important Changes

Version 1.0 May-10-2011 Initial version of the What's New document for SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0

Version 1.1 August-2011 ● The following known issue has been added: The SAP System Landscape Directory Registration tool fails to start when run from a Command Prompt window (ADAPT01545909).

● The following known issue has been removed because it is now resolved: The User Management Client Version is not detected when PCMConfigure.exe is launched with the startup switch after initial installation (ADAPT01539711).

● The topic “Currencies Dimension Enhancements” has an additional paragraph to further clarify the purpose of the UOM currency groupings.

● Updates to the documentation that have taken place since the previous release are detailed in the new “Documentation Addendum” topic.

● The“ New Database Views” topic is amended by correcting the view names for the SM and BW versions of the views.

Version 1.2 November-2011 ● The topic “Support for 19 User Interface Languages” is amended to clarify that Portuguese (Brazil) is the supported language (ADAPT01578417).

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2 About This Document

This document is intended for anyone involved in installing, configuring, or administering SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0. This document provides a list of new features, enhancements, and changes made for this release of the product. Known issues and limitations that are included in this release are also detailed in this document

We recommend that you read this document prior to installing, or upgrading to, this release. Please visit the SAP Help Portal and select the SAP BusinessObjects tab for additional notes and information that may become available following the release of this document.


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3 How to Use This Document

This document describes new features and updates to both the software and the documentation in version 10.0 of SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management. These are listed in the following sections:

● What's New● Known Issues

Most sections of this document follow the same format, being arranged into separate areas of the product, as follows:

● General - items that cover more than one area, such as login changes● Setup and Configuration - information about changes to the installation and configuration of the software,

such as new minimum requirements● Administration - administrative tasks such as security, system information, and auditing● Data Import/Export - including Data Bridge, Data Loader, and import/export functionality● Model Construction - for items specific to model infrastructure and dimension functionality● Book Building - for items specific to book building, such as grids, Data Explorer, and Book design● Console - changes related to the Console tool and commands● Documentation - changes and enhancements to the documentation● End User Products - or items specific to end users, such as the Web Client or Book Viewer● Work Process Functionality - Work Manager application● Reporting - including Report Manager, MDX ODBO Connector, and the MDX XMLA Provider● Language - items related to the application's language capabilities and language packs.

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4 Installation and Upgrade

For instructions on installing SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Installation Guide.

For instructions on upgrading to SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Upgrade Guide.

Both documents are available on the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com.

Related Information

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4.1 Known Issue: Installing the Software on Windows Server 2003

NoteThe product supports a number of Microsoft operating systems; the following information applies only to installations on Windows Server 2003 and not to installations on any other supported operating system. For a list of the supported platforms, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitabilty and Cost Management Master Guide.

The SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 installer package is large. When you try to install a large Windows Installer (MSI) package you can receive the following error message on 32 bit Windows Server 2003:Error 1718. File <filename> was rejected by digital signature policy.

To resolve the issue, download and install the update for Windows Server 2003 (KB925336), which is available from the Microsoft Download Center at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=8EFFE1D9-7224-4586-BE2B-42C9AE5B9071&displaylang=en .


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5 What's New

This section describes the new features and enhancements in SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0.

5.1 General

5.1.1 New Multiple System Login

Users can now log in to multiple systems. You can configure the software so that users have the following options in the Login dialog box:

● They can select a server to log in to from a list that you configure● They can enter a server to log in to in a text box.● They can select an authentication type from a list that you configure

Multiple system login is also supported by the MDX ODBO Connector, so if you are connecting to Profitability and Cost Management via the MDX ODBO Connector, you are presented with the Login dialog box with the multiple system login options you have configured.

Support for multiple system login is a means of providing high availability to the product, and is useful when users need to switch between environments, for example from a development environment to a production environment. It also enables administrators to attach to local systems. For clients with multiple environments, cost of ownership is reduced because there is no need to reconfigure the clients to access different environments.

NoteFor multiple system login to work, all client and servers in an environment must be running the same version of the software.

For more information on configuring multiple system login, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Installation Guide.

5.2 Setup and Configuration

5.2.1 Software is Available as a Download

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 is available as a download. Ensure you have downloaded the correct version from the SAP Software Distribution Center on the SAP Service MarketPlace at

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For more information, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Installation Guide.

5.2.2 Supported Platforms

For a list of the platforms supported by SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Master Guide and the Product Availability Matrix (PAM) for the product, on the SAP Support Portal at http://service.sap.com/pam .

5.2.3 Configuration Enhancements and Changes

The Configure tool in SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 features a number of enhancements and changes.

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 features integration with SAP and other applications and solutions to provide support for diagnostics, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting. Support includes the following:

Detailed application event logsEnd-to-end tracingSupport for SAP Solution Manager and the System Landscape DirectorySupport for CA Wily IntroscopeRemote configuration

To configure these options, the Configure tool has a number of new screens and options, which include the following:

● The Options Available screen has two new options:○ Remote Configuration Service

○ The Configure tool has new screens to set up and enable remote configuration, in which you choose an installation type, enter a port number for communication between machines, and enter a valid account for the remote configuration service to run under.

○ A new screen called Advanced Server Options is available, via which you access screens to configure server logging options, application passport options, and Native Component Supportability (NCS). These last two options configure tracing and metrics collection, which are used for root cause analysis.

○ SAP System Integration Options○ A new SLD Connection screen is available, in which you configure the connection that enables the

application to send system landscape information to the System Landscape Directory.

Enhancements to user login means that the Configure tool has the following changes:

● A new Login Options screen, which allows you to configure the authentication methods that are available for users to select when logging in, including configuring Single Sign On and enabling secondary logon.

● The new Multi System Options screen, in which you configure a list of servers that users can choose to log in to and also whether users can enter a server to log in to in the Login dialog box.


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For more information on these and other changes to the configuration of the product, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Installation Guide.

Related Information

Configure Tool Enhancement: Ability to Disable Work Manager [page 11]New: Support for End-to-End Root Cause Analysis [page 13]New: Support for SAP Solution Manager [page 12]New: Support for the System Landscape Directory [page 13]New Multiple System Login [page 9]New: Remote Configuration Tool [page 15]

5.2.3.1 Configure Tool Enhancement: Ability to Disable Work Manager

In the Configure tool, the Choose Work Manager Installation Type screen gives you the option to disable Work Manager, just as you can with Report Manager. This is useful if you do not intend to use Work Manager because it prevents unnecessary service processes from running the background.

For more information on configuring Work Manager, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Installation Guide.

5.2.3.2 New Options to Configure Disk Space Levels: Minimum Disk Space and Warning for Low Disk Space

The amount of available disk space that causes alerts to be triggered when opening a model is now configurable. Depending on your computer facilities, you may wish to run the application with either more or less than the default levels. These levels were previously fixed in the application, but can now be set manually during configuration.

In the Choose Model Directory screen of the Configure tool, you click Advanced to access the new Disk Space Levels dialog box. You can set the minimum amount of disk space you want to be available for model results before triggering different levels of model alert:

● Enter the minimum amount of disk space to be available before a critical alert is recorded and model calculation stops.

● Enter the minimum amount of disk space to be available before a warning alert is recorded.

For more information on configuring disk space levels, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Installation Guide.


5.2.3.3 Work Manager and Report Manager Installation Enhancement

The server and client components of the Work Manager and Report Manager utilties have been separated and can be installed independently of each other. This means that client Work Manager and Report Manager interfaces can be installed with more safety on client machines because they cannot be reconfigured as Work Manager and Report Manager servers.

For more information on installing components, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Installation Guide. For more information on the utilities, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Work Manager Guide and the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Report Manager Guide.

5.2.4 Oracle Database Script Enhancement: Check for Correct Character Set

Problems can occur if database collation is case-insensitive when the server collation is set to case-sensitive. To resolve this problem for Oracle databases, the script to create an Oracle database schema, OracleSchema.cmd, now validates whether character sets are set correctly for the database. If they are not correct, the script stops executing. For more information on creating the database schema, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Database Administrator's Guide.

NoteThis issue was resolved for Microsoft SQL Server databases in version 7.5 Support Package 08.

5.3 Administration

5.3.1 New: Support for SAP Solution Manager

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 can be integrated with SAP Solution Manager, to take advantage of the benefits offered by this application life cycle management system. SAP Solution Manager provides integration and collaboration of multiple SAP and non-SAP tools and acts as a centralized platform that provides tools, access to information, and a gateway to the SAP Support Organization.

For this version of the product, SAP Solution Manager can help to manage and support the following scenarios in your Profitability and Cost Management environment:

Service DeskSolution MonitoringChange ManagementRoot Cause Analysis


What's New

For more information on SAP Solution Manager, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Master Guide and the Application Life-Cycle Management information on the SAP Support Portal at http://service.sap.com/alm .

5.3.2 New: Support for the System Landscape Directory

As part of support for SAP Solution Manager and end-to-end root cause analysis, SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 supports the System Landscape Directory (SLD). The SLD is a container for all the properties and information relevant to a system and provides this information to tools to help manage your system landscape.

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management provides information to the SLD by sending the SLD an XML file that contains details of the system landscape. For this to happen, you need to link Profitability and Cost Management to the SLD by entering connection information in a new screen in the Configure tool called SLD Connection. At the end of configuration, the Configure tool automatically runs command-line utilities to create the XML file and send it securely to the SLD.

For more information on the SLD, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Master Guide and the information on the SAP Developers Network at http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-sld .

For more information on configuring the connection between SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management and the SLD, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Installation Guide.

5.3.3 New: Support for End-to-End Root Cause Analysis

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 provides a diagnostics solution for your environment, which includes support for the following:

ScopingMetrics collectionApplication passports and passport handlingSAP Solution ManagerCA Wily IntroscopeEnd to End Trace Launcher

Scoping metrics provide information about every component and method accessed by each task that a user performs. This information can be used to determine the root cause of problems and to troubleshoot the system.

Root cause analysis for SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management is implemented by support for CA Wily Introscope and SAP Solution Manager. CA Wily Introscope is an application that is integrated with SAP Solution Manager to collect metrics and carry out end-to end tracing on installed software components. You can use CA Wily Introscope for the following:

● Tracing specific issues with the SAP support team● Monitoring performance and changes in performance● Identifying processes that are consuming large proportions of resources

End-to-end tracing is supported by the implementation of passport handling, in which application passports act as unique identifiers for components, allowing the flow of a user through the system to be tracked using tools such as


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the End to End Trace Launcher. End to End Trace Launcher starts the passport tracing and passes information to SAP Solution Manager and CA Wily Introscope for analysis.

Implementing a diagnostics solution with CA Wily Introscope can reduce the cost of ownership for configuration, service monitoring, root cause analysis, and support.

For more information on setting up and implementing end-to-end root cause analysis, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Installation Guide and the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Administrator's Guide.

5.3.4 New: Detailed Application Event Logs

In addition to logging events to the Microsoft Windows Application server event log, SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 generates detailed application event logs for components, which can help in troubleshooting and analyzing the cause of problems.

You can configure the location and complexity of the event log information when configuring the application. For example, you can specify the following:

● The destination log file for each application component● The level of information tracked from day to day by a component● The minimum level of messages to be listed in the file

For information on how to configure and use the log files, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Installation Guide and the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Administrator's Guide.

The event logs are in GLF (Generic Log File) format and can be viewed in Notepad or in the SAP Snap-In for Microsoft Management Console (SAP MMC) version 7.20 patch level 71 and later, which provides a user-friendly interface for viewing log files. For more information on the SAP MMC, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Master Guide.

5.3.5 New: Support for Appsight Console

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 supports AppSight Console. AppSight Console is a third party solution management software application that allows remote troubleshooting on client machines.

For more information on AppSight Console, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Administrator's Guide and the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Master Guide.

5.3.6 New: EPO_RESET_SESSIONS Procedure for Backup and Recovery

A new database stored procedure, EPO_RESET_SESSIONS, assists in backup and recovery. After you restore a database successfully, execute EPO_RESET_SESSIONS to delete any records that may exist in the


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EPO_SESSION_INFO table, which effectively closes any user sessions that may have been open when you performed the backup.

For more information on restoring the database and using the stored procedure, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Database Administrator's Guide.

5.3.7 New: Remote Configuration Tool

The new Remote Configuration tool is a central administration tool that allows you to remotely maintain your SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management landscape. Remote Configuration is available as a Windows or a web version.

Remote Configuration allows you to do the following:

● Retrieve configuration files for local and remote machines● Launch the Configure tool and create configuration files● Distribute configuration files to remote machines● Set the Server Logging options that determine the level and complexity of event logging for local and remote

machines● View reports from the System Information tool for local and remote machines● Launch and use the System Information, User Monitor, and Service Manager tools● Perform bootstrap monitoring by stopping and starting services on remote machines

The benefits of remote configuration are a reduced time to maintain configuration, the ability to distribute configurations to multiple machines, and the ability to gather configuration and system information from remote machines.

For more information on the Remote Configuration tool, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Administrator's Guide.

Access to the Remote Configuration tool is controlled by the security descriptor, Remote Configuration Security. For more information, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Security Guide.

5.3.8 New Security Descriptor Controls Access to CPU Throttling Options

A new security descriptor, CPU Constraint Security, controls access to the Model Calculation Options that allow you to apply CPU throttling. This enables administrators to control which users can set the following options:

Maximum CPU UsageFirst CPU UsageBackground Calculation

For more information on the CPU Constraint Security descriptor, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Security Guide.


5.3.9 Security Descriptors and Access Levels To Manage Item Properties and Data Aliases

A new security descriptor called Manage Item Properties controls who can manage Item Properties. Previously, only members of the ADMINISTRATORS user group could manage properties. The new security descriptor allows you to grant a user the permission to manage properties without having to make them an ADMINISTRATOR and thereby granting them more rights than is necessary or desirable. You can also grant a user permission to change property settings without also granting them permission to manage properties.

The security descriptor has the following access levels:

● Full Access - the user can access the Manage Properties dialog box and create, delete, rename, and edit properties.

● Edit Data - the user can access the functionality to edit property settings via the dimension screen context menu item, but they cannot access the Manage Properties dialog box to create or delete properties.

● No Access - the user cannot access the Manage Properties dialog box and also cannot edit a property.

The access levels for the existing Manage Data Aliases security descriptor have changed so that you can grant users permission to change a data alias setting without also granting them permission to manage data aliases. The security descriptor now has the following access levels:

● Full Access - the user can access the Manage Data Aliases dialog box and create, delete, rename, and edit properties.

● Edit Data - the user access the functionality to edit a data alias setting via the dimension screen context menu item, but they cannot access the Manage Data Aliases dialog box to create or delete data aliases.

● No Access - the user cannot access the Manage Data Aliases dialog box and also cannot edit a data alias.

For more information see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Security Guide.

5.3.10 Security Descriptors Screen Enhancement: New Groupings for Field Access Security Descriptors

In the Security Descriptors screen of the Model Builder application, the security descriptors for grid values (the Field Access descriptors) no longer display in one long list but are organized into the same groups used by Grid Values list in View Builder, for example the Field Access Security General Group or the Field Access Security Activity Group. As a result, it is easier to navigate the screen and locate security descriptors.

For more information on Field Access security descriptors, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Security Guide.

5.3.11 Alerts Screen: Security Tab Enhancements

In Model Builder, the Security tab in the Alerts screen has the following enhancements:

● Security alerts are now catergorized into five types, which are listed in the Type column● The type of the alert is also indicated in the Severity column by the following icons:


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- Security type

- Capacity type

- Validation type

- General type

- Work Manager type● The messages in the tab are updated with current product names and some language corrections.

5.3.12 User Monitor Enhancements

A user can log in to User Monitor and log themselves out of any other SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management application or utility they are currently logged in to. To log other users out, however, a user must be a member of the ADMINISTRATORS group.

For more information on using the User Monitor, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Administrator's Guide.

5.4 Data Import and Export

5.4.1 New Functionality to Export a Data View

In SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0, a view or grid can act as the source for an export to a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file. The new Export Data View screen allows you to select an existing grid that you created in View Builder and use it to define the layout of a data export. This enables you to export results to external applications or data warehouses.

In Export Data View, you can select a grid layout and a combination of related dimensions that act as keys. The system then goes through each selection in turn, retrieving results for the grid for each selected key. The results are exported to a CSV file, in a layout similar to that of the original grid. The CSV file uses the decimal separator for the current locale, so you can import the file into Microsoft Excel and other applications without any further processing.

The business benefits of this feature include the following:

● You can use View Builder to construct export files.● You can export combinations of grid values, grid-based calculations, and multiple currencies.● Downstream processing of the exported data is reduced because you can manipulate the data at the source.

For more information on the Export Data View functionality, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide. See also the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Console User Guide for information on running the export job via Console.


5.4.2 Export Enhancement: Current Item ExportAn enhancement to the export functionality enables you to select export dimension items to which the Current status flag is assigned at run time. This allows you to do the following:

● Export Current Items● Filter exports by the current item● Create reusable Export Specification (ESP) files, which you can use for regular tasks

For more information on exporting current items, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.

5.4.3 Export Enhancement: Export ID for Export to DatabaseWhen an Export to Database is performed, every export must have an associated export ID, which can be a shared ID or a personal ID specific to an individual user. The export ID allows the extraction of results by export ID. For example, when two sets of <Cost Object> results are exported to support reporting requirements, they are given different export IDs so that the second export does not overwrite the first. For more information of the database aspects of the export ID, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Database Administrator's Guide.

To support the new export ID, the Export dialog box has a list that allows you to select either a shared ID or the option to create a personal ID. You create IDs in the new Create New Export ID dialog box. Because export IDs are mandatory for exports to database, you cannot proceed with the export until you assign an ID to it. If you try to proceed without assigning an ID, the Create New Export ID dialog box appears and you must assign an ID to the export.

You manage export IDs in the new Manage Export IDs dialog box, in which you can create, rename, and delete export IDs. Which export IDs you have access to and which you can fully manage are controlled by the following two new security descriptors:

Shared Export ID SecurityAll Users Export ID Security

For information on creating and managing Export IDs, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide. For more information on the associated security descriptors, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Security Guide.

CautionAn EXPORT_ID field is added to all existing PPR_ and OMR_ results tables in the database, apart from a number of Transactional Costing tables. This means that when you upgrade to version 10.0, results are DELETED from ALL results tables, except for the following tables, which do not have an EXPORTID field:

PPR_HVACTIVITYDRIVERMAPPINGPPR_HVDETAILCOSTPPR_HVBREAKDOWNDETAILCOSTPPR_HVBREAKDOWN

There are two tables to which this does not apply. All existing data is preserved and an export ID of 1 is written to results in the following tables:


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PPR_HVLIUNITRATEPPR_HVUNITRATE

During the upgrade, the PPLOAD_HVACTIVITYDRIVERVOLUME table has an additional RESPCENTERNAME field added, which is automatically populated with a value of RC Unassigned. Any existing data in this table is retained. Furthermore, any associated results tables that contain Transactional Responsibility Center values are populated with an RC Unassigned value of 3007.

5.4.4 Import Enhancements: Ability to Save and Reuse Import Selections

In the Import XML File dialog box in Model Builder, you can choose to save your import selections to an Import Specification File (an ISF file), which you can reuse when required. You can click Load to load an ISF file for reuse.

For more information on saving and reusing import selections, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.

5.4.5 New Database Views

In addition to the standard database views provided in previous releases, SAP Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 provides two new types of view, which are based on the standard views. Each standard view has the following equivalent views:

● A view with an SM suffix in the name - for example the view VPPR_COSTOBJECTVALUE has an equivalent view called VPPR_COSTOBJECTVALUESM. The SM view is optimized differently to the standard view, so that it returns the same results, but obtains them in a different way. SM and standard views can return results more efficiently depending on your system, and we recommend that you test which views work best for your environment

● A view with a BW prefix in the name - for example the view VPPR_COSTOBJECTVALUE has an equivalent view called BWPPR_COSTOBJECTVALUE. The BW views have the column names shortened and the dimension item names shortened to 32 characters. These views can be used for systems that have naming conventions with character restrictions. They have been added to the product to simplify the integration of results into SAP Netweaver® Business Warehouse through DBConnect.

For more information on database views, please see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Database Administrator's Guide.

5.4.6 Data Loader Enhancement: Load Assignments

Data Loader now allows you to load assignment data into SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0. This feature is supported by new assignment procedures and packages and new database tables to hold the assignment data. The advantages of loading assignments with Data Loader include the following:

● You can load all model data using a single technology. For example, you don't need to combine Data Loader and Data Bridge.


● Data Loader is able to handle high volumes of data as in, for example, Transactional Costing models.● You can incorporate assignment loading into existing ETL (extraction, transform, and load) and automation

processes.● This feature contributes to integration with SAP BusinessObjects Financial Information Management, which

leverages Data Loader functionality.

For more information on loading assignments using Data Loader, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Database Administrator's Guide.

5.4.7 Data Loader Enhancement: Load by Any Alias

Data Loader can load by any data alias except the system-generated data alias EPO CODE. The data aliases available to Data Loader are defined for each model by setting the new Model Calculation Option, Data Loader Alias Resolution, as follows:

● Default Alias - Data Loader uses only the DEFAULT ALIAS dimension item names to load data.● All Aliases - Data Loader uses dimension item names in any data alias to load data, except for EPO CODE.

ExampleYour organization refers to products by both name and stock keeping unit code. In your model, you define the product name as the DEFAULT ALIAS and define the stock-keeping unit code as a data alias for each product. You set the Data Loader Alias Resolution to All Aliases and use Data Loader to import values from warehouse data that uses exclusively stock-keeping codes. This saves time as you do not need to resolve the codes into product names to import the values.

For information on the Model Calculation Option, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide. For information on Data Loader, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Database Administrator's Guide.

5.4.8 Data Bridge Enhancement: Abort Import

Data Bridge now has an Abort command that allows you to stop an import in progress.

CautionThe Abort command does not roll back any data imported up to the point of the abort.

For more information, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Data Bridge User Guide.


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5.5 Model Construction

5.5.1 New Model Type: Bill of Materials

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 provides a new model type, Bill of Materials, which is an extension of a Profitability and Costing model. A Bill of Materials model performs activity-based costing to determine cost object costs, but also calculates costs at a lower level than that of the finished product. This allows you, for example, to determine the cost of manufacturing the assemblies that make up finished goods.

Business uses of this new modeling type include the following:

● Accurately assigning overheads to finished goods based on the consumption of assemblies● Measuring the environmental impact of production, for example determining the carbon footprint of products● Target costing

For more information on the Bill of Materials model type, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.

5.5.2 Currencies Dimension Enhancements

The <Currencies> dimension provides new groupings for currencies and commonly used units of measure (UOM), as follows:

Base UOMCurrency UOMWeight UOMVolume UOMOther UOM

The UOM currency groupings have been introduced to facilitate the operation of the new Bill of Materials type model, where they can be found in the <Units Of Measure> dimension. However they have also been added to the <Currencies> dimension so that their functionality is available in other model types, if required.

In addition to adding standard currencies as previously, you can now define custom currencies and units of measure in the Item Customization Wizard. This allows you to use different units of measure or currencies appropriate to different dimension items in your model. By providing the Base UOM, the system allows you to express conversion factors for your custom UOMs as ratios of the Base UOM, and all conversion is handled internally by the system.

For more information on the <Currencies> dimension, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.


5.5.3 Transactional Costing Enhancement: Activity Driver Volumes by Responsibility Center

In Transactional Costing Models, you can now define transactional <Activity Driver> values by <Responsibility Center>. Cost allocations and the calculation of unit rates can now be specific by <Responsibility Center>. This allows costs and cost rates to be driven by volumes specific to <Responsibility Centers>.

To apply a specific <Responsibility Center> to a transaction <Activity Driver>, you assign the driver to the new default <Transaction RC Activity Drivers> attribute. This allows activity driver volumes to be cost driven by a specific <Responsibility Center>, rather than to all <Responsibility Centers> with an “RC Unassigned” default value, which was previously the case.

This new functionality has the following benefits:

● It makes model design more flexible.● It potentially releases a< Cost Object> dimension for other use because you no longer need to use a <Cost

Object> dimension to represent a <Responsibility Center>.● It reduces the total cost of ownership because there is no need to override every assignment to link a

<Responsibility Center> to the <Cost Object> dimension that represents it.

For more information on how to assign a Transaction <Activity Driver >to a <Responsibility Center>, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.

5.5.4 Resource Driver Assignments Enhancements

In version 10.0, <Resource Driver> assignment is more flexible and provides the following enhancements:

● Default <Resource Driver> assignments are inherited from parent assignments.● You can define assignments as being by cost type or by <Responsibility Center> at the model level.

Inheritance of Default Resource Drivers

Dimension items can inherit the default Resource Driver assignments of their parent items. However, override assignments cannot be made in this way. Inherited default Resource Driver assignments are resolved in the following order:

1. First, the leaf item.2. Next, assignments inherited in the main hierarchy of the dimension, working from the leaf item up the branch

of the hierarchy tree.3. Finally, assignments inherited in the Attribute hierarchy, working up the branch of the hierarchy tree.

To support the inheritance of default Resource Driver Assignments, the Resource Drivers Assignment screen has the following changes:

● The Default Resource Driver column shows the resolved, inherited assignment for each leaf item in the dimension hierarchy.


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● The screen contains an additional Inherited From column, which lists the source of inherited assignments for leaf items.

● Parent items only have an entry in the Default Resource Driver column if an assignment is made.● In the list to select the default Resource Driver, the item RC Unassigned is replaced by <No Assignment>.● The Overrides panel also contains an Inherited From column.● The Overrides panel has two options for displaying default Resource Driver assignments:

A single simple default assignment is displayed - this is the resolved inherited assignment, as in the main screen.All default assignments are shown.

Resource Driver Assignments by Cost Type and Responsibility Center

In version 7.5, <Resource Driver> assignments are by cost type. In version 10.0, <Resource Driver> assignments can be by <Line Items> and/or <Services> or by <Responsibility Center>. To support these enhancements, a new Model Calculation Option, Resource Driver Assignment, is available, with the following options:

By Cost TypeBy Responsibility Center

Depending on which option you choose, the Resource Drivers Assignment screen switches to display either the cost type (<Line Items> or <Services>) or the <Responsibility Center> as the primary dimension. To switch between <Line Items> or <Services> as a cost type, the screen now uses Cost Type options instead of tabs.

Benefits and Business Use

The <Resource Driver> assignments enhancements assist in model building and maintenance and provide support for an activity-based chart of accounts or COA - a set of values in the general ledger that creates the framework for recoding and reporting all financial transactions.

Flexibility in <Resource Driver> assignment also provides the following business benefits:

● It reduces the time needed to create and maintain assignments.● It reduces the number of overrides to create and maintain.● It aligns to a common approach to the chart of accounts in cost center accounting.

For more information on <Resource Driver> assignments, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.


5.5.5 Cost Object Assignment Enhancement: User Can Define a Default Driver Responsibility Center Type

A new Model Calculation Option called Default Driver Responsibility Center Type allows you to define, at the model level, a default <Responsibility Center> as the source of <Activity Driver> values for <Cost Object> /<Activity Driver> assignments. You can choose from the following settings:

AllParentCurrentRC Unassigned

The setting that you choose is used as the source of <Activity Driver> values unless you choose a different setting in the Cost Object Assignment screen. In the upper right-hand pane in which you assign <Activity Drivers>, the Driver Responsibility Centers Type column replaces the Responsibility Center column and allows you to select from the same four settings as the Model Calculation Option.

The initial setting for all new and existing models is RC Unassigned. This is a change from the default setting of All in earlier versions, which could lead to poorly performing models. The RC Unassigned option has no associated consolidation, so calculation is quicker.

For more information on Cost Object assignment and model calculation options, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.

5.5.6 Rules Manager Enhancement: New Filter for Dimensions

In Model Builder, the Rules Manager now contains the standard Profitability and Cost Management filter box, to allow you to filter dimension items. When a dimension contains many items, filtering helps you to locate specific dimension items quickly and easily. For more information on filtering, or the Rules Manager, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.

5.5.7 Rules Enhancement: Support for the InStrRev Function

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 now supports the string function InstrRev in rules when the Rules Engine option for model calculation is set to Compiled or Compiled with VBScript.

You can use this function to search for a string (String 1) in another string (String 2). InStrRev returns the position of String 1 in String 2. The position is counted from the start of String 2, but the search is performed from the end of the string.

For more information on functions and rules, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide and the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling Reference Guide.


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5.5.8 New Default Model Calculation Options

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 allows you to create default settings for Model Calculation Options that apply to all new models that you create.

You set the default options in the new Default Model Options dialog box, which you can access from the Tools menu. You set the options in the same way that you set options in the Model Calculation Options dialog box. Once you have set the default options, all new models are created with those Model Calculation Options. The settings do not affect existing models.

For more information, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.

5.6 Book Building

5.6.1 New Grid Values: Post Reassignment Activity Values by Line Items

The following new grid values are available to represent <Activity> values, analyzed by <Line Item>, after <Activity> reassignments have been applied:

PostReassignLineItemValuePostReassignLineItemFixedValuePostReassignLineItemVariableValue

For more information, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling Reference Guide.

5.6.2 View Builder Enhancement: Favorites Group for Grid Values

In View Builder, you can add grid values that you use frequently to the new Favorites group in the Grid Values list. This helps you to locate these values more easily.

For more information on adding grid values to the Favorites group, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.

5.6.3 New Plot Zeros Option in Charts in Books

The Chart object for Books has a new Plot Zeros property, which appears as the Plot Zeros checkbox in the Property Panel. You can select or deselect Plot Zeros to specify whether zero values are to be plotted on a chart. This feature is useful on a chart such as a line graph, where a line joins plotted points. If data is missing, you may not wish the plotted line to fall to zero. In this case, you can deselect Plot Zeros to specify that zeros are not plotted. You can also set the Plot Zeros property in book script by supplying a Boolean value for the property.


For more information on this property, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide and the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling Reference Guide.

5.6.4 New Grid Design Option: Remove Custom Labels from Axes

If you have edited the labels for the axis of a grid layout, you can quickly and easily restore the labels to their original dimension item names by using the new grid design context menu command, Remove Custom Labels. You can choose to restore the original names for an entire axis or for specific selected items.

For more information on removing custom labels from grid axes, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.

5.6.5 Book Script: New BookName() Method

A new book scripting method is available called BookName(), which returns the name of the current book. For more information on this method, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling Reference Guide.

ExampleThe following script displays the name of the current book in a text box when a user clicks a button:

Sub Button_OnClick() Edit.Text = BookName() End Sub

5.6.6 Launching an SAP BusinessObjects Financial Information Management job from a Book

You can now launch a Financial Information Management job from a Profitability and Cost Management book by defining a URL string in your book script. The URL is generated by a Financial Information Management scheduling file which you can extract into your book script as part of an event, sub or function.

For more information, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.


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5.7 Console

5.7.1 Additional Console Commands for Model Administration

The following new commands provide Console with all the existing functions in the Model Administration screen:

Copy ModelRename ModelModel DescriptionModel ServerModel EnabledAudit Enabled

The commands enable a full “lights out” (automated) process to be controlled through Console rather than using a combination of Console commands and batch processes. For example, you can automate periodic tasks such as year-end and quarter-end processes.

For more information on these Console commands, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Console Guide.

5.7.2 New Console Commands for Model Calculation Options, Information, and Application Passports

Additional useful new Console commands include the following:

● Model Option - allows you change any existing Model Calculation Option for a model.● Information - provides information on the current model status, system connections, and application

passport settings.● Passport - specifies the application passport GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) to use for recording metrics

for a Console command file run.● Login Server - allows you to specify which server to use when logging in.

For more information on these Console commands, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Console Guide.

5.7.3 Console: New Decimal Separator Configuration

In Console in version 10.0, you can specify which decimal separator exported data must use. The Export Model To File command has a new parameter - decimalsep - for which you can specify the following options:

● DEFAULT - the decimal separator defaults to the separator specified in the regional settings of the current Windows operating system

● PERIOD - the decimal separator is fixed as a period● COMMA - the decimal separator is fixed as a comma


For more information on specifying the decimal separator for exported data in Console, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Console User Guide.

5.7.4 New Console Commands for Model Transport

New Console commands enable you to automate the process of moving a model from one system to another. For example, you can transfer a model from a testing environment to a production system. The new commands include the following:

Transport Model from one System to AnotherCreate System ConnectionSwitch System ConnectionLogin Server

For more information on these Console commands, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Console Guide. For more information on transporting models between environments, see the “Model Development” section in the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Administrator's Guide.

5.8 Documentation

5.8.1 Product Documentation

The set of documentation for version 10.0 has been streamlined: technical guides and user guides from version 7.5 have been merged in some cases to create more manageable and user-friendly documentation, with no loss of content. The topics that follow describe the documentation, changes to the documentation, and the formats in which documentation is available.

5.8.1.1 Technical or TICM (Technical Implementation and Change Management Guides

TICM guides provide the information required to plan, install, configure, upgrade, and migrate the product. All TICM guides are available in PDF format only and are not shipped with the product. They are available on the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com. See the sections that follow for descriptions of the TICM documentation for SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0.

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Master Guide

This document is a starting point for the technical implementation of SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0. It provides a high-level overview of the system landscape of the product and describes the


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software components and system architecture. It lists the supported platforms, the recommended and supported hardware and software, and the supported network technologies.

The guide incorporates all the information previously contained in the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management System Requirements Guide.

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Installation Guide

The guide lists and describes pre-installation, installation, and post-installation tasks, as well as explaining how to configure the application. The document also covers silent installation and program maintenance. It also describes how to configure the application to use the diagnostics and logging solutions available to this version and how to configure the application to communicate with SAP BusinessObjects Financial Information Management.

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Upgrade Guide

This is a new guide type; introduced for version 10.0. It describes the technical upgrade of the product, taking into account the combinations of operating systems and databases.

The Upgrade Guide incorporates the information previously held in the following documents:

Release NotesSAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Installation Guide

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Administrator's Guide

This guide describes how to manage, maintain, and monitor the application and its users and how to perform remote configuration and troubleshooting. It lists and describes the tools that you use to perform administrative tasks, and explains how to use them. The document covers topics such as starting and stopping the application, configuration, backup and restore, periodic tasks, user management tools, language capabilities, and printing.

This version of the Administrator's Guide incorporates all the information previously contained in the following documents:

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Service Processes GuideSAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management System Information

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Security Guide

This guide describes how security operates in the application and discusses security on an application level and a model level. The guide outlines how to create users and groups and how to assign security levels to users and groups using security descriptors. Password configuration and Books security is also covered, as well as network security, data storage security, the impact on security of dispensing with functions, and other security relevant information.


SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Database Administrator's Guide

This guide describes the software prerequisites for the supported database software; explains the installation procedures; describes the Data Loader tool and procedures and how to use them; and lists and describes database tables for results and audits.

This document incorporates all the information previously contained in the following documents:

● SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Database Guide for Microsoft SQL Server● SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Database Guide for Oracle

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Integration Guide

The guide explains the tasks involved to synchronize both SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform users and SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management users.

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management MDX ODBO Connector Guide

This document describes the MDX ODBO Connector; lists supported third-party software, versions, and operating systems; and describes how to use the MDX ODBO Connector to do the following:

● Populate a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with data from a Profitability and Cost Management model

5.8.1.2 Application Help

Application Help is documentation that explains how to use the product, such as how to use the Model Builder application, Console, or Data Bridge.“Application Help” refers to both PDF documents and online Help (F1 Help) files. For SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0, PDF files are not shipped with the product, but the CHM Help files are shipped with the product and are integrated as online Help for the following applications and tools:

Model Builder - This includes the user guide as well as the reference guideData BridgeWork ManagerReport ManagerConsoleRemote Configuration

Application Help in the form of PDF and CHM files is available for download in the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com. See the sections that follow for descriptions of the documentation.


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SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide

This guide describes how to use the Model Builder application to create models and books for all model types. The document also explains how to view books in the web client and the Book Viewer tool.

This guide incorporates all the information previously contained in the following documents:

● SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management User Guide● SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Transactional Costing User Guide● SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Objectives and Metrics Modeling User Guide

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling Reference Guide

This guide lists and describes the following for all model types: grid values, predefined functions, Book Object properties and procedures, Book control methods, and Work Manager process functions.

This document incorporates all the information previously contained in the following documents:

● SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Reference Guide● SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Objectives and Metrics Reference Guide

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Console User Guide

This guide describes how to use the Console tool to run commands against the application with command-line statements. It also explains how to create command or batch files that contain these statements to create automated scheduled tasks or “jobs”.

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Data Bridge Guide

This document describes how to use the Data Bridge tool to transfer data into the application from flat files and external data sources such as SAP Netweaver ® Business Warehouse, databases, and other Profitability and Cost Management models.

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Report Manager Guide

This document explains how to use the Report Manager application to create reports from Books and to script tasks that control how and when these reports are presented to users.


SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Work Manager Guide

This guide explains how the Work Manager Server and the Work Manager application work together to help you automate business processes.

5.8.2 Documentation Enhancements and Changes

The topics that follow list the major changes and enhancements to the documentation that are in addition to the streamlining of the documentation set and the documentation of new features.

5.8.2.1 Documentation PDF Files Are Available Only As Downloads from SAP

The PDF files for the documentation are no longer shipped with the product. Instead, they are available to browse and download via the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com.

As a result, the Documents submenu in the Start menu no longer contains any links to documents. Instead, it contains a link to the SAP Help Portal.

5.8.2.1.1 How to Download Documentation

Context

The most recent versions of the documentation are available for download from the SAP Help Portal. To download the documentation, proceed as follows:

Procedure

1. Navigate to the SAP Help Portal at http:\\help.sap.com.

2. Select SAP BusinessObjects All Products .3. Select a language in the list. Then select Profitability and Cost Management in the products list and SAP

BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 in the releases list.4. Click the PDF icon for a document to download it or click the relevant zip file icon to download a Help file.


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5.8.2.2 SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Administrator's Guide Enhancements and Changes

In addition to new chapters on new features such as support for end-to-end root analysis, the collection of performance metrics, and how to use the remote configuration tool, the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Administrator's Guide has the following changes and enhancements:

● A chapter on troubleshooting.● A section on high availability.● A new section on Model Development, which includes instructions for transporting models between

environments.

5.8.2.3 SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Installation Guide Changes and Enhancements

In addition to being updated with all the installation and configuration changes for version 10.0, the document also has the following new additional information:

● How to configure an application pool to run in 32-bit mode, which is required to run the FIMWebService on a 64-bit machine.

● How to configure compatibility with Internet Information Server 6.0 (IIS 6.0) in Windows Vista.● Post-installation configuration instructions for IIS.

5.8.2.4 SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Console User Guide Changes and Enhancements

The document has the following changes and enhancements:

● The command names for error messages 16 and 31 are corrected.

5.8.2.5 SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Master Guide Changes and Enhancements


● A recommendation about the number of Transactional Costing models per Model server is added.


● The system landscape diagram is updated.● System architecture and system component deployment diagrams are added.● A “Solution-Wide” chapter is added with sections on localization and SAP Solution Manager

5.8.2.6 SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management MDX ODBO Connector Guide Changes and Enhancements

This document has the following enhancements:

● The section on using the MDX ODBO Connector with Microsoft Excel has been updated from Excel 2003 to Excel 2007.

● A new topic has been added on restricted characters that are not allowed with Microsoft Analysis Services.

5.8.2.7 SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide Changes and Enhancements


● The Auto Remove Values checkbox is documented.● How to disable the Drill to Origin function is added.● The explanation of Transactional Costing results is expanded and clarified.

5.8.2.8 SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Security Guide Changes and Enhancements


● Information on security logging and tracing is added.● The topics on security descriptors are re-organized according to the new groupings of descriptors in the Model

Builder screen, Security Descriptors. This makes information easier to find because the document structure mirrors the onscreen structure.

● Additional sections are added on network and communications security, data storage security, security for third-party applications, dispensable functions with impacts on security, security export, and ActiveX Control security.


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5.8.2.9 Documentation Addendum

This page lists all the documentation changes and updates that accompany the new release of the full build of the product in July 2011. You can download the latest versions of the documentation from the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com.

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Administrator's Guide

The following changes have been made:

● A new section on error codes and their meanings is added.● The “Backup and Restore” section contains an additional reference to the SAP BusinessObjects Database

Administrator’s Guide for information about detailed backup and restore procedures.● The “SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Remote Configuration Tool” topic contains

additional information about settings that cannot be distributed to remote machines, and a distinction between using the tool to distribute client configuration settings rather than server configuration settings is made.

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● The“ Dimension Data Load” section has been updated to clarify what takes place when the INREPLACE parameter is used.

● Additional text has been added to step 5 of the “Dimension Data Load” procedure to convey that attribute mappings are removed regardless of the loadstatus value.

● Three additional results tables are documented that are designed to work in conjunction with universe files for the purpose of reporting query and analysis. The additional tables are as follows:

PPR_#DIMENSION_NAME#_BRIDGEPPR_#DIMENSION_NAME_NODEITEMSPPR_NODE_LEVEL

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● The section on how to uninstall the product is updated to describe the uninstall process for Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

● The topics “Microsoft SQL Command”, “Microsoft SQL Native Client” and “Installing the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Software”, are updated to inform users that Microsoft SQL Native Client is an installation prerequisite for Microsoft SQL Command.


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● The topic “Configuring the Application Server” is amended in step 8 to clarify the options for configuring disk space levels.

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● The sample universe tables for Bill of Materials models are added to the “Sample SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Universe Files” section.

● A correction has been made to the “Running the Import Wizard” section which contained an error in the filepath for the location of the Business Intelligence Archive Resource (BIAR) file.

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● In the “Grid Object General” section, the code example provided for the GetCellValue procedure has been corrected.

● In the “Keys General” topic, the table for the SetKeyItemName method is updated with a note that refers the user to the “Books in Bill of Materials Modeling” topic in the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide. In addition, in the “Dimension Tree General” and “Dimension List General” topics, the SelectedName table is updated with a note that refers the user to the “Books in Bill of Materials Modeling” topic.

● The RaiseAlert and RaiseCapacityAlert structure functions contain additional information about how the functions are used in rules.

● The“ Edit Box Object” and “Memo Object” topics have a note that explains that when the Text property for these objects is set at design time it cannot be altered at run time in a way that saves the change to the database, although it can be edited.

● Grid values are ordered alphabetically within the groups in which they are displayed in the Grid Values panel in View Builder. These groups are also presented alphabetically.

● The description for CodeByLeafPosition is amended.

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● A known issue relating to importing Transactional Costing models has been documented as well as a workaround for the problem. Refer to the “Known Issue When Importing Transactional Costing Models” topic.

● The “Books in Bill of Materials Modeling” topic is updated with information of how to refer to BOM Makeup items in book script. In addition, the following topics have a note added and a cross reference to the “Books in Bill of Materials Modeling” topic:


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“The Books Dimension List Object”“The Books Dimension Tree Object”“The Books Keys Objects”

● An additional section titled “Custom alerts” explains how you can create your own alert messages in the Model Alerts tab for specific user groups, using the RaiseAlert function.

● The description of the MsgBox function in the “Scheduling Multiple Slices” section is revised.● The sections on the Edit Box and Memo book objects are updated with an explanation that if the Text

property for these objects is set at design time, it cannot be altered at run time in a way that saves the change to the database.

● The description of how timelines work and the role of CodeByLeafPosition is clarified.● The improvements to the visual feedback that displays when grid data is being updated are documented.● The “Capacity Planning” section contains additional text to explain that the Capacity rule does not cycle

through any combinations by default, and that the iterations through grid values need to be coded into the rule. A coded example is included.

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An error is corrected in the “History of Changes” topic.

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 What's New

Changes are described in the “History of Changes” topic at the start if this document.

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling Help

The CHM Help file is reissued to reflect the changes described above, in the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide and SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling Reference Guide.

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The CHM Help file is reissued to reflect the change described above, in the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Report Manager User Guide.


5.8.3 New Terminology

The following table lists the new terms for the product:

New Terms for SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0

Term Definition

bill of materials A complete, structured list of the components that make up an object. The list contains the description, the quantity, and unit of measure. The components are known as BOM items.

material A specific part of the product to be assembled, as described in a bill of materials (BOM). Each material is a line item in the BOM.

subassembly A component in another assembly.

assembly A parent or component (subassembly) that is made up of other components.

component The raw material, part, or subassembly that goes into a higher-level assembly.

unit of measure Refers to various standard measurements for weight, liquid measure, time, and those of non-standard ones, such as carton and box, used in a report.

Application Passport An alternative format of the SAP Passport that is specific to the native component and is used to trigger a transaction trace either for areas of the native component that cannot receive a SAP passport or when a SAP Passport is not available.

SKU Stock keeping unit - an item in the BOM (Bill of Materials) that can be sold internally or externally - this will normally be an assembly but could, in the case of spares, be a subassembly.

BOM Makeup Definition of the collection of assemblies, subassemblies and components, and their required quantities, that comprise a bill of materials.

piece The default unit of measure in which BOM makeup volumes are expressed in a Bill of Materials model.

BOM makeup volume Quantity of BOM makeup items in a sub-assembly.

For more information on these terms and the Bill of Materials model, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.

5.9 End User Products

5.9.1 New: Web Client Restart and Recovery

The application provides an interface restart and recovery mechanism to ensure that updates to model data entered via web books are not lost if the server or the web browser fails. The functionality is implemented by adding a specific registry key to the registry of the web client machine.

Updates entered via the web client are stored in a temporary file. If the updates are not saved when the server or web browser fails, the next time you log in, a message is displayed as follows:There are <number> unsaved updates for this model from <date and time> Do you want to load these now?

For more information on the web client, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide. For more information on how to implement the mechanism by adding a registry key, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Administrator's Guide.


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5.9.2 Web Client Toolbar Enhancement

The SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Web Client toolbar has been enhanced to allow better access to the toolbar buttons. The enhancements are as follows:

● If the screen is too narrow to display all the buttons and text on the toolbar, the text “Profitability and Cost Management” is dropped first, to make space for the buttons.

● If, after dropping the text, the screen is still too small to display all the buttons on the toolbar, the buttons that cannot fit onscreen can be accessed by a clicking the drop mark - a down-pointing arrow that launches a drop-down with the hidden buttons.

● Users can now customize the toolbar.

For more information on the Web Client and customizing the toolbar, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.

5.10 Reporting

5.10.1 New: 64-bit MDX ODBO Connector and MDX XMLA Provider

SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 provides 64-bit versions of the following:

● MDX ODBO Connector, which is a OLE/DB for OLAP (Object Linking and Embedding, Database for Online Analytical Processing) or ODBO provider that allows licensed clients to interface with third party software applications, such as Microsoft Excel.

● MDX XMLA Provider, a web service that provides an XMLA (Extensible Markup Language for Analysis) interface that supports the enquiry of SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management results.

For more information, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Master Guide and the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management MDX ODBO Connector Guide.

5.11 Langauge

5.11.1 Support for 20 User Interface Languages

As of Support Package 02, SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management 10.0 supports 20 languages as user interface languages. You can select any of the following as a display language for the interface:

CzechDanishGermanEnglish (United States)


SpanishFinnishFrenchHungarianItalianJapaneseKoreanNorwegianDutchPortuguese (Brazil)PolishRussianSlovakianSwedishTurkishSimplified Chinese

For more information on language selection during installation, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Installation Guide. For more information of language selection post-installation, see the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Modeling User Guide.


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6 Known Issues and Limitations

The topics that follow list the known issues and limitations for this release. Internal issue reference numbers are provided where relevant.

6.1 Known Issues

6.1.1 Installation and Configuration

6.1.1.1 The SAP System Landscape Directory Registration Tool fails to Start when run from a Command Prompt Window (ADAPT01545909)

If the C:\Program Files\SAP BusinessObjects\PCM\sldreg.exe is run from the command prompt on a Windows Server 2008 x86 machine, the following error message is returned:

The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more details.

The following error details are also recorded in the Windows Event Log:

Activation context generation failed for "C:\Program Files\SAP BusinessObjects\PCM\sldreg.exe". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.CRT,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",versio n="8.0.50727.4053" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.

This error occurs because the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 security update described in the Microsoft knowledge base article : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973923 is not installed or is not the correct version.

To resolve this issue, you need to download and install Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package (version 8.0.50727.4053) from the Microsoft web site.

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6.1.2 Data Import and Export

6.1.2.1 Export to File > As Text Does Not Handle Unicode Characters Correctly (ADAPT01163626)

In the Model Builder application, dimension hierarchies can be exported using the Export to File As Textcommand in the Main Hierarchy context menu. However, if a dimension item has a name containing Unicode characters, the characters display as question marks (????) in the text file.

The Export to File As RTF and Export to File As HTML commands work correctly, as do all the Export To Clipboard commands.

A workaround for the problem is to use the Export to Clipboard As Text option, paste the text into a text editor such as Notepad, and save the text as a Unicode TXT file.

6.1.2.2 Data Loader Allows the Loading of Recursive Assignments for Bill of Materials Models (ADAPT01429035)

Model Builder prevents you creating a recursive assignment in the BOM Makeup of a Bill of Materials model. That is, you cannot try make an assembly a component of itself. However, Data Loader does allow you load recursive assignments into a BOM Makeup. You can view and delete the recursive assignments in the BOM Makeup screen.

6.1.2.3 Data Loader Fails to Load 2,000 000+ Records

In a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database, when attempting to load more than 2,000 000 records in an SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management database, Data Loader fails with a locking error.

6.1.3 Model Construction

6.1.3.1 Aliases for Items Continue to Display After the Alias is Deleted

If the primary alias for a model is set to a Data Alias, the values from this data alias continue to display after you delete it, even though the primary alias is reset automatically to the Default Alias. If you open the Select Data Aliases dialog box where the primary alias is now set to Default Alias and click OK, the correct default item values display. Alternatively, close and re-open the model, and the default item values appear correctly.


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6.1.3.2 Transactional Costing: Imported Detailed Cost Objects Items Are Displayed When They Should Be Hidden (ADAPT01514357)

This issue occurs when you import a Transactional Costing model that was created in a version of the software before the functionality to hide <Detailed Cost Objects> items was available. When you import such a model, the <Detailed Cost Objects> dimension items are displayed, even though the Model Calculation options are set to hide <Detailed Cost Objects> items. If you try to change the Model Calculation options, additional unwanted dimension items are created.

Workaround: To import a Transactional Costing model from an earlier version of the software and ensure that the <Detailed Cost Objects> items are hidden, proceed as follows:

1. Create a new Transactional Costing model.2. In the Model Calculation Options dialog box, set all Detailed Cost Objects <number> main hierarchy options to

Display.3. Import the XML file of the model. In the Import XML File dialog box, deselect the MODELOPTIONS check box in

the Available Tables list to ensure that you do not import the Model Calculation settings for the model.4. When the import is complete, open the Model Calculation Options dialog box and set all the Detailed Cost

Objects <number> main hierarchy options to Hide.

6.1.4 Book Building

6.1.4.1 Some Fonts Do Not Display for Book Controls on the Web (4380)

The Script, Webdings, and Wingdings fonts can be set for any control in a book. However, the fonts do not display when the book is viewed in a web browser. The fonts can still be used successfully in text in a book.

6.1.4.2 A Drill Control Displays Incorrectly when the Book is Viewed on the Web (ADAPT01514036)

This issue occurs when an Objectives and Metrics model created in an earlier version of the software is imported into version 10.0. A Drill control in a book looks correct when viewed in Model Builder or Book Viewer, but when the book is viewed in the Web Client, the Drill control appears blank; it displays without text, values, or colors.

Workaround: To have the Drill control display correctly, open the book in the Book Editor, force a change (for example, select, and then immediately deselect, a checkbox in the Property panel) , and then resave and republish the book. The Drill control then displays correctly in the Web client.


6.1.5 Reporting

6.1.5.1 MDX ODBO Connector: Attempting to Insert a PivotTable in Excel 2003 Generates an Error (ADAPT01499666)

If you attempt to create a PivotTable in Microsoft Excel 2003, using MDX ODBO Connector to connect to SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management model data, the following error message displays:Initialization of the data source failed. Check the database server or contact your database administrator. Make sure the external database is available and try this operation again. If you see this message again, create a new datasource to connect to the database.

This error is caused by a Microsoft Excel issue and you can resolve it by downloading and installing the appropropriate update for Microsoft Office 2003.

The issue is described in the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article KB907417, which is available at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=907417 .

The update can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=1B0BFB35-C252-43CC-8A2A-6A64D6AC4670&displaylang=en .

You must install this specific update; the fix is not available in Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Office 2003.

Workaround: If you cannot install the update, you can resolve the issue by creating a file called excel.exe.config in the same folder as the excel.exe file. Create excel.exe.config with the following contents:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration><startup><supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50727"/></startup></configuration>

6.1.5.2 “CMS Server cannot be found” Error Occurs when Attempting to Launch a Book from SAP BusinessObjects InfoView (ADAPT01539714)

When the PCMBookLink is double-clicked or launched using the View Profit Book context menu option in SAP BusinessObjects InfoView, the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management web site does not open, and the Enterprise Single Sign On login fails with the error message: CMS Server cannot be found.



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6.1.6 End User Products

6.1.6.1 Opening a Book Raises an “Interface Not Supported” Error (ADAPT01461870)

The issue occurs for some releases of Windows Server 2008 on both on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems when using the proprietary web server. If a user logs in to the SAP BusinessObjects Profitability and Cost Management Web Client, opens a model, and then attempts to open a book, the following error message is generated: Interface Not Supported.

The problem occurs when an entry for the Microsoft Script Control (msscript.ocx) in the Registry has a filepath that is defined between double quotation marks, for example: "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msscript.ocx"

To resolve the issue, use the Registry Editor to remove the quotes from the filepath as follows:

To correct the issue on a Windows Server 2008 x64 platform

To correct the issue on a 64-bit Windows Server 2008 platform, proceed as follows:

1. To open the Registry Editor, click Start Run . In the Run dialog box, type regedit and click OK.2. In Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\TypeLib

\{0E59F1D2-1FBE-11D0-8FF2-00A0D10038BC}\1.0\0\win32.3. Double-click (Default) in the Name column on the right-hand side.

The Edit String dialog box displays the filepath for the Microsoft Script Control in the Value data text box.4. In the Value data text box, delete the quotation marks that enclose the filepath and click OK.

To correct the issue on a Windows Server 2008 x32 platform

To correct the issue on a 32-bit Windows Server 2008 platform, proceed as follows:

1. To open the Registry Editor, click Start Run . In the Run dialog box, type regedit and click OK.2. In Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib

\{0E59F1D2-1FBE-11D0-8FF2-00A0D10038BC}\ 1.0\0\win32.3. Double-click (Default) in the Name column on the right-hand side.

The Edit String dialog box displays the filepath for the Microsoft Script Control in the Value data text box.4. In the Value data text box, delete the quotation marks that enclose the filepath and click OK.


6.2 Known Limitations

6.2.1 Model Construction

6.2.1.1 Group Bar Does Not Scroll to Allow Dimensions to be Copied to Groups not in View (4636)

In the Model Builder Dimension Group Panel, it is not possible to drag a dimension from a group to another group that is not in the currently visible area of the screen. To move a dimension to a position beyond the current viewing area, you may need to move the dimension in stages.

6.2.1.2 Objective and Metrics Models: Transparency for Items in Icons Dimension Is Not Supported in Books

In Objectives and Metrics models, transparency of images is not supported for items assigned to the <Icons> dimension. This affects items in the Icons dimension, boundaries assignment, and grids.

6.2.2 Book Building

6.2.2.1 View Builder: Limitations in Graph Mode (4831)

Some grids cannot be represented in certain graphical forms - for example, when no headers exist on one of the axes. Limitations also exist for grids using the Replace with Keys option, which dynamically alters the view of grid data to your selection in the Pivot bar. This occurs because the graph identifies an item or value in a grid at design time according to its position in a grid, which is defined by its co-ordinates, which depend on the axes - for example a rendered item in a graph can be the Line Item value in the February row in the Rent column. If keys for a grid are changed dynamically at run time, the co-ordinates for the grid item change and the graph cannot find the item - and therefore cannot represent it.

For similar reasons, representation of expanded groups can also be affected with particular graph types.

6.2.3 End User Products

6.2.3.1 Font Size in Internet Explorer

The web client to view books does not support Internet Explorer's feature to change to small or large font sizes.



6.2.3.2 Objectives and Metrics Models: Keyboard Navigation of Book Controls in Web Client (5985)

For Objectives and Metrics models, the TAB key does not work for navigating around a Drill control when viewing a book in the web client.

6.2.3.3 Headers for Data Explorer Layouts Are Not Painted when a Layout is Viewed as a PDF on the Web (4712, 444, 5716)

When a Data Explorer layout in a book displays in PDF form in the web client, the headers for the data are not painted.

Suggested workaround: If the headers are required for a hard copy, print the book from within Internet Explorer and all the headers appear. However, we recommend that you make the Data Explorer information available via a Report control rather than use the PDF form.


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