Authorizations in SAP BW, HANA and BW/4HANA
What are the advantages of SAP authorizations?
Despite progressive use of web interfaces in the S/4HANA context, batch processing for mass data is still required. However, our experience from customer projects shows that only very few authorization administrators know how to correctly authorize the scenarios. SAP OSS Note 101146 provides a good overview here. In this blog post, we would like to summarize the context for practical use.
If transactions are changed in the role menu of a single role, this option is automatically suggested to the operator. In this option, the profile generator will match the pre-existing permissions data with the SU24 transaction permission proposals from the role menu. If new permissions are added to the permission tree during this comparison, they will be marked with the Update status New. Permissions that existed before the match are assigned the Alt update status.
Authorization object documentation
You can also use the SU53 transaction to centrally view failed permission checks. Open the transaction and go to Permissions > Other Users or F5 to the User Selection menu. Enter the user whose permissions have failed in the field with the same name. In the results list, you can see permissions that have failed for each user, as in our example, the missing permission to display the AGR_1251 table. You can see that more than one authorization object appears in this evaluation.
For the assignment of existing roles, regular authorization workflows require a certain minimum of turnaround time, and not every approver is available at every go-live. With "Shortcut for SAP systems" you have options to assign urgently needed authorizations anyway and to additionally secure your go-live.
The website "www.sap-corner.de" offers a lot of useful information about SAP authorizations.
If you need to translate many roles, there are also automation options that we present here.