User transaction activity for named user types
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- UpdatedJan 30, 2025
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- Yokohama
- Software Asset Management
Determine license optimizations for your SAP named user types based on your SAP user transaction activity.
User transaction activities are the transactions or tasks that users perform on an SAP client. These activities are based on SAP transaction codes (t-codes), which are the shortcuts that enable you to identify and perform these transactions or tasks. When you run scheduled jobs for SAP, the Software Asset Management application retrieves the SAP transaction codes that were actively used by your SAP users.
When you create a reclamation rule for an SAP named user type, you can specify the transaction codes and the minimum number of those transaction codes that must be active for a user to keep their assigned named user license. During reconciliation, the Software Asset Management application compares these transaction codes against the discovered user transaction codes for the named user type. You can view the resulting data in the Users for Transaction Based License Optimization report on the Software Publisher Analytics dashboard for SAP. Use this information to optimize your named user license position by downgrading licenses or reclaiming unused licenses. See Software Publisher Analytics dashboard for SAP in Software Asset Management classic for more information on this report.
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- Deploy the ABAP program for SAP
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- Establish an SAP connection
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- Create entitlements for SAP
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- Create software models for SAP
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- Create a custom SAP named user type
Create a custom SAP named user type so that you can track and manage your SAP licenses based on the named user type that is specific to your SAP system.
- Map a role to a named user type
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- Create custom SAP price lists
Create custom SAP price lists so that you can track and manage SAP licenses based on the contracts that are specific to your SAP system.
- Import custom SAP named user types
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- Import custom SAP price lists
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- SAP USMM-based optimization
Optimize licensing through SAP User License Measurement (USMM) rules that map roles to the Named User Type for an SAP client.
- Self-declaring SAP engine license usage
You can self-declare the license usage for any SAP engines that cannot be measured by the automated SAP engine measurement process. Use this information to gain more comprehensive visibility into your SAP license compliance position so that you can optimize your licensing costs.
- Software Publisher Analytics dashboard for SAP in Software Asset Management classic
View your license compliance position for SAP on the Software Publisher Analytics dashboard in the Software Asset Management classic application.
- Publisher overview for SAP in the Software Asset Workspace
View license usage information related to SAP in the publisher overview for SAP in the Software Asset Workspace.