The Need for a CMC Enhancement to Make Life Easier

[Former Member]

Good Morning All!! (Sort of...)

We are running BI4.0 SP7.1 and ran into an issue that took too many manhours to recover from.  This morning our OFRS did not enable itself and we had over 450 failed reports that had to be rescheduled by the Admins using the CMC.  The big problem is that after logging into the CMC and going to the instance manager, we had to click on each report individually to reschedule it to run.

Each user has database restrictions, so we could not just highlight them all and click 'Run Now'.  We were advised from support that there is no way to reschedule reports in bulk for a single selected user and thus resulted in taking 2 Admins 3 hours to complete.  Had we been ableto reschedule bulk reports for a single user, we would have been done within 30 minutes and utilized only 1 Admin.

If any of the SAP Developers are monitoring this, it would be a HUGE win for BI Enterprise to have this enhancement added.  It can be done on an individual level, why not expand that functionality to a bulk level?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Sounds like a good plan. Can you log it as an idea here https://ideas.sap.com/ , mention the link here and when people find this post they can 'like' the idea which may get picked up by the product group.

Hope that helps.

[Former Member]

You can also go to https://ideas.sap.comand and search for D11386.  Otherwise I looked at the link and was able to locate it using that URL.

[Former Member]

Thanks for the update. Have voted for it! What I see in your URL is https://ideas.sap.com/ct/ct_a_voew_idea.bix?c=BB5523E4-062F-4420-B35F-0B1F0D4769A9&idea_id=CEE91FA7-C0C1-4E3B-B315-0ACA635D4557

whereas the correct link is not VOEW but VIEW

https://ideas.sap.com/ct/ct_a_view_idea.bix?c=BB5523E4-062F-4420-B35F-0B1F0D4769A9&idea_id=CEE91FA7-C0C1-4E3B-B315-0ACA635D4557

I get a 404 error when I use the first link.  Anyway. Sorted. Good luck with the idea!

[Former Member]

Go to the link: https://ideas.sap.com/ct/ct_a_voew_idea.bix?c=BB5523E4-062F-4420-B35F-0B1F0D4769A9&idea_id=CEE91FA7-... and vote on this update request.

[Former Member]

Small spelling error resulting in link not working I'm afraid. Is this the correct one?

https://ideas.sap.com/ct/ct_a_view_idea.bix?c=BB5523E4-062F-4420-B35F-0B1F0D4769A9&idea_id=CEE91FA7-...

(Can you also mark your own question as answered, so it won't show up in the list of open issues)

[Former Member]

THis idea has been entered into the Idea Place under the BI Deployment and System Administration  and has the title of The Need to Reschedule Mass Docs in the CMC