SAP Code Decommissioning
unique requirements. Changing requirements and evolving standards and technologies can make
it less relevant and secure. smartShift’s automated safe code decomissioning is the best way to
remove burdensome technical debt to reduce risk and untether your developers.
The Challenge of Legacy ABAP Code
Maintainability/Cost

- Unused code increases the code base in scope of any upgrade (e.g. S/4HANA)
- Unused code increases maintenance cost and slows down response times
Knowledge Silos

- Much knowledge of custom code is institutional, and people may be unwilling to openly share it
- Developers who created custom code may no longer be available
Technical Debt

- 40-60% of the custom code in an SAP system may be unused
- Code utilization may not be tracked to support decommissioning decisions
- Lack of understanding of utilization wastes time and money when unused code is investigated or remediated
Security

- Unused code is often older code that is more likely to be out-of-compliance with security best practices
- Decommissioned custom code is secure custom code
Why use smartShift’s ABAP Code Decommissioning Solution?
Unused code increases the code base in scope for any upgrade, migration or conversion project, increasing the complexity, risk and cost in all phases. EHP and SPS upgrades, HANA migrations, and S/4HANA conversions are made much more difficult they need to be. Removing unused code before your upcoming SAP modernization project will allow you to focus on your strategic custom code, and help you avoid being burdened by accumulated technical debt.
Unused code is additional code that needs to be analyzed and maintained. 40% to 60% of software maintenance efforts may be devoted to analyzing and understanding existing code, before determining where useful changes can be made. If obsolete code exists, programmers must spend time understanding it, which increases your maintenance efforts and costs.
Similarly, unused code negatively impacts your response time for production issues or the implementation of needed enhancement to meet business and operational needs and provide competitive differentiation. Also, regression testing scenarios are typically designed to cover all code, so the unused code adds unnecessary time, cost and complexity there as well.
Another very important reason to remove unused code from your SAP Systems is security. Older code is likely to have been developed based on standards that evolve over time. Because of this, that code often relies on security loopholes which translate to real security vulnerabilities that leave you at risk of a breach.
smartShift provides a risk-averse and safe approach to decommission custom code from SAP repositories. Depending on the type (ST03N, UPL, SCMON) and amount (retention period) of usage data available, smartShift can implement different approaches for code decommissioning (1 step, 2 step with tracking, etc.) Any decommissioned code is always available to restore, and we provide the mechanisms to know when it’s necessary and get it back into production quickly and easily.
A Safe and Thorough ABAP Code Decommissioning Solution
Analysis
smartShift uses and enhances standard SAP reports and data to create detailed and relevant analyses of your code utilization.
Decommissioning
Safe decommissioning comments out code and inserts system messages that alert users if deactivated code is invoked. Once the choice is made to remove objects, they are archived for potential reactivation.
Scoping
smartShift presents analysis results and works with you to determine the scope for decomissioning or further tracking
Upgrade
Analyze code custom code for upgrade, Unicode, HANA, S/4HANA, cloud readiness, code standardization and modernization issues
Tracking
Continuous ModernizationSM
Ongoing code modernization, optimization and deactivation can be integrated into our smartOne managed services to align with the evolution of your systems and requirements.
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