ChaRM Go-Live: Part 1

Today we’re going live with ChaRM on the HCM landscape at my customer in western Pennsylvania. We took off the holiday weekend, and started first thing in the morning – accompanied by my own homemade chocolate chip cookies and brownies (one of the perks of commuting by car to work).

The first issue we found is that the Change Administrator didn’t have access to create the CTS project in the development system. An issue that was easy enough to correct, but a Security consultant had activated CUA and then left. And then we couldn’t access CUA. Sigh. With a temporary rejiggering (shhhh, don’t tell anyone), we got that fixed.

Then we find out the QA system is down, so we’re getting all sorts of errors on the system landscape. Now that it’s back up, we had to regenerate the RFCs to it. But our maintenance project needed to be recreated.

Now it is 1:00 in the afternoon, and we are still not live. ChaRM is not recognizing our QA system as a target system for some reason. We have checked the setup of our maintenance project, STMS, the logical components, everything we can think of, but we finally had to submit it to SAP with a Very High priority. (And let the customer employee in Australia go to bed.) I’m hoping that this is just something small and trivial we missed and SAP will be able to point it out in 5 minutes. Very frustrating.