Integrating Into Financial Closing Cockpit

Financial closing cockpit (FCc) lets you organize you closing procedures and have the process followed in real time, all automated tasks are carried out with a minimal delay, when a task requires user intervention, the user can be alerted from within FCc via email, for example, and the alert can be escalated if it is not resolved in a timely manner. This allows fluid closing processes and greatly reduces the time it takes to close the books. Redwood Server is the scheduler which organizes and triggers all automated tasks in time across your system landscape, which can include SAP and non-SAP Systems. For example, when you previously had to run a process on a UNIX system to populate a database with data after which the SAP team could proceed with the launch an ABAP to process that data the time between the two steps could be quite long; with Redwood Server the time between those two tasks can be automated and reduced to a second or less. When you have setup FCc, you can follow Redwood Server FCc-related tasks in both FCc and Redwood Server.

Sending Spool Files to Financial Closing Cockpit

You can make all output of the process chain available in FCc by specifying the parameter SAP_APPSAPI_CHAIN_GET_OUTPUT.

This parameter accepts two values:

• A - to be set on the parent process definition of the process chain; will force all output to be available in FCc.
• M - to be set on the parent process definition and the child process definition of which you want the output.

Prerequisites

• SAP Basis release 7.50 or later
• SAP Enhancement Package 3 for SAP ECC 6.0
• A SAP Application connection to the Redwood Server RFC server

FCc integration requires the ProcessServerService.SAP.cc license key. If you want to be able to send email, you also need the Module.Mail license key.

Procedure

Adding a Redwood Server task to a FCc task list

1. Open transaction CLOCOC.
2. Open your task list or choose Other Template/Task List from the Template/task List menu and choose a task list.
3. Choose the Edit button and make sure the name of your task list is followed by Change in the title bar of SAPGUI.
4. Choose New Task from the context-menu of a folder in the task list hierarchy.
5. In the Closing Cockpit Display/Create/Change Task window choose Remote Task and select the name of a Redwood Server process definition in the Remote Task field (you may select any process definition the Redwood Server user is allowed to use).
6. Fill in a Queue and parameters, if there are any, just as you would in Redwood Server.

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If you do not have the Remote Task field, then you do not have correctly set up a connection to a Redwood Server RFC server.

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You can also create a task list template, import one from FCc or Solution Manager, or create a task list. That is out of the scope of this guide. Please see the SAP related documentation for more information on FCc.

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