Answers to common questions regarding installing Bulk Calclulations Solution (BCS) (BCP and BCG) on your systems
The QuantityWare BCP or BCG usage key is installed via the Petroleum Measurement Cockpit (PMC – transaction /qtyw/cockpit) or Gas Measurement Cockpit (GMC – transaction /n/qtyw/cockpit_gas).
For every SAP system, you need to install its own SAP system-specific usage key.
Older BCS Versions
If you have not installed BCS 30A CSP02 or BCS 30B CSP01 (released September 2021):
- The menu item to select is “Licenses” (not “Usage Keys”)
- In the maintenance dialog box,
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For 95% of our customers, these are irrelevant and should not be used.
QuantityWare usage keys are issued based on:
- SAP installation number
- SAP SID
- BCS product (e.g. BCP and / or BCG)
- an expiry date
Such keys are applied to an SAP Oil, Gas, and Energy (SAP OG&E) system with BCS installed and allow the usage of the specific BCS product in all clients within the SID.
When completing a Test Usage Key Request form (previously known as Test License Request Form),
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Yes.
Performing an S/4 to S/4 upgrade while retaining QuantityWare BCS is a simple task as described in the FAQ “S/4 -> S/4 System Upgrade – Technical procedure“. However, are there any “best practices” to be considered from the application perspective?
Before upgrade:
- Check that all available QuantityWare (QW) notes are installed – see Note 000067. If not, install
- Run the QuantityWare Installation Test (see PAIG chapter 5.1) in your reference client to see if current the installation is consistent from a QW-delivery perspective
- Run all customer test scenarios to check if the configuration in all clients / systems in which QW is active and being used (e.g.
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You are upgrading an SAP OG&E S/4 system (e.g. 1809 to 1909) in which BCS has been installed and used.
All QuantityWare (QW) BCS-supported SAP OG&E releases are listed in QW Note 000086 along with the corresponding QW BCS version. Retain QW BCS in your system during the upgrade procedure between S/4 releases by selecting “KEEP VERSION” in the phase PREP_EXTENSIONS/IS_SELECT. Ensure that all valid maintenance transports and files have been imported to the system before starting the upgrade preparation.
See the “Best Practices” FAQ for recommended BCS application actions.
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QuantityWare delivers all language dependent quantity conversion template configuration data for the following languages (in alphabetical order):
- English
- French
- Portuguese
- Spanish
These are contained in the current BC-Set. Thus, the language content is only available in the client in which the BC-Set was activated. It must be transported to other clients if required. The main configuration objects, which are visible to users in business transactions, are the reading group parameter descriptions.
The Petroleum Measurement Cockpit (PMC) and the Gas Measurement Cockpit (GMC) transactions are only provided in English.
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You have installed QuantityWare BCS, following the Technical Installation Manual. You have executed the QuantityWare Installation Test in client 045 successfully. When posting goods movements (e.g. via transaction MIGO), you receive an MSEGO1 short dump:
Solution:
In the BCS 3.0 Technical Installation Manual | Page 14 of 38, it says:
Before starting the installation, read the following SAP Notes and documentation:
Note Description: QuantityWare CDS Extensions For IS-OIL
Note Number: 232799
Make sure that you have read that note and installed and executed the report mentioned therein after the technical installation.
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As described in SAP Note 2645739, 3rd parties working with SAP whose Add-On packages are not delivered by SAP through the SAP Software Download Portal, have no access to SAP digital signature technologies.
QuantityWare has a high commitment to security and provides SHA-512 checksums for all files which can be downloaded from the QuantityWare Service Portal. Ensure that the checksum(s) of your downloaded package(s) and those published in the service portal match, before applying the package(s) in question.
Consult the SPAM / SAINT online documentation regarding the workaround for this issue:
((More →) Extras → Settings → Load Packages → Check Archive Signature).
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With QuantityWare BCS, a complete quantity conversion configuration template is delivered. This template contains also more than 400 Unit of Measure (UoM) definitions. These UoM definitions are a set of SAP-defined UoM definitions – delivered also in SAP client 000 – and new QuantityWare-defined UoM definitions (e.g. gross volume, gross mass and gross weight UoM).
UoM definitions are not protected by a dedicated namespace within your SAP system. Thus, they may overwrite already existing UoM (with possibly different meaning) in other clients, with fatal consequences – typically requiring massive effort to resolve such a conflict.
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In your client 045 (development system), you execute the QuantityWare BCS installation test via the Petroleum and/or Gas Measurement Cockpit (PMC / GMC).
In order to do so, two conditions have to be met:
- A valid BCP or BCG usage key needs to be installed in your system (see FAQ Usage Key Installation)
- The BCP or BCG BC Set has to be activated in client 045
If these conditions are not met, the “Run Installation Test”
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You receive the following detailed error messages from the BCP configuration check test, which is part of the BCP installation test, when you execute it in your client 045:
Reason:
Your new client 045 contained all or some of the BCP 1.0B configuration template data. This data was overwritten during the new BCP 3.0 BC set activation run. However, obsolete 1.0B configuration template entries were not deleted. This is a non-critical issue.
Issue Resolution:
Launch the PMC and navigate to “Environment ->
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During an upgrade, or at any system life-cycle event which could affect SAP Oil, Gas and Energy (SAP OG&E) functionality or customization / configuration, customer Test Scenarios are especially valuable. Read note 000086 – page 6 and references therein (especially note 000073) to learn about all details.
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Yes.
The QuantityWare BCS 3.0 package supports a de-installation.
Technically, this is achieved through selecting the Add-On component “QTYW” in the “Deinstallable components” tab-list in the SAP transaction SAINT and following the specific SAINT documentation published by SAP.
- In a non-productive system, this procedure poses no issues.
- In a productive system, such a process should be carefully considered and is not recommended.
Read Note 000085 for further explanations.
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