required-business-roles-01c96ed.md

Required Business Roles

Different actions require different roles as well. In the process description, the following role proposals are used:

• System Administrator

  • Creates ABAP systems in the SAP BTP cockpit
  • Needs authorization for space/organization management in the Cloud Foundry environment subaccount

• User Administrator

  • Maintains business roles and assigns users to them

  • Needs authorization for business catalogs

    Catalog ID	Catalog Description	Needed For
    SAP_CORE_BC_IAM_UM	Identity and Access Management – User Management	Creating and maintaining business users with Maintain Business Users app
    SAP_CORE_BC_IAM_RM	Identity and Access Management –Role Management	Maintaining business roles with Maintain Business Roles app

• Release Manager

  • Performs tasks that are executed centrally for a release, such as software component creation and import, making the release decision, approving corrections, creating and releasing transports etc.
  • Needs authorization for business catalogs

  Catalog ID	Catalog Description	Needed For
  SAP_A4C_BC_MSCL_PC	Lifecycle Management - Software Components	Creating and importing software components with Manage Software Components app
  SAP_A4C_BC_TRN_REL_PC	Development - Transport Release Management	Releasing transport requests in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse
  SAP_CORE_BC_IAM_UM	Identity and Access Management - User Management	Un-/locking developers for corrections in correction ABAP systems with Maintain Business Users app
  SAP_CORE_BC_IAM_RA	Identity and Access Management – Role Assignment	En-/disabling developers for corrections in correction ABAP systems by role assignment with Maintain Business Users app
  SAP_CORE_BC_BCT_TRN_REL_PC	Business Configuration - Transport Release Management	Creating, editing, and releasing customizing transports with Export Customizing Transports app

• Developer

  • Develops the code and performs tests

  • Needs authorization for business catalogs

    Catalog ID	Catalog Description	Needed For
    SAP_A4C_BC_DEV_PC	Development – ABAP Development Tools	Developing in ADT for Eclipse
    SAP_A4C_BC_TRN_MNG_PC	Development – Transport Management	Creating transport requests in ADT for Eclipse

• Tester

  • Tests the software

    Note:

    Depending on your organization, the tasks of this role can be performed by automatic test tools, developers, or dedicated persons that are responsible for executing manual tests.

  • Needs authorizations for custom business catalogs created via IAM business catalogs for custom apps.

    Caution:

    Do not assign catalog SAP_CORE_BC_EXT_TST (Extensibility - Custom Apps and Services) to a tester.

    As this catalog is used to provide an easy test of custom apps or their underlying services in a development ABAP system only by adding them automatically to it during activation, real service tests with own catalogs might not be tested securely. In non-development systems, automatic authorization via business catalogSAP_CORE_BC_EXT_TST is not enabled, instead custom authorization is required.

• Business Configuration Expert

  • Maintains and tests business configuration

    Catalog ID	Catalog Description	Needed For
    SAP_CA_BC_IC_LND_PC	Customizing - Business Configuration	General business configuration tasks, such as uploading business configuration or viewing the change log for business configuration
    SAP_CORE_BC_BCT_TRN_MNG_PC	Business Configuration - Transport Management	Creating and editing customizing transports
    Application-specific catalog with configuration apps, for example SAP_CA_BC_IC_LND_NUM_PC	Example: Number Range Management - Configuration	Configuring number ranges