Exporting process updates to SAP Solution Manager

You can export updates to process applications and business process definitions that are made in IBM® BPM back to SAP Solution Manager to be configured.

Before you begin

Ensure that the process application is imported from SAP Solution Manager. After you change the process application, take a snapshot before you export the process application.

About this task

After you finished editing the process application and customizing its business models in Process Designer, you can load the updates from Process Center to SAP Solution Manager:
  • Business process definitions (BPD) are exported as SAP processes.
  • If the process application contains new business process definitions, corresponding SAP business processes, steps, and transactions are created.
  • If some business process definitions were updated, the corresponding SAP business processes, steps, and transactions are also updated.
  • If it does not exist, a document for the SAP process is created in SAP Solution Manager, which provides a URL that points back to the IBM BPM process.

To export updated BPDs from Process Center to SAP Solution Manager:

Procedure

  1. In Process Center, on the Process App tab, select the application snapshot that contains the updates that you want to export, and then click Export Process App.
  2. In the Export Process App window, select SAP Solution Manager for the export type, and then click OK.
  3. Complete the wizard.
    • If the password for the connection to SAP Solution Manager is saved as described in the Connecting to SAP Solution Manager procedure and the connection is active, the processes that can be exported are listed.
    • All the changes made to the BPD in IBM BPM after the first export are listed for comparison on the Display Changes page, and are automatically exported back to SAP Solution Manager through subsequent exports.
    • If you want to exclude items from the export, in the process selection page of the Export Process App wizard, click Exclude Items, select the check boxes that correspond to the items that you want to exclude from the export, and then click Export. The selected items will no longer be listed on the process selection page for future exports.

Results

When the export is complete, you can see that the business processes are updated in SAP Solution Manager.
Parent topic: SAP Solution Manager integration