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Cross-client SAP user listing

Hello!
You might be faced with the task to create a really comprehensive user listing for a SAP system with several productive clients – even including 000 and 066.

This is usually a boring task, as you have to log in to every client… gather the list… proceed to the next client… and so on…
Apart from dying of boredom you might run into the problem of not having access to all clients (e.g. 066). 😕

Mediocre solution:

Write a report like this:

REPORT.
TABLES: usr02.
 
SELECT * FROM usr02 CLIENT SPECIFIED ORDER BY mandt.
  WRITE: / usr02-mandt, usr02-bname.
ENDSELECT.

Pro: Easy, simple, fast.
Con: Has to be transported, protected… and using "CLIENT SPECIFIED" is considered bad code by many companies!

Slick solution:

Use the report RSUVM005, which is intended for system measurement: it gives you a list of (almost!) all users on the clients you specify on the selection screen.
Still the list is missing a few users, because SAP quite rightly considers them irrelevant for licensing — they are automatically filtered out by the report (or more specifically: by the function module SLIM_EXCLUDE_USER):

To get the comprehensive user listing, we just need a cross-client selection for those excluded user names in addition.
Fortunately you can simply achieve this via tcode SM21 and (mis-)use the "User" field to check for the existence of the missing users on other clients.

Now you can compile the cross-client user listing from within one client…
😎