Work with Firefighter IDs

GRC-SAC-EAM (Emergency Access Management) also known as Firefighter IDs in SAP refers to an emergency access to perform an activity. This is done through firefighter (Virsa) IDs that have elevated and specific security rights.

As per SAP Note 1378276, SAP does not support mass transaction activities using firefighter application. Here's some information from this note (Refer to OSS note mentioned below for complete details)

Symptom

Customer wants to execute mass transaction activities such as the Data Conversion utility and mass Master data upload via the Firefighter application. The Firefighter product does not support this mass transaction use case.

Other Terms

/VIRSA/VFAT, /VIRSA/ZVFATBAK, Superuser Privilege Management, Firefighter, Mass Transaction, Log Collector, Log Report, Firefighter Performance, Emergency Access Mangement, EAM10.0 , EAM10.1, GRAC_SPM, GRAC_EAM, /GRCPI/GRIA_EAM

Reason and Prerequisites

The large amount of data associated with mass transaction or maintenance may cause the log collector job to run beyond the next scheduled job start. This may cause data inconsistency and high system resource consumption. This may also result in a negative performance impact on both the Firefighter application and other applications running on the same server. Hence, SAP doesn't support this use case through the Firefighter application.

With this background information, we recommend that you avoid using firefighter application for such use cases. For further assistance, please create a support case on Salesforce.