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Restore Version Management?

Former Member — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:16:26 GMT

Apparantly a previous developer ran an update that erased all version management. I do not know if this is true, but what I can say is that there is no version management existing. It is causing a problem when we want to compare and/or retrieve. Since then I have figured out that you can get previous transport numbers with e.g. select * from e071 where obj_name eq p_objnam. This is a little bit useful, however I would like to ask our Basis Consultant to restore Version Management. Surely this is possible? Can anyone advise? Thank you. Best regards, Adrian

Re: Restore Version Management?

Former Member — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:23:05 GMT

But do you mean version management for all abap objects?

Max

Re: Restore Version Management?

Former Member — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:54:59 GMT

Yes, when you goto version management of any objects, you don't see for instance a date sequenced transport list. So that great functionality is gone. But you can trace the transports as mentions in table e071, but you still can't compare.

Re: Restore Version Management?

Former Member — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:06:48 GMT

The data of the versions of an abap object should be in table VRSD, I can't understand how somebody can delete it: it's the first time I hear something like that.

I know it can happen in certain scenario of upgrad....of course somebody can create a program to delete it.....

Anyway I'm not a basis, so I can only suppose It needs to restore that table by a backup, probably the problem it's if possible to restore a single table or whole enviroment.

Max

Re: Restore Version Management?

Former Member — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:21:01 GMT

I have seen it before a few years back when the client had a monthly habit of client copy PROD to DEV and then "scramble" the data. This was to "assist" developers with so-called proper data. Then the Version Management was also gone everytime. Really ridiculous, but thanks for your response. I'll keep investigating.

Re: Restore Version Management?

ThomasZloch — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:34:37 GMT

We have done very occasional copies from PRD to DEV, but always saved and restored the version history (VRSD and co.). I can still look at code from 1993, which can be quite funny...

Did you perform such a copy lately? Maybe there is still a backup that contains the versions, this could be restored to a sandbox and the versions transferred from there.

Does VRSD contain any entries when you check via SE16?

Thomas

Re: Restore Version Management?

Former Member — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:25:55 GMT

OK, that was quite interesting. This client has been running SAP since 1995 and 84.7% of the VRSD entries are dated after 1 January 2009. So a lot of version management has been lost, quite unfortunate. But now I have enough to discuss with Basis. Thank you both for your useful answers. Best regards, Adrian