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Replicating master data from Production to Development system!

Former Member — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:09:06 GMT

Hi all,

We wish to replicate master data from R/3 PRD system to our R/3 Development system. The reason is that missing master data impedes the testing speed and quality that can be done in the unit test environment.

We would like to do this 2x a year by means of a standard procedure.

What are the options(tech. solutions) to achieve this and which one is the most suitable?

Thank you in advance.

Kind regards,

Vedad Handzo

Re: Replicating master data from Production to Development system!

ThomasZloch — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:17:57 GMT

SAP offers the TDMS solution (test data migration server), please have a look in this forum:

Thomas

Re: Replicating master data from Production to Development system!

Former Member — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:40:56 GMT

Hi Thomas,

TDMS solution would add extra costs to our plans. This would require necessary approvals and therefore a larger scope than we defined from the outset. Furthermore, the added costs coming from a paid solution could kill the business case for this initiative.

What standard solutions does SAP offer within R3 system that is already included in our licence (and therefore free of charge) to get a specific set of our master data from PRD to DEV?

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Vedad Handzo

Re: Replicating master data from Production to Development system!

ThomasZloch — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:17:36 GMT

Already included is data distribution via ALE using IDocs, please find available information, a starting point is:

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/ale

Some SAP modules offer simple download/upload techniques like FS15/FS16 for G/L accounts, it's a matter of which data exactly should be transferred. LSMW offers a lot of predefined migration objects, the input data could come from simple SE16 downloads from production.

Many ways, different complexity and robustness.

Thomas

Re: Replicating master data from Production to Development system!

madhu_vadlamani — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:42:27 GMT

Hi Vedad,

Make the necessary ale set up and move the master data from production server that target server. it will easily move ,if it not there it will create. This is a good and easy process.You can start from material master,customer,vendor,gl,wcentre,cost centre,bom,routing. Post if need help in this.

Regards,

Madhu.

Re: Replicating master data from Production to Development system!

Former Member — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:23:01 GMT

Thanks a lot Madhu. If you happen to have a link to a good manual for setting this up, I would be most thankful.

Kind regards,

Vedad

Re: Replicating master data from Production to Development system!

madhu_vadlamani — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:41:30 GMT

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Re: Replicating master data from Production to Development system!

madhu_vadlamani — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:17:07 GMT

Hi vedad,

There are some good threads are available on this.This is from help.sap.com.I hope this will help you in the same way you can send other modules data also.

[Material master send|http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/CABFAALEQS/CABFAALEQS.pdf]

Regards,

Madhu.

Edited by: madhurao123 on Sep 21, 2011 5:47 PM