topic Problem with DEV Refresh in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Problem with DEV Refresh

Former Member — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:46:26 GMT

Hi,

We are doing a system upgrade from SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0 and we are starting it by upgrading our DEV & then analyzing the impact on it, so we want to refresh DEV with the latest PRD data. My question is that since the DBSID of our DEV and PRD will be different, how will it be possible to refresh it? Will we need to change some thing in the control file after the restore? If so, how do we do it?

Thanks,

Manjula.

Re: Problem with DEV Refresh

Former Member — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:00:01 GMT

If you do that, you will lose all your change history for your programs.

Rob

Re: Problem with DEV Refresh

Former Member — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:38:33 GMT

Hi,

You can refresh DEV from PRD by way of a homogeneous (or heterogeneous) system copy, but you might not want to. There are several very good threads on this topic, since the question comes up every few months. The major pitfalls surround development or customizing in progress that has never made it to PRD, and the fact that you will lose your DEV version management history. The "minor" pitfalls involve the fact that DEV system are typically not sized for PRD data volume, and you may end up with sensitive data on your DEV system - where authorizations are necessarily more relaxed than PRD. If you have HR data in PRD, consider it a no-no without using a data refresh tool that scrambles sensitive data in the process.

I don't keep track of all of the niceties of the subject, since I personally would never want to refresh DEV; if you search the forum archives, you should find quite a lot of good information. All of the technical details you need are Monitoring Users Zin there, somewhere.

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Cheers,

Chandra Sekhar.