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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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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