BDLS in productive ERP system

[former_member192350]

I have an interesting requirement. A customer is currently running R/3 4.7 with multiple countries. They want to split the system so one country has it's own system. The approach has been to take the existing 3-system landscape and perform a homogeneous system copy to a new landscape. The catch is that they want to use the same corporate BI system for reporting, so BDLS must be run in the new landscape since these new systems will be connecting to the same BI system as the originals.

We know SAP doesn't officially support running BDLS in a productive system like this, but we don't see any other options. I've looked at the SAP Landscape Transformation documents, and while the Solution Map references "Split Systems" under the "Consolidate and Reduce IT Cost" Scenario, the guides don't include any documentation for this scenario.

I've split systems before, for example when a company sells off a subsidiary, but in those instances we left the old logical system intact.

Does anyone have any suggestions that would allow us to split the production system and have both resulting systems connect to the same BI system for reporting purposes?

Thanks,

Rich

[former_member189725]

My suggestion would be to run BDLS to change the logical system name of the ECC client only on the copied system.

Do not run the BDLS for changing the logical system name for BI client in the copied ECC system.

Before you do such a critical activity , make sure you simulate the steps on a temporary environment i.e building test systems for simulation. This would be quite a good approximation of the things to come .