Planning Guide for the Connector for SAP Landscape Management
The target system
An alternative to this is a refresh using a client copy. The test environment will then be missing audit documents, among other things, but the development objects will remain untouched. The client copy only works from a running SAP system, but it burdens the system with database queries and transfers data more slowly than a system copy. The affected client is not available during the copy process. Since there are no options within the client to select what all should be copied, the runtime is often unacceptable.
Strategy as of NetWeaver 2007: Prerequisite: in the case of a Unicode conversion, conversion must be performed during export. If the target database can be built with unsorted unloaded data, all packages are automatically unloaded unsorted. R3load ensures that tables that must always be unloaded sorted are unloaded sorted.
Test and training system: data anomyization, migration of master data, migration of user data / passwords
System copy of a Unicode system: Source and target system are Unicode systems. The same procedures can be used for the copy, as with the copy of non-Unicode systems.
In order to check whether the usable settings are correctly adjusted, especially in the case of large databases, the runtimes are automatically logged during the BDLS. Based on these results, it is possible to analyze how the runtime can be further optimized. By the way, BDLS reports and optimization options are displayed in the BSC GUI, including modification options.
The tool "Shortcut for SAP Systems" is excellently suited to complete an SAP system copy easier and faster.
Advantages: significant reduction of manual pre- and post-processing, documented, automatable and reproducible, quality assurance, in the productive system, customer-specific adaptations of the processes possible, individual templates can be created for each target system, no training necessary.
The Migration Monitor stores the state of the export or import process in the {ex|im}port_state.properties file.