Several advantages at once
This is why companies need professional test data management
To meet ever-changing business requirements, a production system must be continuously developed and adapted after the initial installation. To do this, you need development, consolidation, and quality assurance (QA) systems that can provide the appropriate updates to the production system as SAP transports.
With the definition of package groups, the parallel processing of packages can be configured beyond the definition of the order: All defined groups run in parallel to each other. For each group the parameters jobNum, taskArgs and loadArgs can be defined separately.
Applicability of Systemcopy as a Service
Normally, therefore, the target system is created using a copy of the production system. The advantages here are: After the initial setup, data is already available, and users receive a completely identical test environment. However, the disadvantages of this procedure are the high memory requirements, the lack of anonymization of the data and the long runtime of the copy process.
Transaction IMIG comes with extensive online documentation. It describes the preparations, the general procedure in the form of a quick guide, the individual steps in detail, typical error situations and the problem-solving procedure.
With "Shortcut for SAP Systems", tasks in the area of SAP system copying are simplified and can also be automated via the command line interface.
SAP system and instance operations.
These tables are saved and later imported back into the newly built system: TBDLST, TBDLS, RFCDES, RFCATTRIB, RFCCMC, RFCDOC, RFCSYSACL, RFCTRUST, EDP12, EDP13, EDP21, EDIPOI, EDIPO2, EDIPOA, EDIPOD, EDIPOF, EDIPOI, EDIPORT, EDIPOX, EDIPOXH, TBD00T, TBD05, TBD06, TBDBR, TBDBRF, RFCATTRIB, RFCCMC, RFCDES, RFCDOC, RFCSYSACL, RFCTRUST.