Consideration of additional QA clients
SAP system/instance move
The maturity and performance of automation tools for SAP system copying have evolved over a period of more than 15 years. The first tools for SAP system copy creation came from the mainframe environment.
Packages that have not been explicitly assigned a special DDLORA file receive the DDL file specified via the "ddlFile=" parameter. The default is DDLORA.TPL.
Reliable and fast rework after SAP® system copies
Companies with backup systems can use these for a client copy and thus save on the computing power of the productive system. However, the burden of copying falls on the SAN. Because the reliability is limited by the misuse of the backup system and the storage network is additionally burdened, users should keep the runtime of this refresh variant as short as possible.
For a long time, manual procedures dominated, supported by SAP (guidelines), in particular by predefined procedures and a large number of checklists. In many places, this was supplemented by scripts created in-house, which, however, only automated partial tasks/processes of an SAP system copy.
Tools such as "Shortcut for SAP Systems" supplement missing functions in the area of SAP system copy.
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After shutting down the target system, the technical system copy for upgrade 1 can be created at the infrastructure level.
For example, when it comes to creating system copies of a production environment on the test and quality assurance (QA) system.