Issue during Client Copy

[Former Member]

Hello Gurus,

We want to perform client copy from

PRD client 100 to DEV client 700 , before that we performed "remote client copy" TEST run , and found that it failed, with some messages like

Table CE11000 is incompatible, fields are missing in both systems

Table CE21000 is incompatible, fields are missing in both systems

Table CE31000 is incompatible, fields are missing in both systems

Table T2500 is convertible to the RFC system, field missing locally

Table T25A0 is convertible to the RFC system, field missing locally

Table ZLRDET is convertible to the RFC system, field missing locally

6 Tables cannot be converted

There are 94 non-critical differences in the table structures

Table definition K9RPRD2220006 missing in the target system

Critical differences: Missing tables: 1

It seems that a lot of changes were made in the DEV system but not transported to PRD.

We were trying to perform "client export/import" on the DEV700 client and it stuck midway with error stating "K9RPRD2220006 was not in the NAMETAB".

I have some queries

1) Will the client "export/import" be successful if we do it in a Fresh client say 800 in DEV system ??

2) Since there are lot of tables which require changes in DEV to map it accordingly with PRD, is there a work around with which we can "Ignore" this errors ??

Looking forward for your reply !!

Thank You.

Regards,

Victor

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Whenever you are doing remote client copy, you need to make sure that the repository strucutres of both the systems are same. This can be checked in the Tcode scc9 of the target system. So, in the Dev you go to the tcode scc9 and there you will give all the details and there is a tab on the top, RFC compariosion check. Click on that and it will check whether the repository structure is same. It will also display the results. If this is failed then, you cannot do the copy. But, there is an option to exclude certain tables. This can be done in the same Tcode. go to the menu and there go to expert setting and click on the tab tables. There you mention the table names which you want to exclude and start you client copy. It will copy all the data except the tables mentioned there.

Regards,

Srini

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Srini,

We did the same thing.. we used the "test" mode and excluded the above tables but unfortunately these are still getting detected.

I actually wonder how client copy is done in big organizations where lot of developers make changes to the "Workbench" objects and they never "transport" them to PRD system.

Isn't the DEV system for "new" developments ?? Is there no chance that these development fail and they are never transported to PRD environment ??

Can anyone suggest , if there is any other way to get only the data from PRD system to DEV ??

Considering that "system refresh" is not feasible as there is space crunch in DEV system

Regards,

Victor

[sunny_pahuja2 · Accepted solution]

In most of the organizations, there is one quality system between production and development where client copy/system refreshes are carried out. Production data should not be in development system as it is security issue as well.

Also, that is one of the limitations of 2 system landscape.

Thanks

Sunny

[Former Member]

Please go to expert options of the client copy and try excluding these tables and see if the test run goes through. It worked for me for some customer tables.

[sunny_pahuja2]

Hi,

Client copy cannot copy workbench data. So, even if you do export/import or other method, you have to make sure that workbench on source and target should be same otherwise client will fail.

And error that you got in test run is because of this problem only.

Thanks

Sunny

[Former Member]

Hello Sunny,

What will be the outcome if we

1) Do a client copy on a FRESH CLIENT ??

2) If we take export of SAP_APPL and SAP_CUSV separately ?? and then try to import it in a Fresh client ??

Excluding the tables/packages does not work .. it still encounters the difference in the tables...

Please let us know.

Thank You.

Regards,

Victor

[sunny_pahuja2]

Hi,

If you will create new client then also you cannot copy workbench. You have to make sure that before client copy workbench should be same. So, if you can transport those settings to this target client and then do the client copy then it will be successful..

Thanks

Sunny