Best Practice transport procedure for SRM-MDM Catalogue repositories change

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have a question regarding SRM-MDM Catalogue repository change transports.

We currently have two QA servers and to Production servers (main and fail-over).

We are investigating the need of a Development server.

Changes are being made to the repositories on the system, and I see the need of a dev server.

What is best practice for SRM-MDM Catalogue?

With only QA and Prod environments I guess Repository schema transport is the best option, since there has not been created a Refference file (which is needed for change file transport).

Any other options?

We are running MDM as well, with dev, QA and prod environments. Here we use CTS+ for transports.

Is it best practice to use CTS+ also for SRM-MDM Catalogue transports?

KR,

Thomas

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

https://websmp104.sap-ag.de/installmdm71

with this site you will be able to get all the details on best practice, how to guides and other relevant details

regards,

Abhishek

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Abhishek,

The site you mention is very good to get information about MDM, but I have not found much about SRM-MDM.

The only link I find is this:

[original link is broken]

Here I find the SAP Help etc.

However, I have not been able to find the information I am looking for.

That is why I am trying on the forum.

KR,

Thomas

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

SRM-MDM repositories work on top of MDM architecture, so CTS+ will also work

regards,

Abhishek

[former_member206388]

Hi Thomas.

What is best practice for SRM-MDM Catalogue?

SAP recommends to have the landscape model like DEV-QA-PROD.

So in case of catalog as well if we follow the same technique it will help you to have a successful implementation

Any other options?

As a part of proceeding with the CTS+ you need to create a reference file

Refer the Link: [CTS+|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d0dd1ae0-36e5-2b10-f8b4-e6365e643c0b?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true] for more details

Is it best practice to use CTS+ also for SRM-MDM Catalogue transports?

It is upto the requirement. if you feel there are many changes in catalog xml schema in various phases in an automatic manner then you can go ahead with CTS+ or you can perform the existing method of exporting and importing the schema to the repository.

Hope it helps.

Best Regards

Bala

Edited by: chandar_sap on Sep 28, 2011 12:17 PM