DMS and System Copies

[michael_teixeira2]

Good Day Everyone,

We regularly refresh our development and QA system from our productions system and would like to get some ideas on how to best deal with documents stored in the DMS in the target systems.

In our environment we have an ERP system which is connected to a KPRO system

The problem we have is that in the newly copied target system (development) we change the storage category to a non-productive one. However
the document links for the individual records still point to the old production storage category.

My questions are:

1. Is there a way that we can rename all documents links to the new storage category?

2. Is there a way that we can migrate only selected data from the production storage category to the development storage category? Ideally looking for standard SAP tools. I have looked at the following thread and seems like it may assist in some migration task but not sure if it will actually work to just copy between the different storage categories on the same server. http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/PLM/Moving+a+content+repository

3. We want to run both the development and production storage categories on the same KPRO server. Is this possible? If yes is there anything
we should take cognisance of?

Thank you in advance

[Former Member]

Hi Michael,

what you can do is, to use logical content repositories.

Your storage category will be mapped to a logical content repository lets say C_01.

In customizing (TA OAC0) you can specify a symbolic repository name using the system-id like C_<SYSID>_01.

After copying your system you have all documents still in the same storage category, but this one is  mapped to a different content repository.

If you have a file based content server, you can copy the files from the production content repository to the test repository to get access in to the files in the test system.

regards Iring

[former_member188883]

Hi Michael,

1. Is there a way that we can rename all documents links to the new storage category?

You may try the function module CV140_LINKS_CHANGE. You may seek help from an ABAPer for its implementation.

2. Is there a way that we can migrate only selected data from the production storage category to the development storage category? Ideally looking for standard SAP tools. I have looked at the following thread and seems like it may assist in some migration task but not sure if it will actually work to just copy between the different storage categories on the same server.http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/PLM/Moving+a+content+repository

As you perform system refresh best method would be to copy all the data rather than selected data to the target system.

3. We want to run both the development and production storage categories on the same KPRO server. Is this possible? If yes is there anything we should take cognisance of?

Technically it is possible. But as a solution it is not recommended. Best practice is to have separate servers for production and non-Production environments.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Deepak Kori