Doing system refreshes of your quality / test systems is important for their quality and usability. But it could turn into a big effort, and additionally under time pressure. After all, the systems should be available again quickly. With "Shortcut for SAP systems" and the information from the "PCA" tool, most of the pre- and post-processing can be automated. Read here, how you can speed up processing the data during pre- and post-processing significantly!

Are the IDocs in your system piling up into an ever-increasing chaos? Is your database constantly growing and is it taking longer and longer to process incoming IDocs or to list them in BD87 and similar transactions?
Read here how to clear up this mess.

Segregation of duties is important for preventing the company from risks by misuse of authorizations. For user administrators and role assigners in SAP systems the user group - as part of the user master data - in combination with excluding the own user group in the authorizations is a way to implement this.
Read in this article, how simple it can be to ensure that the right user group is assigned to user admins and role assigners.

In practice, it is often necessary to extract data from the SAP system, whether for further processing outside the SAP system, for transfer to other SAP systems, or for other purposes. Part 1 of this blog was about extracting table data into a file, part 2 explained the different formats. This part is about how to extract output from reports.

In practice, it is often necessary to extract data from the SAP system, whether for further processing outside the SAP system, for transfer to other SAP systems, or for other purposes. Part 1 of this blog was about extracting table data into a file with the "View table data" function. There is also another function - "Download / Upload table data" -, offering other possibilities.

Having recent data in your SAP Quality and test systems / -clients is quite useful for speeding up problem fixing and development. Idocs are a common message type for business data. Read here, how easy it is to provide recent Idocs of the production system to your quality or test system.

In practice, it is often necessary to extract data from the SAP system, whether for further processing outside the SAP system, for transfer to other SAP systems, or for other purposes. SAP offers several possibilities via the SAPGUI. Probably everyone has already exported a list to one's computer or downloaded a spool request.
This works quite well - manually. How you can automate the data extraction with "Shortcut for SAP systems", you can read here. Part 1 is about extracting table data.

After a system refresh, do you need users from both the QA system and the production system - all together - in your QA system? Finally, after a system refresh, the QA system should have as much similarity as possible with the production system - not only in terms of material master data, FI documents, etc.
In the SAP standard this is not possible. Read here how to achieve this.

Although the system is not changeable according to SCC4 an SE03, developer keys in a productive system can lead to audit findings. See how easily this can be avoided.

It is a recurring task for the SAP Basis: the data of the quality and test systems become outdated, are thus less and less useful and must therefore be periodically updated with data from the productive system. For the SAP Basis, this is a high effort, and also under time pressure. After all, the systems should be available again quickly. With "Shortcut for SAP systems" and the information from the "PCA" tool, most of the pre- and post-processing can be automated.