System Refresh from FI to HR Data

Hi All,
We are planning to conduct a system refresh in our Sandbox system. But here's the twist, our sandbox is currently an FI system (containing MM/SD/PS/FI module) and we want it to be refreshed with data from our HR production server. Is this possible? If we perform this scenario, what are the things we need to consider in performing the refresh?
Please note that we dont want to perform a fresh installation in sandbox for HR due to limited time, instead we are looking into the possibility of system refresh.
Here's the specs of our two servers.
Sandbox
Operating system     HP-UX
Component version    SAP ECC 6.0
Database system      ORACLE
Kernel release    700
Operating System   HP-UX B.11
OP release         B.11.23
HR PROD
Operating system     HP-UX
Component version    SAP ECC 6.0
Database system      ORACLE
Kernel release    700
Operating System   HP-UX B.11
OP release         B.11.11
Hope you can help me guys on my query.
Thanks!
Ice

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4 ETW000 [     dev trc,00000] db_con_init called                                                        27 0.000176
4 ETW000 [     dev trc,00000] set_use_ext_con_info(): rsdb/ssfs_connect not set => ssfs not used        41 0.000217
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4 ETW000                                                                                                  28 0.000245
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4 ETW000                                                                                                 947 0.001250
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4 ETW000                                                                                                  56 0.001905
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4 ETW000                                                                                                  25 0.001950
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4 ETW000                                                                                                  53 0.002055
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4 ETW000                                                                                                1828 0.014740
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4 ETW000                                                                                                  43 0.015095
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4 ETW000                                                                                                  61 0.015203
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4 ETW000                                                                                                  74 0.015678
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4 ETW000                                                                                                  40 0.045812
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4 ETW000                                                                                                  39 0.074110
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4 ETW000                                                                                                  39 0.074283
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4 ETW000                                                                                                  38 0.074321
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4 ETW000                                                                                                  30 0.074351
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4 ETW000                                                                                                  52 10.067848
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Also it would b fine if who all uses this method of forwarding to add transports to import queue do reply about any problems faced while forwarding requests.
Bcoz in our landscape , transport route is as below
Dev to QA and Sandbox then from QA transports will move to Production.
So after refresh forwarding Transports from PRD to Sandbox, how does this work. Please share your suggestions.
Regards,
Ravi

Post System Refresh Activity

Hi All,
I did system refresh ( from PRD to QAS , platform Windows 2008 R2 and MSsql) the system was up and running fine. The system was absolutely fine for one day and the day after the DB crashed , not sure what happened, is there a way i can find the logs through which i can come to know what exactly happened. Also post refresh when i was trying to run BDLS , the job was getting cancelled , the job log showed there is another conversion already running , when i checked the tables the conversion had already happened . Please tell me can running BDLS which cancelled many times could be the cause for the DB crash, if yes where can i find the logs for this , if not what else could have happened that the DB crashed . Thanks for your responses in advance.
Regards
Mrigank Aditya

Hi Nainesh,
Thanks for the message , yes system is up and running fine , the DB team did a restore of Production data on Quality again , and i did the post refresh activities again , the issue what had happened last time was we were doing simultaneous refresh of two systems at a time , BI prod to BI qas and ECC prd to ECC qas , we had found a list of tables in BDLS which gets updated when we run BDLS and we run those tables only , unfortunately the files got exchanged , the ECC tables should have run on ECC machine and BI tables should have run on BI machine which didn't happen and it happened the other way round BI tables where run on ECC machine , due to which BDLS failed and the job got cancelled many times, which impacted the whole system conversion and logical update , which crashed the DB( i exactly don't know the reason what happened internally , still searching for it ) . At present the machine is up and running fine.
Regards
Mrigank Aditya

Transports Issue after system Refresh

Hi All,
Recently we performed a system refresh from our Production to Development system. It is SAP ERP 6.0 ehp5 system. The refresh was successful however we are seeing issues related to STMS.
1. In our development system we are unable to use SCC1 to move transport from one client to another. The following is the dump.
Category               ABAP Programming Error
Runtime Errors         UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION
Except.                CX_SDB_ORA_PROGRAM_ERROR
ABAP Program           CL_SDB_ORA_UPDATE_STATS=======CP
Application Component BC-DB-ORA-CCM
The occurrence of the exception is closely related to the occurrence of
a previous exception "CX_SQL_EXCEPTION", which was raised in the program
"CL_SQL_STATEMENT==============CP",
specifically in line 24 of the (include) program
"CL_SQL_STATEMENT==============CM008".
The cause of the exception was:
ORA-20003: Specified bug number (16470836) does not exist#ORA-06512: at
"SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 23922#ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line
23973#ORA-06512: at line 1
2. We are not able to see the sub request record for the transports is missing in E070 table for the TRs which were created before refresh.
Please provide your inputs and help us to resolve these issues.
Thanks!

Hi
Why do you mean by "system refresh from our Production to Development system"
DB copy or client copy ?
Based on the problem you have it must have been a DB copy.
As you might know this is not recommended by SAP, you should at least have exported the object versions as stated in the here under note.
I hope your TMS domain controller was the production system...
It is normal that you did loose data in the CTS tables as you overwrite all CTS tables with the data from production, thus orders created in DEV that were not released should have been erased.
I'm afraid your problem could be tougher than a simple Oracle error...
For the Oracle error could you try launching system statistic and see if you get the same error
brconnect -u / -c -f stats -t system_stats
Why did you perform that refresh, client copy could have been a safer alternative.
Regards
130906 - How can versions be transported?
You want to copy the versions of the repository objects from one R/3 system into another, for example because you are planning to copy your production system to your development system.
Such a procedure does not correspond to the strategy recommended by SAP, to always retain the development system.

MSSQL 2005 System refresh

Hello All ,
I am trying to do system refresh from PRD to QAS , Windows 2003 / MSSQL 2005 database, need to know step by step procedure, DB restroe , recovery and rename SID , how to do all these. main I need to know DB activities.
Thanks
Atul

Hi,
Refer [SAP Note 151603 - Copying an SQL Server database|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/151603] to get step by step information about your requirement.
Regards,
Bhavik G. Shroff

SAP BC 4.7 system refresh

Hi All,
I have to go for a SAP BC 4.7 system refresh from production to quality.
Can anybody please share any documents or steps to be followed doing it.
Thanks
Harshit

Hello
We will forward this thread to the [Netweaver Administrator |SAP NetWeaver Administrator; forum. Hopefully you will get a better response there.
Regards
XI/PI Moderator

Java Dispatcher Down but Server0 and SDM up after system refresh

Hello,
I have done system refresh from PRD to QAS of CRM system - dual stack.Once after the system refresh ABAP is up and running fine but Java is down (Only Dispatcher is down. Both SDM and Server0 are running fine).
I have followed Note 609603 - Problems with Multiple NICs and SAP J2EE Engine and have given the correct host name but the no luck..
std_dispatcher.out says the following error:
Cannot attach to the Message Server. Can't open port [3925] on host [<Source Host Name>/Source IP Address].
Could you please let me know if I need to do any changes in the Config tool?
Thanks,
Subbu

HI,
IN DB restore the hostname of java system stored in profiles would be your PRD.
Go to Configtool in Edit mode -- cluster --> change the hostnames in Instance profile -- and under other files like bootstrap etc whereever you find PRD hostname.
And otherwise for JAVA system you should use export/import option.
Regards,
Tajinder

No infopackages after system refresh.

Hello,
We have recently completed a system refresh from our BI production system to our BI training system for the first time.
Our customer then wanted us to link our refreshed BI training system to our pre-production ECC system. After some initial issues setting up the connections between the two systems we finally got a successful test connection in RSA1 from our BI training system to our ECC pre-prod system. We had our BI functional team test, they told us that they do not see any of the infopackages and that transfer rules for loading hierarchies from our ECC pre-prod system are missing. Does anyone know how this could happen and what we can do to resolve/get the infopackages into our training system ?
We are on BI 7.0 and ECC 5.0
Solaris OS
Oracle DB
Thank you,
Steve

Hi Steve,
I would assume you deleted the sourcesystems, as adivised by the system copy note (886102). When you delete the sourcesystems, all its dependant objects are deleted too (like the infopackages, for example).
You can get them via transport, as suggested in the scenario B3, from that same note.

TMS, profiles after System Refresh

Hi All,
I have done a system refresh from PD1(old prod) to PRD(new prod) on new server.
I faced following problem after the refresh.
1. The instance profile of PD1 had many parameter.., after copying that in PRD, sap wont start. So I have commented many of those parameter from the instance profile of PRD?
2. After the refresh, since PRD doesnt have the transport request of PD1, how do I put those request to PRD?
I have the backup of \trans folder of PD1.
Regards
Prash

Hi,
Rename the file from \trans\buffer\HD1 to PRD worked!!!
-> the only concern if transport buffer is clean up in between then some request was missing in import queue of PRD.
zcsa/installed_languages = DE
this should be ED
zcsa/system_language = E is OK.
install/codepage/appl_server = 1100 -> this is for codepage installed on your application server
I get message like PXA_NO_SHARED_MEMORY occured
and SYSTEM_NO_ROLL occured..
-> are you using 32 bit OS ?
check Note 103747 - Performance: Parameter recommendations as of Release 4.0
Note 88416 - Zero administration memory management as of 4.0A/ Windows
also consider Note 129813 - Windows: Problems due to address space fragmentation
regards,
kaushal

System Refresh from FI to HR Data

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