HCM Best Practices version 1.500 (HCM Data Transfer Toolbox)

Hi,
Does anyone have the HCM Data Transfer Toolbox (BPHRDTT, HR-DTT, HRDTT)? This seems to be discontinued and been replaced by LSMW which does not provide anything even close to this tool!!!!
I wish this would have been posted in the Downloads on SDN.
Thanks
Check out the following link to see what I mean:
http://help.sap.com/bp_hcmv1500/HRBP_DTT_V1_500/index.htm
Edited by: Andreas Mau on Jan 30, 2009 8:42 AM

Hi Uwe,
Thanks for giving it a try, but my question is very specific for the reason that SAP has discontinued a perfectly good tool and replaced it with some do-over.
LSMW - is not always suitable and for large loads the performance is out of wack. You always have to start from scratch creating the stuff.
PU12 - The interface toolbox is nice but it could offer something more like XML or MHTML formating so you can actually reuse the data without pain. Also for payroll extraction on retro-results for only deltas this is not useful either.
HR-DTT - Was a tool that had all you really needed and was working just fine. It had everything not just infotypes but also T558B/C/E load although I prefer T558D than T558C. Here SAP is totally lacking support. The 2 BAPIs for BUS1023 do not support all one is only for outsourcing, the other for only B/D tables. In the code the E table update is commented out since they forgot to actually add the corresponding structure for the load as importing parameter...
SXDA - A rather unknown Data Transfer Workbench which also uses projects to organize the data transfer hooks up onto LSMW as well, but again that is where the tools end. There are no example projects for any area that are of any use. SCM/SRM has some minor examples but nothing that could be called exhaustive.
The Link: Thanks to SAP support this link has been discontinued so that no-one can ask questions any more on this issue. You may still find the docu on the service marketplace in 50076489.ZIP for HRBP_USA_V1500
Edited by: Andreas Mau on Apr 23, 2009 10:36 PM
Edited by: Andreas Mau on Apr 24, 2009 1:39 AM

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