Retain background jobs and its variants before system refresh activity

Question

Hello All,
I am going to perform system refresh activity on quaity system on monday. Customer wants to retain the background jobs and its variants in the quality system. Please guide me and let me know the steps to retain the background jobs and its variants before starting the system refresh activity.
Regards
Subbu

Answer 1

Dear Subbu,
You have to export the TBT* Tables to retain the jobs. You can do this with R3trans:
1. Make Export file
2. Make Import file
3. Make Export in Q System before Systemcopy
4. Start Database and not SAP
5. Make Import in Q after Systemcopy
6. Start sap
1. Make Export file /tmp/export_cmd
export
file='/tmp/export_Q.dmp'
client=<your client>
delete from TBTCA               
delete from TBTCB               
delete from TBTCCNTXT           
delete from TBTCCTXTT           
delete from TBTCCTXTTP          
delete from TBTCI               
delete from TBTCJCNTXT          
delete from TBTCJSTEP           
delete from TBTCO               
delete from TBTCO_V01           
delete from TBTCP               
delete from TBTCPV              
delete from TBTCR               
delete from TBTCS               
delete from TBTC_SPOOLID        
delete from BTCEVTJOB
select * from TBTCA             
select * from TBTCB             
select * from TBTCCNTXT         
select * from TBTCCTXTT         
select * from TBTCCTXTTP        
select * from TBTCI             
select * from TBTCJCNTXT        
select * from TBTCJSTEP         
select * from TBTCO             
select * from TBTCO_V01         
select * from TBTCP             
select * from TBTCPV            
select * from TBTCR             
select * from TBTCS             
select * from TBTC_SPOOLID 
select * from BTCEVTJOB
2. Make Import file /tmp/import_cmd
import
file='/tmp/export_Q.dmp'
3. Make Export in Q System before Systemcopy
R3trans -w /tmp/Q_export.log  /tmp/export_cmd
4. Start Database and not SAP
sqlplus "/as sysdba"
SQL> startup
or
startsap
stopsap r3
5. Make Import in Q after Systemcopy
R3trans -w /tmp/Q_import.log  /tmp/import_cmd
If you want to undo this, start the export script in P system and the Import script in Q system.
Don't be afraid of the delete statement but without delete it doesn't work!
6. Start sap
startsap
Best regards
Willi Eimler