SRM Product Category's Logical System

i found in comm_hierarchy and i felt weird for our product categories data.
in comm_category, our category_id is R3MATCLASSXXX (XXX = Dev system), but logsys field is Prod system. how can this be done? i thought the category_id and logsys should be the same?
thanks.

Hi Glen,
The ID is autogenerated by system depending on the source system defined in middleware setting.
This should not happen unless somebody does system copy or change material master replication settings from dev to prod. If none of these cases are applicale to you, I will suggest you to raise an OSS.
Regards,
Prashant

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