Using Best Practices personalization tool

hello,
We wish to usr the Best Practices personalization tool for customer specific data sor baseline package.
I do not understand from the documantation if its possible to use it after installing the Baseline or its have to be done simutanioslly (meenung the personalized data have to be ready in the files before stsrting the baseline installaion)?!
Thank you
Michal

Hi,
Please Ref:
http://help.sap.com/bp_bl603/BL_IN/html/index.htm
Your personalized files to be done before implementaion as you will be using the file during the installation process.
The xml file and the txt files you creat from the personalization tool is used to upload the scenario to the system, or else it will upload the default.
Also ref note 1226570 ( here i am refering to IN ) you can check the same for other county version also.
Thanks & Regards,
Balaji.S

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Job (C) use best practices

Experts,
This question is in regard to best practices/common ways that various companies ensure the proper use of the Job(C) object in the HCM systems. For example, if there are certain jobs in the system that should only be assigned to a position if that position is in certain areas of the business (i.e. belongs to specific organizational areas), how is this type of restriction maintained? Is it simply through business processes? Is there a way/relationship that can be assigned? Are there typical customizations and/or processes that are followed?
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Please comment on your view of this practice. Thanks!

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Please comment on your view of this practice. Thanks!
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Sounds like the DBAs are using best practices to get the job done. Congratulations to them!
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I have 5 new tables seeded with data that need to be promoted from a development to a production environment.
Instead of the DBAs just using a tool to migrate the data they are insistent that I save and provide scripts for every single commit, in proper order, necessary to both build the table and insert the data from ground zero.
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The process you describe is what I would expect, and require, in any well-run environment.
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I am very unaccustomed to this kind of environment and it seems much riskier for me to try and rebuild the objects from scratch when I already have a perfect, tested, ready model.
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Nobody cares if if is riskier for you. The production environment is sacred. Any and all risk to it must be reduced to a minimum at all cost. In my opinion a DBA should NEVER move ANYTHING from a development environment directly to a production environment. NEVER.
Development environments are sandboxes. They are often not backed up. You or anyone else could easily modify tables or data with no controls in place. Anything done in a DEV environment is assumed to be incomplete, unsecure, disposable and unvetted.
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And the business generally has no access to, or control of, a development environment. That means using a TEST or QA environment for the business users to test and validate.
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They also require extensive documentation where every step is recorded in a document and use that for the deployment.
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Absolutely! That's how professional deployments are performed. Deployment documents are prepared and submitted for sign off by each of the affected groups. Those groups can include security, dba, business user, IT and even legal. The deployment documents always include recovery steps so that is something goes wrong or the deployment can't procede there is a documented procedure of how to restore the system to a valid working state.
The deployments themselves that I participate in have representatives from the each of those groups in the room or on a conference call as each step of the deployment is performed. Your 5 tables may be used by stored procedures, views or other code that has to be deployed as part of the same process. Each step of the deployment has to be performed in the correct order. If something goes wrong the responsible party is responsible for assisting in the retry or recovery of their component.
It is absolutely vital to have a known, secure, repeatable process for deployments. There are no shortcuts. I agree, for a simple 5 new table and small amount of data scenario it may seem like overkill.
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Well, it isn't like that. The most cynical viewpoint is that "best practices" is simply an advertising slogan used by IT consultants to make them appear competent to their prospective clients. But basically it's a value judgement. For example using Hibernate may be a good thing to do in many projects, but there are projects where it would not be a good thing to do. So you can't just say that using Hibernate is a "best practice".
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