SAP Note 25729 - Question: Transport of master or application data?

Symptom:

Customer would like to know how to transport masterdata from one system to another? Is it possible to do this by clientcopy?

Cause and prerequisites

tools and support for configurating and organizing a multi-system szenario (Test-/ Quality-/ Education-/ Production system)

Solution

To Migrate data from one system to another there are only 2 techniques supported by SAP. Therefore you have to distinguish between

• Master data, related to the application environment and

• customizing data of the customer's enterprise.
  

Master data may only be migrated via batch-input techniques. Only by this method consistency may be guaranteed according to the checks performed during entering data into R/3 system. Transporting configuration data between two R/3 systems is supported via the customizing maintenance functions as follows.

• Release 2.1/2.2: please use the 'transport' function in the menu bar. Mark the enties in the objekct list of your customizing object. By saving that marked list the entries are recorded within a transport order.

• Release 3.0: You may specify the current client in the client table T000 to automatically support change recording in a tranport order.

Answer for Question: Is it possible to do this by clientcopy?
-> Only in context of a complete clientcopy, i.e together with all customizing data (configuration data). Copy of application data only without customizing data is not able to be supported because in this case no consistency checks would be done

Additional key words

configuration data