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Context

The installation number is part of the system-dependent data with which the key is generated. If your installation number changes, the data created with the previous installation number can no longer be read.

It is possible for the installation number to change even in a system used productively. This is accompanied by the importing of a new license (however, not every importing of a new license means the changing of the installation number).

To be able to continue working with existing entries in the secure storage in a case like this, you receive a release key from SAP together with the new license (if this will change the installation number). You can use this to migrate the entries in the secure storage. The migration key is not a skeleton key. It only releases the conversion of data from another installation number to your current installation number.

We assign the release key only if the installation number of a production system changes. You cannot request the release key for other situations (test systems, transporting database entries between systems).

Procedure


  1. Migrate the entries in transaction SECSTORE by choosing System data changed .

  2. Enter the system name, the previous installation number, and the release key, and choose Execute .

Results

The result list shows the successfully migrated entries and the entries that are not to be migrated, which were already encrypted with the new system data.

If entries remain in the error status System-dependent data changed for the secure storage , these were created with different system data.