Synchronizing Customizing Data Between Systems
Two important aspects:
Customizing data is all the data configured in Customizing.
It includes, for example, organizational units (company code, division, plant), units of measurement and many other parameters that have to be set in the system.
Customizing has to be identical in certain areas in both systems before data can be exchanged between them.
In an ALE integrated system you can specify a central maintenance system in which Customizing data objects can be maintained centrally. Customizing data is transported from the central system to the systems that need to be synchronized.
The synchronization of Customizing data can be divided into:
The ALE distribution group is a central modeling element. ALE distribution groups contain client-dependent Customizing objects of category CUST.
For your own Customizing tables you have to make entries in each of the administration tables of the Customizing objects (Transaction SOBJ). These entries are made automatically, if you create a maintenance interface with the table maintenance generator for your Customizing tables (Tools ® Development ® Dictionary ® Utilities ® Table maintenance generator, or transaction code SE11).
In ALE Customizing you have to define ALE distribution groups in the same system that is specified as the maintenance system (Transaction SALE, Modeling and Implementing Business Processes, Synchronization of Customizing Data).
Basis ® Application Link Enabling (ALE) ® Modelling and Implementing Business Processes ® Synchronization of Customizing Data.
In Releases before 4.6A distribution is modeled with the message type CONDAT. Customizing data (control data) for distribution must be specified as the filter objects of this message type.
You cannot use the old and new modeling processes in parallel.
For this reason you have to use a tool in the ALE IMG to generate distribution groups for existing Customizing objects.
You can specify a different maintenance system for each distribution group.
In ALE Administration you can process ALE transport requests for synchronizing Customizing data between systems as follows:
Generate ALE requests
Import ALE requests with Workflow connection
Consolidate and forward ALE requests