Synchronization Object Specification Tool

The synchronization object specification tool (transaction scdt_mapping) is an additional Customizing Synchronization tool (Customizing Scout, Customizing Distribution) in the SAP Solution Manager.

Customizing Scout und Customizing Distribution use a list of customizing objects which need to be synchronized in the components. These customizing objects are referred to as synchronization objects here. A set of synchronization objects is delivered by SAP with the application components SAP CRM and SAP APO.

You can create a list of synchronization objects and their attributes in the application component systems, with the specification tool. These lists specify which customizing objects in the target component (for example, BBPCRM) correspond to which customizing objects in the source component (for example, SAP_APPL) for which releases (mapping).

To use the specification tool, you need:

• RFC destinations in all systems involved: You usually use the specification tool in your application component development system, for example, CRM. You need RFC destinations for all source systems, that is, for all ERP systems for which you create customizing objects.

  An ideal system landscape would be as follows:

You must have set-up an RFC destination to an ERP system; preferably to all possible ERP releases.

• Authorization Profile: You need the authorization profile s_cus_cmp for the user with which you logon to the above ERP systems. You must add some authorizations to this authorization profile; see note 383704. You also need the authorization s_tabu_all for the authorization object s_tabu_dis in your development system, for example, in an SAP CRM system in which you use the specification tool.

You can create a list of all customizing objects in a system landscape which must be synchronized, that is, have the same field entries, with the specification tool. The result is a list of synchronization objects, that is, customizing objects which must be synchronized. Synchronization objects in a component such as SAP R/3 and in an application component such as SAP CRM, often have different table or even field names. In these cases, you can assign corresponding tables or fields with different names to each other in the specification tool. If values are to be mapped onto each other, you can specify a function module which converts source system customizing data into target system customizing data.

You can also:

• Copy

• Edit

• Display

• Restrict release validity

• Sort and filter

• Check the consistency

• Delete.

You can also

• document objects

• specify whether an object is only to be compared with the Customizing Scout, or can also be distributed in a system landscape with the Customizing Distribution

• specify whether an object is only to be distributed from ERP system into another component or in the reverse direction as well (backwards distribution)

• assign IMG activities to the objects

  Note

  The assignment of an object to an IMG activity enables the Customizing Distribution users to select objects for distribution by selecting IMG activities. The assignment also permits the IMG to be linked to the Customizing Scout.