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Prerequisites

You are logged on to a Customizing Distribution target system.

Caution

You must create synchronization objects in a system which contains the Customizing Distribution target component. This will usually not be the SAP Solution Manager system.

You have created the required RFC destinations in the RFC destination maintenance transaction SM59, and have the authorization described in the Synchronization object specification tool prerequisites. You have specified the RFC destinations in the specification tool.

You have checked whether the customizing objects are appropriate for Customizing Synchronization, and the customizing object type. You know the notes under Create and Load Synchronization Objects. You have checked the type of the customizing objects, and ensured that:

  • View clusters (type C) are be resolved into individual views; these views are then entered in the specification tool.

  • Customizing objects of type T (individual transaction) or L (logical transport object) are resolved into their tables (space, V, S); and these tables must be entered in the specification tool.

Context

You want to compare or adjust customizing in tables/views in a source and target systems. You create synchronization objects if customizing objects in different system have the same contents, but different structures, for example different table and field names. The Customizing Scout and Customizing Distribution use the information in the synchronization objects to compare and adjust customizing.

Procedure


  1. Choose Start of the navigation path Tools Next navigation step Customizing Next navigation step Distribution Next navigation step Change Synchronization Objects End of the navigation path in the SAP menu, or call the transaction scdt_mapping.

    You go to the synchronization object specification tool initial screen.

  2. Choose a software component as target component, and a target release.

    A list of existing synchronization objects is displayed.

    Note

    * in the Release field means "all releases".

  3. Choose Create.

  4. You go to the Create Synchronization Objects dialog screen.

  5. Assign a name to your synchronization object and change the source component, or the releases for source and target components, if necessary.

    Note

    The names in TADIR must be unique, so follow a naming convention for your synchronization objects.

  6. Choose an option under Relevant for:

    • Relevant for Comparison and Distribution: The object is used by the Customizing Scout and Customizing Distribution.

    • Only Relevant for Comparison: The synchronization object is used by the Customizing Scout, but not in the Customizing Distribution.

    • Only Relevant for Transport-Based Distribution: The synchronization object can only be used for Customizing Distribution by transport change, transport release, and timed distribution, not for initial distribution.

    • Only Relevant for Initial Distribution

    • Only Relevant for Comparison and Initial Distribution: The synchronization object can only be used for the initial distribution and the comparison with the Customizing Scout.

  7. Redistribution Active: If you set this flag, you can swap the Customizing Distribution source and target systems, that is, the Customizing Distribution user can distribute customizing from an application component such as an ERP system, as well as from SAP CRM to other application components.

    Note

    This flag is automatically set for No Mapping Required.

  8. Specify the mappings type under Structure Differences:

    • No Mapping Required: The tables have the same table and field names.

    • Different Table Names

      Caution

      Tables may also differ in their structure, for example, one table can have more fields than the other, or fields with the same name can be of different types. If you still choose No Mapping Required or Different Table Names, the Customizing Scout and the Customizing Distribution will only process the fields with the same field name, which are in both components, and whose types are compatible.

    • Different Table/Field Names

  9. If the table or field names differ, enter the names of the corresponding tables or fields in the appropriate fields under Assignment.

    The system tells you in Key Field Target and Text Field Target, whether the synchronization object contains key fields or fields in a text table.

  10. If necessary, enter a fixed field value or a variable in the Fixed Field Value/Variable column.

    Note

    Fixed field values are required for a source component table, for example, if one or more tables in the target component contain additional fields which have no corresponding fields in the source component. The following variables are currently available: $LOGSYS; $SYLANGU; $MANDT; $UNAME; $SYDATUM; $SYUZEIT.

  11. Specify target object filter conditions or source object filter conditions with the Change pushbutton in the Display/Change Filter Condition column, if necessary.

  12. Assign a source and target IMG activity to your synchronization object.

  13. You can document the synchronization object with the Documentation pushbutton.

    The documentation is created in the SAPscript editor. It has the type General Text.

  14. Save your data.

    The system checks the data entered. See check synchronization objects.

  15. Specify a package and a transport request.

Results

You can now:

You can load the synchronization object for use in Customizing Distribution or Customizing Scout in the SAP Solution Manager system.