SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit
Transport concept
Migrate Data Using Staging Tables
SAP S/4HANA Product Management Data Migration and Data Transformation, SAP
October, 2021
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Agenda
Transport – the basics
Transport concept
Allowed activities in DEV and TST/PRD
Allowed activities in DEV and TST/PRD – details
System modifiability
Export / Import functionality
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Transport Functionality (Migrate Data Using Staging Tables)
Basis Facts
▪ The transport functionality used in the migration cockpit is designed to transport between systems.
▪ The functionality is new with SAP S/4HANA 2021 release for the approach Migrate Data Using Staging Tables.
▪ You assign a development package while creating a project (SAP Fiori app). This assignment cannot be changed
later! This assignment controls the modifiability as well as the transportability of a project.
▪ You have the possibility to add projects, migration objects, and rules to a transport request in transaction LTMOM.
▪ Projects in non-modifiable systems (e.g., quality and production) cannot be created or configured, they can only
be executed.
Please note, that already uploaded instances in the staging tables are not transported!
Only the definition of a rule, fixed value, translation object or variable is added to a
transport request and transported. No values, for example mapping values, are included.
You need to maintain the mappings again (e.g., upload / download value mapping)
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Transport Functionality (Migrate Data Using Staging Tables)
Concept
Separation between design time and execution time activities
DEV QAS PRD
Transport Transport
project project Import change request
Design time activities* Import change request
e.g. create project, select migration and update DB connection and update DB connection
objects (NO design time activities) (NO design time activities)
NO execution time activities Execution time activities Execution time activities
Adjust in
Transport DEV if
Project
needed
Same release, patch level respectively SAP notes
level required!
TST Import change request
with project and objects from DEV
and update DB connection
(NO design time activities)
Execution time activities
e.g. execute migration, edit
mapping *Design time activities are allowed in systems which are open for changes, usually DEV systems
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Transport Functionality (Migrate Data Using Staging Tables)
Allowed activities in DEV and TST/PRD systems
DEV system: design time TST/PRD system: execution time
(system is open for changes) (system is locked against changes)
FIORI app FIORI app
▪ Create project (assign to development package) ▪ Upload data, prepare mapping, simulate, migrate
▪ Edit project (all project settings) ▪ Mapping values: edit, download/upload
▪ Add objects to project ▪ Finish project
▪ Change object settings (all object settings) ▪ Certain project settings (*)
▪ Content update/upgrade ▪ Certain object settings (*)
LTMOM LTMOM
▪ Change SAP objects, create own objects ▪ (nothing)
(source fields, rules, field mapping, …) ▪ Only Display Mode
▪ Add dedicated objects / rules to transport
*) for details see next slide
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Allowed activities in DEV and TST/PRD systems - Details
Activity DEV QAS / PRD Comment
Create project YES NO Project is transported
Add object to project YES NO Object is transported
Database Connection (local / YES YES Not transported; can be set only once after the import, then
remote) cannot be changed again
Content upgrade YES NO Update SAP objects with updates delivered by SAP
Settings for number of jobs YES YES Settings are not transported
Execute migration activities YES YES Can be executed in any system
Edit mapping values YES YES Mapping values are never transported! They have to be
transferred by download/upload if necessary. Same applies to
fixed value rules.
Set project to finished, set YES YES Settings are not transported
retention time
Delete projects YES YES Manually or automatically after expiration of retention period
Usage of transaction LTMOM YES NO Changes to structures and rules only in DEV, then transport
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Use Project in Different Client (Migrate Data Using Staging Tables)
Basic Facts
The transport function for the migration cockpit does not support transports between clients
in the same system.
If you want to use a project within a system in another clients, e.g. for testing purposes, proceed as follows:
1. Logon to the client, where you want to use the project
2. Go to the Migration Object Modeler (transaction LTMOM)
➢ If you want to use the same mapping values, please download them before hand! You can use the download
mapping functionality in the Fiori App Migrate Data – Migration Cockpit
3. Select your project in the Object Browser
4. Choose Goto –> Use Project in Different Client
The project will not be copied to the other client, it is moved to the other client and therefore not available anymore
in the old client. The functionality Use Project in Different Client is already available for SAP S/4HANA 2020.
Note that all mapping tasks are deleted. This means that you need to download the mapping
tasks before you proceed. You can then upload the mapping tasks in the new client.
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Important considerations
If you want to transfer the same data again to the new client the following
important information is relevant:
▪ If the staging tables are located in a remote system, you need to manually reset the
processing status of all migration object instances by clearing field /1LT/PROCESSED or
delete all data from the staging tables and populate them with data again.
▪ If the staging tables are located in the local ABAP schema of the SAP S/4HANA system, you
need to populate the staging tables with data again, as the staging tables are client-specific.
▪ Technically the staging tables of local ABAP schema have an additional MANDT field,
compared with remote schema.
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System Modifiability (Migrate Data Using Staging Tables)
As of SAP S/4HANA 2020 configuration is only possible in modifiable environments. This includes project creation, adding a
migration object to a project and all configurations in the migration object modeler (LTMOM).
Projects can only be created with the following settings:
1. Changes must be permitted for objects in the system at global level, cross client level, and client-specific level.
2. As of SAP S/4HANA 2021, the assigned development package must itself be assigned to a modifiable software component and
a modifiable namespace.
1. Check for client-specific and cross-client object changes
=> transaction SCC4
client level
System is modifiable if on client level,
one of these three settings is chosen
and
client-independent level
on client-independent level one of
these two settings is chosen
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2. Check for general system change options => transaction SE06 (button "System Change Option")
Global settings is set
to modifiable
Software component assigned to
the development package is set
to modifiable
Namespace assigned to the
development package is set to
modifiable
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Export / Import Project (Migrate Data Using Staging Tables)
With SAP S/4HANA 2020 release, you can transfer a project from one system to another in the
migration object modeler (transaction LTMOM) using the export / import Project functionality. You
first export a project from a system and save the project as a zip file. You then import the zip file
into the other system. You can also use the report /LTB/MC_PROJ_Q2P instead.This does not
apply to projects created with the older version of the Migration Cockpit (transaction LTMC).
With SAP S/4HANA 2021 this functionality is replaced by the new transport functionality. Projects
created in SAP S/4HANA 2020 can still use the export / import functionality in SAP S/4HANA
2021 FPS0.
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Overview on Possibilities how to Transport Projects
Release Import/Export Transport Check on System
Functionality Mechanism (DEV- Modifiability
QAS-PRD)
2021 In LTMOM In LTMOM
2020 In LTMOM
1909 In LTMC
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