Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Client Copy of User Master Records
The client copy profile SAP_USER is used to copy only user master records from the source
client to the target client. SAP user master records include the user accounts along with
passwords and authorization-related information. The SAP security team usually invests a
lot of time in creating user master records and developing appropriate authorizations for
users in a given client over a period. When a client refresh is performed, this useful informa-
tion could be lost and, therefore, it is a best practice either to save the user master records
with a client copy of the user master records to another client before the client refresh or to
perform a client export of user master records so that the same can be either copied back to
any target client or imported back into any target client. This will save work for your secur-
ity team who otherwise would be re-creating all the user master records with appropriate au-
thorizations after the client refresh. The client export process is explained in subsequent sec-
tions of this chapter.
Client Copy of Transport Request
A client copy of data can be performed at a smaller dataset level between two clients of an
SAP system. This is usually performed in the development system to quickly move smaller
datasets using transport requests (data packages with unique numbers). Transaction code
SSC1 is used to perform a client copy of transport requests. The following screen shows the
client copy of transport request number DEVK900026 from client 300 to the logged-on cli-
ent (400).
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This can be executed in a test run and as a background job. Since the dataset in a trans-
port request is usually smaller, this is executed online by clicking the Start Immediately but-
