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This transaction significantly simplifies the process of copying all customizing entries from one company to another, for instance during roll-out of new companies. It can also be used to clear all customizing entries for a selected company, for instance when the company is no longer used or should be cleared before entries from another company are copied for it.

Prerequisites

Before using, execute the setup program (https:/PACG/ECM_SETUP - FSM Connector's Setup/proaxia-prod-doc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PFCC/pages/37138406). Additionally, ensure that authorization object /PACG/E020 is assigned to the responsible user, with actions create/delete.

Copy company’s configuration

Selection of company and other basic properties

Action selection

To copy customizing entries from one company to another, select action ‘Copy company’s configuration':

Company selection

Then enter one source company and one or multiple target companies:

You can use the button ‘Create company’ to quickly create a company definition for a non-existing company ID.

Request/Task selection

Proceed by entering a customizing request number and path for logs file. You can create a new customizing request by clicking the search help button.

Path for logs file

Enter path for logs file, storing information about the tables affected by the program. Click the search help icon to select the target location, the recommended file name is prefilled automatically, Then click ‘Open’ to confirm.

Included/excluded tables

As the last steps, verify the list of excluded and included customizing tables.

By default, the following tables will be omitted (excluded) by the copying program, because of their strong dependency on region/organization area assignment:

You can remove entries from the exclusion list by using the button below:

You can include any Z-table containing COMPID field, by entering its name in the ‘Included’ table. It will be then relevant for copy. If the modified list of excluded/included tables should be updated permanently (visible in this form after transaction refresh), use the ‘Save’ button.

Proceeding to the overview of tables relevant for copy

When all the properties are entered, click the ‘Execute’ button at the top.

Overview of tables relevant for copy

On the next screen, an overview of all tables relevant for copy will be displayed (apart from the ones manually included on the previous screen, tables of class 'C' included in the FSM Cloud Connector package, which use company ID as key/part of the key):

Table name	The name of a customizing table (not view, cluster or transaction) retrieved as relevant for copy. You can click on any table name to display the existing table entries: Image RemovedImage Added
Number of entries	The number of entries relevant for the SOURCE company.
Org Data	Indicates whether key fields of a given table consist of organization-specific data, i.e. sales organization, distribution channel, division, sales office, purchasing organization, personnel area, country (LAND1), company code (BUKRS), plant (WERKS_D) or currency.
Cluster	Name of the view cluster using a given table
Parent	Name of table/view for extended table maintenance, foreign key relation (e.g. displayed when a table is a text table).

To proceed with copying, select all or selected table entries and click ‘Save':

If not all entries are selected, you can save your selection as a variant and use this variant either in the table overview or activate it on the initial screen:

Copy execution

Clicking the ‘Save’ button in the table overview, after selection of the relevant tables, will trigger display of the following pop-up:

Successful copy is confirmed by display of the post-copy screen, with a log at the bottom, as well as by generation of a log file:

All the tables should be filled with new entries for the target companies. The post-copy screen contains links to customizing transactions which by default are not copied at all or should be revised, because of their strong dependence on region, language and organization data, which usually differ for each company.

Limitations

• The program does not OVERWRITE existing entries. It creates new entries if they don’t yet exist for a given key. If existing target company customizing entries should be overwritten, perform action ‘Delete company’s configuration' for the target company, then proceed with configuration copy.

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  title for (S4)PACG 200 SP11 and sp10

  Table /PACG/ECM_UDF3 - UDF - Values (Selection List) is not copied because of unskippable technical limitations

• Support for copying of work time time frames (/PACG/ECM_WRKFR) was delivered with

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  title (S4)PACG 200 SP11

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Delete company’s configuration

To delete customizing entries from a given company, select action ‘Delete company’s configuration':

The deletion action consists of steps almost identical to the ones for copying. Instead of specifying source/target companies, only one company is entered, the one whose customizing entries should be deleted. After selection of tables relevant for deletion, a log file will be generated.

Status
title (S4)PACG 200 SP15

Delete program: Transactional Data

To delete not only customizing data, but also transactional data for a given company, go to ‘Deletion program: Transactional Data’. The button can be found after executing the ‘Delete company’s configuration' action on toolbar level.

After selection of tables relevant for deletion and executing the program, a log will be generated.

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