Conigma™ QCOPY

automatic adaption of Import Queues for SAP® systems after a system refresh/restore

Functionality:

Conigma™ QCOPY, part of the Conigma™ Suite, ensures that when an SAP system is copied and rebuild, all required adaptation and software components to achieve a consistent new configuration are installed automatically.

Conigma QCOPY allows the user via a simple, intuitive graphical user interface to rebuild an SAP system into a consistent status after a system copy, and it also facilitates copying between different SAP clients. While it is not possible with the SAP interface to control technical modes how a software component needs to be installed, such modes are recognised by Conigma QCOPY and automatically implemented correctly.

Additionally, independent from automating the process of system copy or a restore from a backup, Conigma QCOPY allows many other operations on SAP queues, which are also controlled via the graphical user interface.

Benefits:

With Conigma QCOPY a member of the IT staff without expert knowledge of SAP can perform a SAP system copy or a system restore, resulting in significant cost reductions due to the fact that QCOPY can re-establish the consistency of the rebuild SAP system in a matter of minutes – while manually building the import queue may consume several working days of an experienced SAP consultant and is highly error-prone.

Typical application scenarios:

1. System copy

In order to ensure that their SAP consultants are provided with up-to-date test data, the IT department in many companies have to copy the SAP production system back to the SAP quality assurance (QA) system several times each year. However, after the productive system has been copied to the QA system, all software components which were not installed in the productive system yet, but were already in the QA system, must be recreated, to ensure that no program modifications or adaptations were lost while copying the data.

Rebuilding the import queue and importing this modified queue to ensure consistency lasts often several days. During this period of time the QA system is typically not available for standard operations, leading to urgent changes being transported directly into the production system and causing additional rework on the QA system afterwards. Furthermore this complex process is highly prone to errors causing additional effort and cost.

2. Restore from database backup

The high dynamics and frequency of changes within a SAP landscape increases the risk to produce errors leading to a defect and non-operational QA system, which needs to rebuild by using a database backup. Also for such a scenario, Conigma QCOPY is an ideal fit to automatically rebuild the import queue, which needs to imported to achieve a consistent SAP landscape.

3. Further applications

There are many other cases, where Conigma QCOPY is able support an efficient, automatic and error-free process regarding the construction of import queues, i.e. if the user starts with a plain SAP installation, copying the development system to the QA system, generation of test clients.