SAP Education Server Instance for Purpose of Learning

Question

For some years now, my company is using SAP software which had proven to be a very good software.

I am interested in opening SAP testing-education instance which will be used for learning purpose for students that will visit our company periodically. These are the most important features that this solution should have:

• this instance should contain dummy company code which should be with same by configuration as our main (production) server,

• all transactional data should be empty, except a few examples which are enough for learning purpose but do not reveal real data about company,

• this instance should be somehow virtually separated from real DEV-QAS-PRD and to be used only for learning and education purposes.

So these are my questions:

• is it possible to make replica of PRD server, delete transactional data on replica but to maintain configuration from PRD?

• is there any other way to achieve this aim beside one I have mentioned above?

Any help is appreciated and many thanks in advance for prompt replies!

All the best, Mc

Answer 1

Build your training system by making a system copy of the production system. When you do a system copy, you can decide what you want to copy. Choose only the repository and the customizing, no users and no application data.

When you want a limited set of production-like data in your training system, you could get a TDMS system to transfer and anonymize a limited set of production data, but because of the involved cost I wouldn't recommend it unless you have some more use for it (like getting anonymized test data for DEV and QA systems).

To keep the production- and training system synchronized, configure your transport management system so that each transport which goes into the production-system also goes into the new training-system. This can be achieved by either placing them in parallel or by placing the training system behind the production system and have a regular auto-import.