Is LSMW allowed in CRM?

[Former Member]

Hi Everyone,

We need to migrate mass data (service orders) from AS400 to our SAP CRM system. I was wondering what kind of tool I can use. Is LSMW an option? If yes, I believe Batch Data Input would not work, am I correct. And if LSMW is not an option, can you suggest any tool/programs I can use?

Thanks a lot in advance.

[Former Member]

Hi LeGo,

LSMW would not be an option to migrate data from AS400 to SAP-CRM.

Actually the Migration procee goes like this :

1. Find the tables and fields in SAP-CRM which will be

populated as result of Data Migration.

2. Find Tables and fields from AS400(Legacy System).

3. Mapping should be defined between tables and fields.

4. The legacy system should output the data to be

migrated in a file(flat, .csv) format(all fields

mapping to a SAP table fields).

5. Then these files will be picked up by some programes

written in SAP.

SAP provides standard programes to upload data specific to applications.Like for service contracts some BAPIs are available. Validation of the data has to be done before using programs to upload data. Validation should check the format of data, data types, and authenticity of data. Once all data validations are cleared, data will be updated to SAP system.

Hope this will help you.

Regards,

Kapil

[Former Member]

Hi,

As the LSMW is a third party tool, we can use this very well, provided Structures available in the Target system for Data mapping.

[abdul_hakim]

Hi,

I think we can use LSMW in SAP CRM.

Regards,

Abdul

[Former Member]

LeGo,

LSMW is allowed in the CRM 4.0. (But mostly Authorization for running LSMW will not be given for the ABAPer!!! in CRM System)

Make sure of the Target Data structures.

Apart from LSMW, U can go with Flat File Upload.

Thanks

Kam

[Former Member]

hi LeGo,

In CRM 4.0, LSMW is allowed but we require separate server

to work on it, that means we need separate logic to run

LSMW on that server.

Regards

Vinay.