Definition of TDMS
Due to the limitations of available tools, most companies simply create a complete copy of the productive 
system,  including the entire data repository and all administrative settings whether or not this information is 
required for testing purposes. This method duplicates the productive environment, so its both time-consuming 
and expensive in terms of infrastructure resources. Your nonproduction environments like development, testing, 
and training require specific data. SAP Test Data Migration Server addresses this need by allowing you to select 
just the amount of data you need. 
  
SAP Test Data Migration Server uses rules to create an extract of your data that is approximately 30% the size of 
the complete data set, but still contains exactly the data that is necessary to keep the business objects and 
processes consistent. You can reduce data sets in several ways. You can create a system shell that contains 
only cross-client data and client-specific user and address data, but nothing else. You can set up a system that 
contains only master data and customizing information. Or you can create a nonproduction system that contains 
master data, customizing information,  
and application data starting with a defined from date. In this last scenario, some essential data may fall outside 
of the defined time period, but the nonproduction system still requires it. To handle this situation, SAP Test Data 
Migration Server, configured and implemented on systems running the SAP ERP application, includes rules that 
logically link data, ensuring that all relevant information is transferred and that the consistency of the involved 
business processes and data is maintained even beyond the defined time period. You can also reduce data sets 
based on organizational structure,  
such as company code or plant. And with the workbench, you can create completely new ways to reduce data 
sets or custom scrambling routines for sensitive data. 
  
  
With SAP TDMS you can: 
 Reduce data volume 
 Simulate production environment 
 Automate system refreshes 
 Selectively refresh individual clients 
 Extract data based on business objects or organizational units/timeslice 
 Scramble sensitive data 
  
Contents of Document 
  
The contents of the document explains in full how to tranfer data from source to target system using TDMS with 
time reduction data. 
  
  
Time Slice Using TDMS 4.0 
  
Logon to the central system and execute transaction TDMS 
  
 
  
You need to create a New Project which will be used for the time slice 
  
 
  
Assign a name to the Project along with a Description 
 
  
Click on the newly created project 
 
  
Assign a portfolio to the project this is used to assign the requirements like TIME BASED REDUCTION 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
Activities that are executed within the process are expected to have a large impact on the work in the receiver 
client. Therefore we recommend that you define a system downtime by locking users who are not directly 
participating in the current conversion (that is, who are not registered for the current conversion). 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
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Best Regards 
Marius