Data Migration with LSMW

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SAP Data Migration with LSMW
Purpose
This wiki page will guide you, how data migration can be done by using LSMW.

Introduction
Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) is a tool recommended by SAP that you can
use to transfer data once only or periodically from legacy systems into an R/3
System.

This is one of the very powerful tools available in SAP to upload large amount of
data to the system. This tools is comparable to ecatt or scatt. But the advantage
LSMW has over them is the amount of data processed in single session. Moreover LSMW
is easer to learn and execute.

Through LSMW one can create Master data, create transactional data, modify existing
master data etc. This tool is very useful when some mass changes are to be carried
out and no standard SAP transactions are available for that. There are few standard
objects available in LSMW e.g. material master, vendor master, customer master,
purchasing info record, purchase requisitions, purchase orders etc. Using these
standard objects one can do mass data upload and mass transactions. Apart from this
LSMW provides another functionality of recording the transaction and then carrying
that out many times with large data. eg for that can be mass deletion of purchase
requisitions, mass deletion of planned orders etc.

For creating simple projects user can go to tcode LSMW and get started. All the
steps are listed very nicely and system will not allow user to skip the steps
enlisted. User will need to create Project, Subproject and Object.

Input tools
Input to LSMW can be with

simple excel sheet

text tab delimited file(text file e.g. notepad).
Example
A LSMW project in step wise manner is presented below:

Simply enter the field names in the first line of the table, and the LSM
Workbench's import routine automatically generates the input file for your
conversion program.

The LSM Workbench lets you check the data for migration against the current
settings of your customizing. The check is performed after the data migration, but
before the update in your database.

LSMW data migration for sales order VA01 / XD01 customer

LSMW using session method for data migration as follows

E.g. for XD01 (create customer)

initially there will be 20 steps but after processing 1 step it will reduced to 14
for session method.

TCode

LSMW
Enter

Project Name
Sub project name
Object name
Execute the transaction
1.

Maintain object Attributes

Execute
Select Batch Input recording
Go to - recording overview
Create
Recording name
Enter transaction code
Start recording
Do recording as per your Requirement
Save & click on back button or press F3 button from your keybroad.
Enter recording name in LSMW screen
Save & click on back button or press F3 button from your keybroad

Now there will be 14 steps.

2.

Maintain Source Structures

Enter the name of internal table.

Display change
Create
Save & click on back button or press F3 button from your keybroad
3.

Maintain Source Fields

Display change
Select structure
Source_fields & Copy fields. (a dialogue window will pop out )
Select a From data file
Apply source fields
a. Enter No. of field's
b. Length of fields
c. Attach the file
Save & click on back button or press F3 button from your keybroad
additional info.

If the number of fields are more, it is preferable to use the same field name as
SAP Table field name. The benefit of this can be seen on Step 5.

4.

Maintain Structure Relations

Display change
Save & click on back button or press F3 button from your keybroad
5.

Maintain Field Mapping & Conversion Rule

Display change
Click on source field, select exact field from structure and Enter
Repeat these steps for all fields.
Save & click on back button or press F3 button from your keybroad
additional info.

If in Step 3, the field names are same as the SAP Table field names, then the field
mapping can be simplified by Extras --> Auto Field Mapping. In the pop-up window,
select No Confirmation.

6.

Maintain Fixed Values, Transaction, User Defined

Execute
Save & Press click on button
7.

Specify Files

Display change
Click on legacy data
Attach flat file
Give description
Select tabulators
Enter
Save & Press click on button
additional info.

An advantage of using LSMW over other methods of data upload is that if you have
the column names in the first row of the input file, then the columns need not be
in the same order as the file definition (Step 3). LSMW will move the value to the
appropriate field by comparing the field name and the column name.

8 .

Assign File

Execute
Display change
Save & click on click on button
9.

Import Data

Execute
Display change
Save & click on back button or press F3 button from your keybroad
10.

Display Imported Data

Enter ok, this will show records only.

click on back button or press F3 button from your keybroad
11.

Convert Data
Execute
Display change
Save & click on back button or press F3 button from your keybroad
12.

Display Converted Data

Execute
Display change
Save & click on back button or press F3 button from your keybroad
13.

Create Batch Input Session

Tick keep batch input folder

Press on F8 button on keyboard
Click on back button or press F3 button from your keybroad
14.

Run Batch Input Session

Use TCode SM35 will come

Object name will be shown here;
Select object & process
Useful OSS Notes