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Stefanos Moschidis - SAP Certified Technical Consultant - How to use Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW)
The Legacy System Migration Workbench (abbreviated to LSMW from now on), is a convenient tool for transporting data extracted from existing information
systems to a new SAP installation. To use LSMW start the transaction LSMW. On the appearing screen type a Project name, a Subproject name and an Object
Name. Press the Create Entry command button.
A popup window appears where the descriptions of Project, Subproject and Object are typed. Finally press the Continue command button.
A screen appears with the table of the steps required for processing an LSMW Object (Ie a data transfer task). Each step can be executed by double mouse
click. As a general rule these steps are executed in the order they appear on this table. So, double click the step Maintain Object Attributes.
On the appearing screen of Object Attributes Maintenance select the radio button Standard Batch/Direct Input. Select the Object field press F4 key and from the
appearing list of available entries select 0020 Material Master with double mouse click. Press the Save command button and the Back command button.
So, the step Maintain Object Attributes has been executed as shown on the screen and the next step Maintain Source Structures is selected. Double click this
Select the next step, Maintain Structure Relations. A screen appears where the structures of the input file for direct input are displayed. Select a structure with the
mouse button and press the Create Relationship command button.
A popup window appears. Here specify the Path, the File Contents, the field Separator, the Field Structure, the File type and the Code Page. Press the Continue
Select the next step, Assign files. On the appearing screen the input file on the frontend is assigned to the Source Structure. Press the Save command button
Select the next step, Display read data. A popup screen appears where a range of lines to be displayed can be selected. So, give a range of lines and press the
The lines of data read are displayed. Each line can be clicked with the mouse so that the details of data read are displayed. Leave this screen with Back command
Select the next step, Display converted data. A popup screen appears where a range of lines to be displayed can be selected. So, give a range of lines and press
The lines of data converted are displayed. Each line can be clicked with the mouse so that the details of data read are displayed. Leave this screen with Back
The table of the steps of LSMW is a little different now. It actually contains the two steps selected from the Personal Menu. So, select the Display conversion
Select the last step, Start Direct Input Program. A popup window appears to select either the DI program or the transaction bmv0 (Administration of Direct
Input). It is better to start the bmv0, because these jobs can be restarted if an error occurs.
So, the initial screen of transaction bmv0 appears. Press the Execute command button. And follow the steps as discussed in the section How to use the Data
When the Direct input jobs are started and the transaction bmv0 (Direct Input Administration) is quit the LSMW screen appears where all steps have been
On selection of menu path Extras -> Export Project, a popup window appears. Here specify the project to be exported and press the Continue command button.
Finally a popup window appears informing of the successful export of the project to the local disk. Quit the transaction LSMW with repeated Back command