Data privacy

On an ABAP system part of this concern sits in non-production systems that hold real personal data, such as contact names, personal email addresses and bank account details, which have to be made irreversibly anonymous before anyone works with them.

Overview

SAP SHIPS

SAP Test Data Migration Server scrambles confidential data so that it is anonymous in a non-production system, either in one system on its own or while data is transferred to another.

Not covered: At test data. Scrambling makes a non-production copy anonymous; it does not mark which fields in production are personal or answer a data subject's request about them.

SAP Information Lifecycle Management, which blocks and deletes personal data in production, is not covered here: no page describing it could be retrieved, so what_core_does is limited to scrambling.

SourceSAP Help — Data Scrambling (SAP TDMS)checked 2026-09-14