In this activity you create a transport request for transporting reports to a target system.
The source and target system must have the same SAP release installed.
You create a transport request in this activity. The transport request is based on the settings current at the time of the request and, for this reason, no new objects should be added to the report while the transaction is running, nor should new settings be made.
In the SAP transport system, you can leave as much time as you wish between the events "Creating the transport request" (what needs to be transported?) and "Export" (database transport).
If you make additional settings after "Creating the transport request" but before the "Export", the changed objects will be partially included, but no new objects will be included in the transport request. This may lead to inconsistencies in the target system once the import has taken place. For this reason, you should not make additional settings between "Creating the transport request" and the "Export".
When the transport request is created, the system cannot test which of the objects for export already exist in the target system, so it may be that objects created in the target system are overwritten.
We recommend the following precautions to avoid inadvertently overwriting existing objects:
For technical reasons, reports whose names contain special characters cannot be transported. To get round this problem, you must create a new report whose name does not contain any special characters. You can use the old report as a template.