The Transport Process 

Purpose

Not only do you need to define the transport routes, you also need to define the process used for transports. This is more an organizational measure than a technical measure that consists of determining who performs which tasks. In this topic, we briefly describe the technical transport process in SAP Systems and the next section, Responsibilities and Their Corresponding Authorizations, we explain more about the roles and responsibilities that apply.

In general, the following steps list the individual activities involved in the transport process in SAP Systems. (Note that we do not define the corresponding roles here. You need to define your roles yourself.)

Process Flow

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       1.      Release the change request to transport in transaction SE09 or SE10.

Based on the change request, the Workbench Organizer generates files that reside in a common transport directory at the operating system level. It also generates a control file, data file, and log file for each released and exported change request.

       2.      Review the log files to make sure that the export was successful. If there were errors, you need to correct them before continuing.

       3.      Import the SAP System objects into the database of the target system. use either tp or TMS, depending on your release.

You can use automatic import for imports into the quality assurance system, however, not for imports into the productive system.

       4.      Review the log files created by the Workbench Organizer.

       5.      Test your imports thoroughly. If errors occur, repair the objects in the source system and re-export  them into the quality assurance system.

If additional systems exist in the complete system landscape, then you need to import the objects into the other systems as well. This is normally not done automatically and you need to use the tp command at the operating system level or TMS (depending on your release). You should review all of the generated log reports to make sure no errors occurred.

You can access the log files using the Workbench Organizer (in the request hierarchy).