Change Control Management Using Central CTS
You can use the central Change and Transport System (central CTS) with Change Control Management (Change Request Management and Quality Gate Management). Central CTS is the transport foundation; Change Request Management and Quality Gate Management (QGM) manage the change control process and provide the user interfaces.
For each new change cycle, you can decide whether you want to use CTS or central CTS.
Note
If you activate central CTS for your change cycle, several functions in Change Request Management and Quality Gate Management have enhanced features. These are described in the documentation of each function. For more information, see Using Central CTS with Change Request Management and QGM.
Prerequisites
Central CTS provides a technical infrastructure for the enhanced flexibility functions in Change Control Management. It is delivered as the CTS Plug-In add-on, which is part of the SAP Solution Manager 7.1 stack, as of Support Package 05. For central CTS, you need the SAP Solution Manager system, and managed systems that are connected to the central CTS server and that can be controlled by it.
For more information about how to set up central CTS for Change Control Management, see Configuring Central Change and Transport System - Overview.
Features
After activating central CTS for your change cycle, you can use the following functions:
Flexible assignment of transport requests, even after their release
Synchronous control and monitoring of parallel transport routes
Prevention of conflicts between central transport control and local transport administration (local Transport Management System — STMS)
Combine individual systems (different applications) to reflect semantic dependencies
Synchronize transports requests if the resolution of an issue involves different applications
Bundle transports if more than one transport request is to be imported to complete the issue (for example, initial change and corrections)
Ensure that only the most recent version of an object is imported and that no objects are overwritten (downgrade protection)
Enhanced unification of ABAP and non-ABAP transports
More Information
Central Change and Transport System
SAP Note 1665940
(Installing/Updating SAP CTS Plug-In 2.0)
Setting Up Quality Gates and Assigning Phases
How to Set Up Central CTS for Change Request Management and QGM
on SAP Community Network (SCN) under http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-49155