Once you have created a change cycle for a managed landscape, a CTS project is created automatically for each of the development systems and clients that act as source systems in the landscape. By default, the CTS status switches are closed. This means that the tools of the Change and Transport System cannot be used to create, release, or import transport requests. For troubleshooting purposes, however, system administrators are allowed to deactivate these switches. You should only open a switch in the following cases:
You want to perform a transport action directly in the transport management system, for example, schedule an import in the transport management system.
The SAP Solution Manager system is not available and you would like to perform a transport action.
Note
If the SAP Solution Manager system is not available, go to transaction SE01
and enter any transport request. Choose and open the switch.
For change cycles that have been enabled for central CTS, the import status switches no longer control imports. The imports are locked on central CTS level. In case of an emergency (for example, if the SAP Solution Manager system is not available), perform the steps as described under Performing Imports in System Clusters.
You have been assigned the SAP_CM_ADMINISTRATOR_COMP
role.
You have generated a change cycle.
A task list exists for the change cycle.
On the Task Lists
tab page, select a task list and choose Change CTS Status Switch
.
For your system, open the CTS status switch and perform the desired action.
Note
We recommend to either close or activate all switches.