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New Transaction SE09: Workbench
Organizer
Description
The Workbench Organizer is available in the ABAP/4 Workbench for organizing
software development projects. It is designed to support both large and small,
as well as central and local development projects.
The Workbench Organizer provides assistance for organizing development
projects by allowing you to distribute project work for individual developers
or teams among different change requests. All development objects that are
modified, are entered in change requests. They are then reserved for the
exclusive use of these change requests and are locked against maintenance or
development work by other users until the request is released. Other users can
only display the objects.
When a change request is released, a version of the object is automatically
created enabling comparison and retrieval of previous versions.
If development activities are not carried out in the production system but
in one or more development or test systems, transporting the changed objects
is started with the release of a change request to the subsequent SAP
System.
Transaction SE09 can be accessed by selecting:
Tools -> ABAP/4 Workbench -> Overview -> Workbench
Organizer
The previous Correction and Transport System (transaction SE01) is replaced
to a large extent by the Workbench Organizer, which is integrated into the
development environment (ABAP/4 Development Workbench) and adapted to the
standards used. However, transaction SE01 is retained with its full
functionality in Release 3.0. Please refer to the online manual on the
Workbench Organizer for detailed documentation.
The most important new functions in comparison to the previous Correction
and Transport System are:
- The Workbench Organizer is completely integrated into the development
environment. Navigation is possible in both directions, so that you can branch
into the Workbench Organizer from every transaction of the development
environment, as well as into the corresponding editor by double-clicking on
individual objects within an object list.
- The Workbench Organizer is accessed via a hierarchical list that displays
all the change requests that can be used. The requests shown can be expanded
to access several levels of detail up to the object list.
- The previous variety of terms (transport requests, corrections, repairs
and so on) is greatly simplified. Corrections and repairs are now both
designated as tasks. Every change request includes one or more tasks, which
can be allocated to different users. When work has been completed the tasks
are released to the assigned change request.
- In overviews and selection lists, the internally used request and task
numbers are replaced by informative short descriptions or user names.
- Change requests can be transportable or local. Whether objects are entered
in a local or a transportable request depends on the system settings (see
below). After setting the system appropriately, the correct request type and
the target system (for transportable requests) are automatically allocated and
no longer need to be maintained by the user. The system can be set so that
modifications to SAP objects and individual developments are entered and
transported together in transportable change requests.
- Linking several users for a project has become simpler and significantly
more transparent. When a change request is created, different users can be
allocated to it. Later, if several change requests need to be linked, they can
simply be merged.
- An authorization concept has been introduced that allows you to restrict
access to the functions of the Workbench Organizer for certain users. See the
separate release notes for more information.
- Certain functions of the Transport System which are not linked directly to
work in the ABAP/4 Workbench are still provided by transaction SE01. In
particular, these are functions for processing object lists or transporting
originals or copies (transports with or without change authorization).
System administration changes
There are separate release notes on the configuration of the Workbench
Organizer or the Correction and Transport System:
Configurations
for Workbench Organizer and Transport System
Authorization object for Workbench Organizer
Transaction SE01