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Function documentationCritical Transport Object Checks

 

The change and transport process across your solution landscape may include objects that are especially important for your core business processes. Improper modification of those objects may result in serious business impact on the whole solution’s stability. Therefore, it is required to have a strict monitoring and administration mechanism to better control those objects’ change and transport.

You can activate a check to determine if transport requests contain critical transport objects, which require approval before they can be exported from the development system. This check can be activated both on system and client level.

Critical object checks are available for Quality Gate Management and Change Request Management.

Note Note

Critical object checks are only available for ABAP systems; critical object definitions are also applicable to non-development systems.

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Prerequisites

To create critical objects, you have the role SAP_CM_ADMINISTRATOR_COMP or SAP_CM_CHANGE_MANAGER_COMP.

Activities

  1. In the administration cockpit, under Critical Objects, specify critical Customizing or Workbench objects for the selected systems and clients. You can create them from scratch or copy existing critical objects and adapt the data. You can define generic critical objects by entering wildcards in the fields.

    Note Note

    When copying an existing critical object, assign another system or object name because duplicate objects are not allowed.

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  2. Activate the check for specific critical objects.

  3. Define whether the check is to be active at global level or at system level. The global switch controls whether the check is off for all managed systems. The system switch controls whether the check is off for specific systems. The check is only performed if both the global and the system switch are on.

    In the change log, you can display all critical object-related changes.

  4. While a transport request is being exported, the source and target system and the source and target client are determined. If the transport object checks are active for the relevant client and system, the export program checks whether the transport request contains critical transport objects, or subobjects of critical transport objects. The export does not take place if the transport request contains critical objects but has to be approved by the change manager.

More Information

Generic Critical Objects

Approving and Exporting Critical Objects

For more information about how to define critical objects, see the quick help in the administration cockpit under Critical Objects.