Creating Transports of Copies

If you want to test your software changes in one system without having them transported automatically to other systems in your transport track, you can create a transport of copies. Transports of copies are not transported across your system landscape, and so are not imported into your production system. This means that you can use them to test your developments.

Note Note

Transports of copies can be created for a non-ABAP system only if SAP Note 1293449 has been applied in your system.

End of the note.

Recommendation

Use transports of copies to transport changes to the quality assurance system. Doing so has the following advantages:

Repository objects are locked for as long as possible in the development system.
The number of transports in production is reduced. which means that the required import time is reduced and any potential downgrade risks are minimized.
Transports of copies are periodically imported into the quality assurance system but do not follow the transport routes into follow-on systems.
Only the original transports can reach production.

End of the recommendation.

Prerequisites

All tasks have been released in the original transport request.

Procedure

To create a transport of copies, proceed as follows:

In the Transport Requests screen area, choose Actions... Create Transport of Copy .
In the dialog box that appears, select one or more transport requests and choose the Create pushbutton.
The system displays a message to confirm that the transport request has been created.

If the transports of copies have been tested successfully, you can release the original transports, which can then be transported across your system landscape.

More Information

For more information about how to create transports of copies in SAP Solution Manager, see Creating Transports of Copies.

For information about testing your developments in a sandbox system using transports of copies, see Transporting to a Sandbox System.