Creating Transports of Copies 

Use

You want to test your software changes in the consolidation system without having to transport them automatically to other systems in your transport track.

Transports of copies are only available for maintenance cycles. In the case of urgent corrections, it is assumed that the correction has to be transported to the production system without further delay.

Prerequisites

·        A maintenance cycle or an urgent correction exists whose status is Active.

·        You have been assigned the SAP_CM_DEVELOPER_COMP role in the SAP Solution Manager system.

If you execute this task from within the Schedule Manager, you must have been assigned the SAP_CHANGEMAN_OPERATOR role in the satellite system.

Procedure

You can also execute this task from within a change request. In this case, a dialog box displaying open transport requests appears directly without navigation into the task list.

To create a transport of copies from within a maintenance cycle, proceed as follows:

 

       1.      Call transaction /TMWFLOW/MAINTINST.

       2.      On the Mainten. Cycles tab page, select Display Existing Maintenance Cycles.

The system displays a list of the maintenance cycles whose status is Active (default setting). To select or activate cycles with other statuses, see Changing the Status of Task Lists.

       3.      Click the maintenance cycle for which you need to create a transport of copies.

       4.      Under the task node of the development system, select Create Transport of Copies, and then start the action by clicking  with the quick info text Execute task.

       5.      In the dialog box that appears, select the original transport requests for which you want to create transports of copies.

The following open transport requests are displayed:

¡        From within a change request: all requests that are assigned to the change request

¡        From within a maintenance cycle task list: all requests that are assigned to the CTS project connected to the maintenance cycle

¡        From within an urgent correction task list: all requests that are assigned to the urgent correction

After the transports of copies have been created, the maintenance cycle task list is displayed again.

       6.      Check the status of your task. If you need more information about the task, check the application log in the Daily overview of the task list.

Result

For each selected transport request, the object list is used to create a new transport of copies. Transports of copies are released and added to the import queue of your consolidation system. You now can import these requests to perform your tests.

Since transports of copies are not included in the CTS delivery mechanism, they are not transported across your system, and are therefore not imported into your production system.

If the tests of your transports of copies are successful, you release the original transports, which can then be transported across your landscape.

The transports of copies are provided with the transport request attributes SAP_CTS_PROJECT (which contains the CTS project ID) and SAP_TMWFLOW (which contains the task list ID of your task list).