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Summary
This document is intended to show the steps involved in Transporting BW Objects. The document gives step
by step procedure for transporting BW objects. In this document we have taken an InfoArea for demo
purpose.
Author: K.R.Guruvayurappa
Company: Ayan Tech Solutions
Created on: 10 November 2010
Author Bio
Guruvayurappa is a BI consultant with 3 years of industry experience in implementation and
maintenance of SAP BW/BI systems. Presently, Guru is working with Ayan Tech Solutions
and is involved in execution of SAP BW/BI projects.
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Table of Contents
Transport............................................................................................................................................................. 3
Use ............................................................................................................................................................... 3
Construction .................................................................................................................................................... 3
Collecting Objects in transports .......................................................................................................................... 3
Transport Sequence ........................................................................................................................................... 4
Transport Landscape & Strategy ........................................................................................................................ 5
Transporting Objects in SAP BI .......................................................................................................................... 5
Related Content .................................................................................................................................................. 9
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Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 10
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Transport
A SAP transport is a package used to transfer data from one SAP installation to another. This data can be a
simple printer driver or a whole SAP client.
Use
The SAP transports are used to implement some new features in a production system. As the production
system cannot be used for development and testing, the implementation process is divided into several
phases:
1. A development and a testing installation is created using backups from the production system
2. The new features are implemented into the development installation
3. This is imported into the testing or quality system using a transport
4. After the new features are fully tested, it is imported into the production system using another transport
Despite this fact the transport system is the most convenient and effective way of implementing new features
into a production system with a minimal downtime.
Construction
An SAP transport consists of several files. These files are usually located in 5 separate folders within the OS:
Data files - Contains the transport data, i.e. the actual data to be transported.
Cofiles - Contains information on change requests, i.e. different steps of a change request and their exit
codes.
Profile files - It contains profile parameter.
Transport log - Logs, trace files, and statistics.
Support packs - Contains update and enhancement related files.
The main drawback of the transport is that the changes once made cannot be undone, i.e. if an import goes
wrong, another transport that corrects the original change must follow or in some cases a full system restore
might be required.
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Transfer Rules
a. Application Components
b. Communication Structure
c. Data Source replica
d. Info Packages
e. Transfer Rules
f. Transformations
g. Info Source Transaction data
h. Transfer Structure
i. Data sources (Active version)
j. Routines & BW Formulas used in the Transfer routines
k. Extract Structures
l. If the transfer structures and related objects are being transferred without preceding Base Objects
transport (e.g. while fixing an error) it is safer to transport the related InfoObjects as well.
Update Rules
a. Update rules
b. Routines and formulas used in Update rules
c. DTPs
Process Chains
a. Process Chains
b. Process Chain Starter
c. Process Variants
d. Event – Administration Chains
Report Objects
a. Reports
b. Report Objects
c. Web Templates
Transport Sequence
The Transports sequence to the QC/Production assuming the corresponding objects as mentioned above
are captured in these transports is give below:
1. Base Objects
2. Info Providers
3. Transfer Rules
4. Update Rules
5. Process Chains
6. Report Objects
7. User exits in any order
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3. Choose the type of objects to be transported. E.g.: To transport an InfoArea Expand the “Info Area”
icon and double click the “Select Objects” and choose the required InfoArea and Click on “Transfer
Selections”.
4. The prompt for choosing or changing the package appears if we want to change the package.
Choose a new package.
5. Choose the request if it is relevant or create a new request. Here a new request is created. Click on
continue once the new request number is shown.
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6. Click on the Truck Icon to transport the collected object(s). The transport is now created.
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7. Now Go to TCode SE01, give the request number and press enter.
8. Choose the Transport request that needs to be released. Click on the TRUCK icon or press F9. First
release the child request and then the parent request. The request is released now.
The screen will display the Released items under “Released” category.
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Related Content
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_(SAP)
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/En/b5/1d733b73a8f706e10000000a11402f/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_dm40/helpdata/en/0b/5ee7377a98c17fe10000009b38f842/content.htm
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