Transport Management with Transports of Copies

custemizing request comes under c type

workbench request comes under k type

transport of copies comes under t type..

IntroductionThere are several types of transport requests in the SAP system, two of which you are most familiar with.

Customizing Requestsare generally for system customizing activities that youd do in SPRO.Workbench Requestsare generally for things you would create in the ABAP workbench. This is primarily code or custom objects.Most to all of your normal development and customizing work is done in these two transport types. When you use these transport types, the system assumes you are going to move the contents of your transport to the QA system, and then to the Production system. While in a perfect world this is true, not all transports will be going to production due to testing, bug fixes, and scope changes.For this reason, we want to use a different transport type calledTransport of copies. A transport of copies will move the latest version of an object included to the system of your choice, but will not assume that you want to move it to production. Therefore, it transports a copy of the object but assumes that its final destination is only the system that you are moving it to. A normal transport on the other hand would assume its going to the system that youre moving it to (QA) and all other systems downstream from it. (Production)Also for this reason, we can move all the transports of copies we want and we wont see them affect the downstream system. (Production) They will only affect the system that we move them into. You will still be opening a single Customizing or Workbench request to move your changes to production, but you will only be releasing these requests when you know you are ready to move. For unit testing in QA you will be moving Transport of Copies until you are satisfied with what you have. At this time, you will release your original change request and move it into QA for final User Acceptance testing. By doing this, you will be using a single transport for your change that will ultimately go to production.Transport of Copies ProcedureThere are several ways to create a TOC but well cover howto do it inSE01.

Above:Request -> Create

Above:Select Transport of Copies

Above:For the description its helpful to prefix the standard naming convention with TOC so that youll know its a TOC by looking at the title. Youll also need to specify in the Target box which system its going to which will be the QA system in you landscape.Go ahead and save your transport.

Above:At this point youll have an empty TOC. It should look like above.

Above:Now youll need to add content to the transport. Go toRequest/Task -> Object List -> Include Objects.

Above:You will now see an Object Inclusion box like above.

If you know the task number, you can enter it here and press ok. If you dont then press the selection button to view transports assigned toyour username.IMPORTANT!-You will need to use the task number of the change you want to move. Ifyou select the entire transport itll only move a list of the tasks in thetransport and not the task itself.

Above:Use the screen above to lookup the transport that youd like to make a copy of.

TIP: Be sure to selectAll request types if you are unable to find your transport.

Above:From the pop up, Im able to see my transport and all tasks within it. I want to move a copy of a role that Im working on and I can see that the task below (SMGK90035) contains my role.Select thetaskthat you would like to copy and click ok.

Quick TIP! - You can keep trackof your TOCs within the Documentation tab within the transport that you madethe copy from.

Above:After clicking ok, I can now see that the objects of my original task have now been copied to my Transport of Copies. I can now release this TOC and move it to QA and I will see my edited role.

Merging multiple transport requests into oneBy Piyush Mathur, Tata Consultancy ServicesThis document provides the step-by-step procedure to merge multiple transport requests into single transport request.Lets start with small introduction with transport request.Transport requests are available to transport the developed objects/Configurations from one system to another system. In general, we develop the objects first in Development system and later move it to Quality and Production system.There are two types of transport requests:1. Workbench Transport Request2. Customizing Transport RequestWorkbench Request:Workbench request records client independent objects like reports, Functions, tables. Client independent objects are available across the system irrespective of client.Customizing Request:Customizing request records client dependent objects like table entries, SPRO configurations. Client dependent objects are only available to particular client.SE01, SE09 and SE10 are the transaction codes for SAP Transport Management system.Below are the steps to merge the transport request.***You can only merge multiple Workbench transport requests in Workbench request and same applicable to Customizing request.Execute transaction code SE10, select the radio button Workbench Requests and click on display.Following list is displayed with the Workbench requests (modifiable):For example you need to merge above two transport requests into one request.First click on New and create a workbench request.Now select the Transport request in which you want to merge another request. Click on merge button and give the transport request no. Cick on Green tick.Now expand the request, you will get the entry of merged transport request.With same steps you can add more transport requests in your request.Above steps holds good if you need to add/merge one or two transport requests. Sometimes there might be a requirement to merge more requests in one. In such cases, proceed as mentioned below:First create a new transport request and click on merge as specified in above steps. Now select Object lists from multiple requests and press on green tick.

Following screen is displayed:Now enter all the transports requests numbers which need to be merged and execute.Click on MergeA popup screen to confirm the action is displayed. Click on Execute online.Now expand the transport request. You will find all the merged transport requests.Similarly we can also merge customizing requests.