What Is SAP Transport Request? How To Import/Export TR

What is SAP Transport Request?
How
to Import/Export TR
ByScott LivingstonUpdatedJuly 2, 2022
What is a Transport Request?

 Transport Requests (TRs) – is a kind of ‘Container / Collection’ of
changes that are made in the development system. It also records
the information regarding the type of change, the purpose of
transport, request category and the target system. It is also known as
Change Requests.
 Each TR contains one or more change jobs, also known as
change Tasks (minimum unit of transportable change). Tasks are
stored inside a TR, just like multiple files are stored in some folder.
TR can be released only once all the tasks inside a TR are
completed, released or deleted.
 Change Task is actually a list of objects that are modified by a
particular user. Each task can be assigned to (and released by) only
one user. However multiple users can be assigned to each Transport
Request (as it can contain multiple tasks). Tasks are not
transportable by themselves, but only as a part of TR.
Change requests are named in a standard format
as: <SID>K<Number> [Not modifiable by system administrators]
 SID – System ID
 K – Is fixed keyword/alphabet
 Number – can be anything from a range starting with 900001
Example: DEVK900030
Tasks also use the same naming convention, with ‘numbers’ consecutive
to the number used in TR containing them.
For Example, Tasks in the above mentioned TR Example can be named
as: DEVK900031, DEVK900032 …
 The project manager or designated lead is responsible to create a TR
and assign the project members to the TR by creating task/s for each
project member.
 Hence, she/he is the owner with control of all the changes that are
recorded in that TR and therefore, she/he can only release that TR.
 However, assigned project members can release their respective
change tasks, once completed.
Workbench Request – contains repository objects and also ‘cross-client‘
customizing objects. These requests are responsible for making changes in
the ABAP workbench objects.
Customizing Request – contains objects that belong to ‘client-specific‘
customizing. As per client settings, these requests are automatically
recorded as per when users perform customizing settings and a target
system is automatically assigned as per the transport layer (if defined).
SE01 – Transport Organizer – Extended View
Create a Change Request
 Change Request can be created in two ways:
 Automatic – Whenever creating or modifying an object, or
when performing customizing settings, the system itself
displays the ‘Dialog box’ for creating a change request or
mention name of an already created request, if available.
 Manually – Create the change request from the Transport
Organizer, and then enter required attributes and insert
objects.
Release the Transport Request (Export Process)
 Position the cursor on the TR name or a Task name & choose the
Release icon (Truck), a record of the TR is automatically added to
the appropriate import queues of the systems defined in the TMS.
 Releasing and importing a request generates export & import logs.
The Import Process

Importing TRs into the target system
 After the request owner releases the Transport Requests from
Source system, changes should appear in quality and production
system; however, this is not an automatic process.
 As soon as the export process completes (releasing of TRs), relevant
files (Cofiles and Data files) are created in the common transport
directory at OS level and the entry is made in the Import Buffer (OS
View) / Import Queue (SAP App. View) of the QAS and PRD.
 Now to perform the import, we need to access the import queue and
for that, we need to execute transaction code STMS -> Import
Button OR select Overview -> Imports
 It will show the list of systems in the current domain, description, and
a number of requests available in Import Queue and the status.
Import Queue -> is the list of TRs available in the common directory and
are ready to be imported into the target system, this is the SAP Application
View, at the OS level it is also known as Import Buffer.
The Import Status

Import Queue shows some standard ‘status icons‘ in the last column, here
are the icons with their meanings, as defined by SAP:
In case, a request is not added automatically in the import queue/buffer,
even though the OS level files are present, then we can add such requests
by the following method, however, we should know the name of intended
TR:
Import History
We can also check the previous imports that happened in the system as
follows:
Transport logs and return codes

 After the transport has been performed, the system administrator
must check whether it was performed properly or not, for that SAP
has provided us with the following type of logs (SE01 -> GOTO ->
Transport Logs):
 Action Log – which displays actions that have taken place:
exports, test import, import and so forth.
 Transport Logs – which keep a record of the transport log
files.
 One of the important information provided by logs are the return
codes:
 0: The export was successful.
 4: Warning was issued but all objects were transported
successfully.
 8: A warning was issued and at least one object could not be
transported successfully.
 12 or higher: A critical error had occurred, generally not
caused by the objects in the request.
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