(Glue-2105) Transport management

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Last updated: May 14, 2021 by Marian Vidra
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All objects created with Datavard Glue can be transported between SAP systems using the Glue Transport Management (Glue TM) and the SAP Transport Management System (STMS).

In this section:

Transaction: /DVD/GLTR

With the help of Glue Transport Management, you can select Glue objects which you want to transport. After that, the Glue TM relies on the standard STMS transports. The SAP transport contains the complete definition of transported Glue meta-objects together with the standard SAP classes and reports necessary for a Glue meta-object (for example an ABAP Extractor). All these SAP objects with the definition of Glue meta-objects help us to recreate the Glue object on the target system.

You can also use Glue Transport Management for the following scenarios:

  • Transport new objects to a target system.

  • Delete objects on the target system.

  • Transport changed existing objects on the target system. For more information about supported change operations, see the chapter Change Scenarios of Glue Objects.                                                                                                                              

Scenarios

  • Standard transport - transport of objects from source to create objects on the target

  • Deletion transport - transport of objects from source to delete objects on the target

  • Combination transport - a combination of standard transport and deletion transport

    • contains both objects for creation and objects for deletion

    • In this case, transport management firstly deletes objects that are marked for deletion and then creates objects on the target

Glue TM cleanup

Cleanup redundant metadata

When you create transport on the source system, Glue metadata in a form of table content is created. After the release of the transport request, this metadata is redundant and you may manually delete it.

To delete these metadata use the following steps:

  1. Go to Glue Transport Management through the transaction /DVD/GLTR.

  2. Select Glue STMS released (F7) in the Tool menu of the screen toolbar.

Cleanup all metadata

When you transport a request with inconsistent metadata to the target system, by trying any not supported actions (see the chapter Change Scenarios of Glue Objects) by Glue TMS, you can delete all metadata on the system. This will remove Glue TMS metadata for all non-transported or non-deleted Glue objects. 

To delete all metadata use the following steps:

  1. Go to Glue Transport Management through the transaction /DVD/GLTR.

  2. Select Cleanup all in the Tool menu of the screen toolbar.

If the storage on the source system has a different Storage ID as on the target system or you want to use different storage on the target system, you must set up the mapping of storages. This step is necessary before the import of transport. For more information, see the section Storage mapping functionality. 

If transport contains an object, which already exists on the target system, it will be either replaced by the imported object or the transport of this object will fail. When this situation occurs, see the section Changed scenarios of Glue objects for more information.

Logs

You can view the import logs through the transaction SLG1, Object '/DVD/GL' and Subobject '/DVD/TMS'.