(Glue-2305) Transport Management

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May 16, 2023
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All objects created with SNP Glue™ can be transported between SAP systems using the SNP Glue™ Transport Management (SNP Glue™ TM) and the SAP Transport Management System (STMS).

Transaction: /DVD/GLTR

In this section:

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

You can also use SNP 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. More information about supported change operations can be found in the chapter Changed Scenarios of SNP 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

SNP Glue™ TM cleanup

Cleanup redundant metadata

When you create transport on the source system, SNP 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 SNP Glue™ Transport Management through the transaction /DVD/GLTR.

  2. Select SNP 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 (more info can be found in the chapter Changed Scenarios of SNP Glue™ Objects) by SNP Glue™ TMS, you can delete all metadata on the system. This will remove SNP Glue™ TMS metadata for all non-transported or non-deleted SNP Glue™ objects. 

To delete all metadata use the following steps:

  1. Go to SNP 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 SNP Glue™ objects for more information.

Logs

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