(GLUE-1806) Transport Management

Owned by SNP
Jul 04, 2018

Transaction:

/DVD/GLTR

All objects created with Datavard Glue can be transported between SAP systems using the Glue transport management and the SAP Transport Management System (STMS).

Glue transports rely on the SAP 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 a ABAP Extractor). All these SAP objects with the definition of Glue meta-objects help us to recreate the Glue object on the target system.


Source system

Standard Transport

You may select objects, which will be transported according to Package, User name, or Type (Glue Business Objects are currently not supported). After executing the selection, Glue Transport Management Workbench displays a list of active Glue objects (figure below). 
Use the Select checkbox to mark objects aimed for the transport. (Variants and extractors, which are in $TMP package, cannot be added to the transport.)

Transported extractors need to be disposed of every kind of rules. Otherwise, transport of these extractors will be denied.

Click on "Transport" button to assign the objects to the transport. Standard SAP Transport procedure then follows, and transport goes towards the systems and clients defined in the transport routes.
Please note that the connection configuration must be the same across all the systems (RFC Connection name & settings, Storage settings, and Storage IDs).

Deletion Transport

Deletion transport allows you to choose objects which were deleted on the source system and automatically delete them on the target system.

You can select objects by a user who deleted them and by type. After executing the selection, list of deleted Glue objects for transport is displayed, and you can select objects for deletion transport.

Standard transport routine then follows.

Target system

Import objects (Standard)

You must make 2 steps to import Glue objects on the target system.

  1. Import the transport via standard STMS transaction.
  2. In the main screen of Glue Transport Workbench, click on "Import request" button and select Request ID you want to import. If transport contains an object which already exists on the system, it will be replaced by the imported object.

You can see import logs in transaction SLG1, Object '/DVD/GL', Subobject '/DVD/TMS'.

Import objects (Deletion)

The process is the same as standard import objects functionality.

Please note that when you import deletion transport, all the objects in the transport will be deleted using standard Glue procedures. 

This means that if you delete e.g. Glue table, also all the objects related to this table will be deleted (all extractors, variants ...)

Storage mapping functionality

Glue transport management can also import tables on other storage on the target system than they used on the source system.

To do so, add a row in table /DVD/GL_TR_STR_M on the target system.

  • In field ORIGINAL, specify the name of storage on the source system
  • In field MAPPED, specify the name of storage on the target system


For example, if ORIGINAL = H_CNN_MSI and MAPPED = H_CNN_MSH then each object in transport which used the storage H_CNN_MSI on a source system will use the storage H_CNN_MSH on a target system.