Coexistance of CHARM & QA?

Hi all,

I want to activate CHARM, but we have not the common 3-system-landscape

Dev > Q > Prod). We use the QA-procedure, and thus have a kind of 4-

system-landscape:

Dev > Q > QA > Prod

...where QA is only a virtual system with an own transport buffer, where

basis team authorizes the changes manually to production. As it is a

productively used system landscape, we can not simply disable QA and

replace it by CHARM.

I need to activate both in parallel before QA can be disabled later.

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The normal STMS transport routes are configured and work fine.

But when I try to enable CHARM for this transport domain, the log

complains that there is "No export system for P01-001"! It simply

doesn't recognize the virtual QA-system as a system, probably because in

SMSY no system number can be read (as it is virtual).

I already tried to give the QA-system the "Production" role (via system

role assignment), but as it has no system number this is refused.

Is it basically possible to combine these two "approval procedures" (QA

& CHARM)?

And how can CHARM be enabled with the virtual QA system in the transport

route?

Many thanks for your help!

Christoph Schuhwerk