CharM Activate Extended Transport Control Risk

[Former Member]

Fellow SAP experts,

I am currently configuring Service Desk and CharM in solution manager 7.1 and have a question. I tried searching for the information but didn't find anything related to the risk of activating the extended transport control (ETC) in the managed systems (ERP (Dev, QA & Prod)).

Due to many different projects running in ERP, my worry is whether there is a risk of activating ETC:

1. There are many unreleased transports in ERP DEV (Domain Controller)

2. Any other problems that might occur

Your input is much appreciated.

[Former Member]

Surely someone must know something about this, as opening a message with SAP will not give me an insight of the risks.

[Vivek_Hegde]

Hi Jimmy,,

Before weighing the Risk factors in ETC, the requirment for activating ETC must be clear. In general one of the benefits you get by ETC is avoiding SCC1; let's assume, there are more than one clients in QA or PRD. If you release a request in development system and if you are having three clients in QA system, then you will transport the request in one client and say if you need to have the same kind of changes in other two clients also then you need to manually use SCC1. this could be avoided by having extended tranport control.

If you have a strict regulations on what can be imported into QA and PRD clients,then you may skip ETC.( But I dont think this as a risk, since everyone want the customizing changes to be consistent accross all clients).

Hope others would contribute here to share their view points on ETC.

Regards,

Vivek

[Former Member]

Hi Vivek,

Thanks for the reply.

My situation is purely for the solman ChaRM configuration. activating ETC is mandatory to enable all features of ChaRM

This is the info from the ChaRM configuration guide:

"In the TMS setup process, you activate extended transport control

within TMS. Activating extended transport control within the domain controller

will allow for the SAP Solution Manager system to take the role as controller.

With the following settings, ChaRM controls the creation and movement of transports

throughout the system landscape

Then also

• Deactivate the quality assurance approval procedure
• Activate the single transports strategy

"

We use the following transport route:

For Support activities: DEV 100 ----> QA 100 & 300 ---> Prod 100

For project customizing: DEV 200 (SCC1 to DEV 230 for testing) ---> QA 300 ---> Prod 100

For project development (client independent): DEV 100 ---> QA 100 ---> Prod 100

[Former Member]

Hi Vivek,

Thanks for the reply.

My situation is purely for the solman ChaRM configuration. activating ETC is mandatory to enable all features of ChaRM

This is the info from the ChaRM configuration guide:

"In the TMS setup process, you activate extended transport control

within TMS. Activating extended transport control within the domain controller

will allow for the SAP Solution Manager system to take the role as controller.

With the following settings, ChaRM controls the creation and movement of transports

throughout the system landscape

Then also

• Deactivate the quality assurance approval procedure
• Activate the single transports strategy

"

We use the following transport route:

For Support activities: DEV 100 ----> QA 100 & 300 ---> Prod 100

For project customizing: DEV 200 (SCC1 to DEV 230 for testing) ---> QA 300 ---> Prod 100

For project development (client independent): DEV 100 ---> QA 100 ---> Prod 100

[Vivek_Hegde]

HI Jimmy,

Activating ETC as a part of ChaRM is one of the pre requisites as you correctly pointed out above.

Coming to Risk pasrt; I honestly do not find any risks associated with adding CTC=1 parameter. As you might aware, ChaRM is a time tested functionality which is used by thousands of SAP customers. Hence you need not have dilemma over the risks. If anything goes wrong,by means of ETC then SAP would help you in fixing it.

Also I am not aware of any alternatives to ETC while using ChaRM. Hope this clears your confusions.

Regards,

Vivek