Question:
Hi Gurus...
When you make direct changes to the test and the production systems, would performing transports cause exceptions and conflict from system to system in any way??
We have been getting many exceptions and our system are wide open - no security in place.
What is the best approach in getting no exception errors in transport?? What are the common reason that we get exceptions in the transports and imports??
Appreciate any suggestions.
Thank you
Answer:
yes they will in a big way..
I strongly suggest you think twice before modifiying any objects directly in a production system...
Answer:
Most of the things you touch directly in production will give problems when a transport coming from dev would impact the same object. Closing the production system is the very first basic step in protecting the integrity of your production system. The reason you receive exception is that sap consider dev is the basis of prod, if something coming from dev has not the same status in prod (has been touched in prod), sap blocks the transport saying something like "object has been repaired, cannot import from dev".
You can discuss it with people having more experience in the source system, for instance, as the concept is the same and the problems well known. I saw this happening more than once (don't cry, Jeff, you are not alone ), I think this is due to the fact that people are joining the bw field coming from a datawarehousing background while it does not happen with people coming from a sap background. (this is NOT a negative remark)
What you HAVE TO do before you are running in even more complex problems is first to close the production system, then reflect every change made in production to your dev system and from now on only develop in dev and transport !! Putting the dev system at the same level as the prod system will be hard work if you have a big implementation but will save you a lot of lost time in the future. The best thing you could do if you can afford it, is to make a client copy from prod to dev and start from there. Most of the time it is not possible because of ongoing developments, but I strongly suggest that you consider it anyway.
There are things that you may do directly in production, like creating new queries, let's browse this site to understand which you can and which you may as some people were discussing about the same some times ago.
'hope this helps,
Ch
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