how to set up transport directory

[Former Member]

Hi,

Currently our SAP landscape consists of 3 boxes, DEV, QA and PROD. We are on ECC 6.0 on RedHat with Oracle 10.2.04 as DB.

Currently the /usr/sap/trans directory is common for DEV and QA. But PROD has its own local /usr/sap/trans. Due to this setting we have to manually copy the Data and Cofiles to the PROD /usr/sap/trans from the DEV/QA trans directory and then do the import of transports.

To avoid this issue we would like to consolidate /usr/sap/trans and make it as a global directory for the landscape.

Questions:

1. What are the steps to do this ?

2. Any impact due to this consolidation ?

3. What will happen to the current import queus in the landscape ?

4. Any precautions to be followed ?

Appreciate your help

Thanks

Param

[paul_power]

Hi Param,

To add the system, please follow the information at

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/44/b4a0c17acc11d1899e0000e829fbbd/content.htm

To check everything is working please follow these steps:

At first make sure, all 3 system really have physically access to the

same share (DIR_TRANS). As a test create a dummy file in the transport-

directory DIR_TRANS and check via transaction AL11 if all systems see

this new file.

Please also run report "RSTPTEST" via SA38 on all systems/application

server to check the basic TMS settings.

Check the settings of profile parameter DIR_TRANS on

all application servers on all systems, especially prod to be

consistent (RZ11 and/or RZ10).

Also control the transport setup on the domain controller:

Goto STMS -> System Overview

Doubleclick each system

- Check in tab "Communication" if the transport group is really

identical

- in tab "Transporttool" check

o the settings of TRANSDIR hast to be identical on each system to

the value of DIR_TRANS (RZ10).

o check if both parameter NBUFFORM and CTC are set to 1 for all

systems

Also please set them >>globally<< to 1. If necessary add a new

line for these parameters, check the flag "global" and

distribute the changes.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Paul