How to activate ABAP Version Management

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Currently in our SAP ECC 6.0 system, version management is not active.

Hence when u make any changes to the program, only the current version can be seen, we can't compare it with the previous version.

Can someone help on how to active version management

Thanks

Senthil

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try This

To create a version of a program please follow the path given below.

From the ABAP Editor

Utilities > Version > Generate Version

Regards,

Gagan Deep Kaushal

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you for ur reply Gagan,

My query is when we transport any transports to our quality / production, the previous versions of the program is not maintained in QA/Production or a version management has only the current transport version.

Also is our development, some transports history we can find, but for other objects we can't find it

Regards

Senthil

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

For QA and PRD systems this is normal.

Extract from SAP Note 15315 (I know it is old but it is still valid) :

After an import, version management uses only versions for objects which also had versions before the import. This is a principle for improving the performance of the system: imported versions already exist in the source system, so you only have to save the local modifications in the target system and keep them as versions. Versions are used in this way and the storage area required for the versions in minimized.

If you have the problem of carrying out a version verification in the target system, for example for revision purposes, you must make sure that the transport system logs are kept on the operating system level. The logs are not deleted by the correction and transport system, only within the system administration on operating sytem level. From the ALOG file, you can find out which transport was successfully carried out into which system. From the transport number, you can find out which source system the transport came from. The object list for the transport contains a reference to the correction which can be used to find the version in the source system.

Wim