Need assistance with a transport (TP)

[Former Member]

As information/background, I have been away from SAP and basis for about four years. Due to personnel changes here, I am now returning to it. While I was away, our SAP system was upgraded from version 4.0B to “SAP R/3 ENTERPRISE 47X110”. I was not a part of the upgrade and have no details as to how it was accomplished.

We have two SAP “systems”: DEV and PRD and they are on separate partitions of an i5 520. Both are running on OS/i5 V5R3M5 with up-to-date CUMe packages, etc, and PASE is installed. Both of these “systems” use the 6.20 kernel at patch level 1598. We know that this is an OLD kernel and we need to upgrade. That may be the problem in this case but I have no way to patch our kernel because it is so long out of support and no patches are available. Moreover, I am pulling my hair out trying to create a plan to upgrade to kernel 6.40.

We use ABAP only, we have no JAVA anything and therefore, no NetWeaver (I don't even know what it looks like).

All that being said, we need to implement changes per note 1004311.

Here is what I have done so far and the resulting errors:

Downloaded the .zip file in note 1004311 to my PC.

Unzipped the files locally using WinZip.

FTP'd to the development partition.

Issued command QUOTE SITE NAMEFMT 1

Issued command lcd '/usr/sap/trans/data'

Issued command bin

Issued command put R242611.p6b

Issued command lcd '/usr/sap/trans/cofiles'

Issued command ascii

Issued command put K242611.p6b

Issued command quit

Logged on to the development partition as DEVOFR

Issued command lcd /usr/sap/trans/bin

Command WRKLNK reveals actual path is /QFileSvr.400/<production partition>/sapmnt/trans/bin

Issued command tp 'addtobuffer P6BK242611 DEV'

Results:

This is R3620DEV/TPOS4 version 320.56.80 (release 620)

E-TPSETTINGS could not be opened.

EXIT

Error in TPSETTINGS: transdir not set.

tp returncode summary:

TOOLS: Highest return code of single steps was: 0

ERRORS: Highest tp internal error was: 0208

tp finished with return code: 208

meaning:

error in transportprofil (param missing, unknown,...)

Press ENTER to end terminal session.

Of course, if I can't get it into the buffer, I can't import it.

Where do I go from here to resolve this issue? Is there some other process that I should use instead? I can't find anything in STMS that will allow me to add anything to the buffer.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Robert

[Former Member]

Hello Robert,

Try this... in Tcode STMS, open the Import Queue, Menu Extra - other requests - add.

Best regards,

Victor

[Former Member]

Thanks, Victor. That got it into the queue.

Now, which client do I import it to? 000? Or our own client 200? Or both?

What import options should I use since this is an SAP-developed transport?

Thanks!

Robert

[Former Member]

Hello Robert,

You can review what is contained in the transport and check with the people who requested it.

Typically I import to client 200, unless it fails and states that it has to be client 000. And likely no option is needed.

Best regards,

Victor

[Former Member]

Hi, Victor

Thanks, again.

It imported but has this message:

Ended with return code: ===> 4 <===

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Is that okay to ignore?

Robert

[Former Member]

Hello Robert,

'4' means warning... I would ignore it.

Best regards,

Victor

[Former Member]

Well, now that we've imported it, the developer can't find the objects.

Anyway, thanks for your help, Victor. You answered my question about the import.