Problem regarding xi transport

[Former Member]

Hi ,

I have individual SLD for each development DQA and production .

Let me start by what I know about initial SLD setup for transport.

If I am to transport from development sld to QA sld.

Do the technical and busniess system in development ( Td Bd ) sld have to created in QA sld as well so that qa sld has Td Bd Tqa and Bqa and then export from development sld and import in qa sld.

or

QA sld can have Techinal system and business system (Tqa Bqa ) and these can be specified in as transport targets in business system in development sld.

and then just export from development sld and import in qa sld.

or

development sld has both Td Bd and Tqa Bqa and so does Qa sld Td Bd

Tqa Bqa and then export from Development sld and import into qa sld.

Kindly do not post any link to some weblog as I am not able to open them here .

Besides chances are I have already gone through those links .

Kindly Help.

Regards ,

Deepak

[Former Member]

Hi Deepak,

When you transport from Development you need to define transport targets in componetns.

So according to your second option you create Technical and Business systems in QA as TQA and BQA and provide their reference to transport targets.

Transport needs manually copying of files in operating system directiories, I hope you are aware of it.

Regards,

Shri

[Former Member]

Hi Deepak,

You can try ur 2nd option.

Regards,

Vishal

[Former Member]

i go with ur first otion to create BS and TS in the QA again

Cheers,

Raghavesh

[Former Member]

Hi

Your option no 3 seems to be the way to go. Your SLD in Dev should have all the systems defined for all the environments. Most important define your transport targets correctly!

Thanks

Ashish

[Former Member]

HI ,

Thanks for your reply ...I am not sure wether other people even understood my question .

each dev , qa ,production have there own sld .

So if i... say create .. BQA and TQA in dev sld ...and BQA and TQA in qa sld.

Only then can identify them in dev sld BSdev's transport target .

I hope I am correct.

Kindly advice.

Regards,

Deepak

[Former Member]

This is a confusing thing and it really isn't spelled out well in the documentation/notes.

You need to have all of the Bus and Tech systems in all SLDs. The SLDs essentially should be identical. For most of the Bus and Tech systems you can export and import them, but you can't do this for the XI entries which you'll need in all SLDs as well. You have 2 options here:

Option 1:

1) Make sure all SLDs have same model version and content version.

2) Fully backup all SLDs.

3) Switch the SLD for qa and prd to the dev SLD temporarily so that the XI entries are made in the dev SLD.

4) Setup an SLD bridge from qa and prd to dev SLD to send auto-registered qa and prd Bus and Tech systems (R/3) to dev SLD.

5) Full export of dev SLD. Import to qa, import to prd.

Options 2:

1) Make sure all SLDs have same model version and content version.

2) Fully backup all SLDs.

3) Full export of prd SLD. Import to dev.

4) Full export of qa SLD. Import to dev.

5) Full export of dev SLD. Import to qa and prd.

I use option 2 and it has always worked fine for me.

I would also recommend going to 1 or 2 SLDs for all systems to simplify things. If 1 isn't possible (usually because you want to separate PRD from other systems) then try to go to 2 SLDs, 1 for DEV/QA and one for PRD.

Thanks,

J Wolff

[Former Member]

Thanks for the reply J Wolff.

I have a couple of queries regarding these.

As setting up SLD is the initial step in transport ,

Now as DEV ,QA , Prd are three seprate SLD's

QA will already have Technical and Business system for XI ...so would Prd ..

what about the intsalled products and software components in them.

Because If I am to have them in Development SLD then ...I cant create a business system in the same without specifying a product and swcv...which is what I am looking to export from deveopment