Official practice for a complex landscape

[Former Member]

HI, in the ADM325 course in 2002 there was a SAP stated recommendation that all transports in the maintenance path must be added manually to the project path to ensure consistency.

ADM325 no longer states this and saphelp kindly states you can set up complex landscapes but gives no recommendations.

As a Basis person I know what the risks are but without some SAP backing I am fighting a loosing battle.

Can someone please point me to a sap recommendation?.... I have looked through the software logistics pages.

regards

Graham

[Former Member]

Hi Graham,

I realise its been quite some time since your question was posted and so I trust you have an answer by now.

In case you haven't found an answer, it is indeed imperitive you replicate your support stream chnages back into your project stream - although I gather this is something you know about already.

As for manual reapplication, merging or retrofitting of these changes this is not always necessary depending on change control technologies employed.

SolMan CHaRM has a recent, but by all repoprts limited, retrofit feature for some automation and others, like Rev-Trac (http://www.xrsc.com), can fully automate the whole process from picking up the support change and automatically applying the change to Project DEV. This particular product (and you should know that I do work with the Vendor that has developed Rev-Trac) has a unique Overtake and Overwrite Protection feature that will alert, or even block, the reapplication if an overwrite is about to occur.

Of course, there are still times when changes need to be manually applied.

If you go to http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/ecohub/solutions/revtrac there is a white paper on the subject you might find helpful.

Hope this helps.

Regards, Rick