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Author's profile photo Tom Cenens

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 No mapped CTS project for Real CTS project

Just recently I bumped into an issue which I’ve not seen before after gearing up a productive SAP Solution Manager 7.2 system. I decided to share the outcome of my small quest to resolve this issue.

While I was trying to save an ojbect into a transport request, the above error message occured.

I thought “ok no big deal”, let’s Google this one and if that fails I’ll check SAP support portal. SAP Support Portal which is more down than up nowadays but I had my fingers crossed so I was hoping it was actually up and running and I can do my job properly as an effect. It’s like a bad dice roll wihle playing a board game really, hoping that I can actually use the functionality to find and read SAP notes.

Result: 0 hits

Grrr … Annoying when you don’t get a decent answer back huh. So I need to figure out where this error message comes from. For the sake of sharing, I’m going to share what maybe lots of community members already know and do but still I would imagine many perhaps don’t yet do this so it can be of interest to show this.

So I clicked on “Technical Information” to figure out the message text and number that is behind this error message.

You can see here the message class is /TMWFLOW/TRANSPORT_N and the message number is 871.

We can  then use this information to check in transaction SE91 (message maintenance) where this message is used in terms of programs etc.

So next step, navigate to SE91

Insert the message class and message number and then use the “where used button” on the top left in navigation bar to figure out where this is used.

Select Programs, Classes and Web Dynpro Components

Click the green “confirm” button to continue

The message text is used in above program, ok, sounds interesting, let’s check what this thingy does. I already see here “Retrofit” … mm we are not using that in this system so this already sounds slight “off”. Register and assign, sounds like my transport request is registered somehow by tihs program, anyway, let’s dig into the code. … deep … no I’m just kidding, shallow will do just fine.

Double click on the program to get the line where this message text is used on the right. Wow, this doesn’t say anything more. Yes, you are right it doesn’t so we need to go into the actual coding, double click on that line code again on the right side.

The code is in function module /TMWFLOW/REGISTER_AND_ASSIGN. This can be useful later on when I need to search for “information”.

Scroll up just a little bit and you’ll notice in the coding how the table “/tmwflow/cts_map” is being read.

So I checked out this table in our system and it has, surprise, surprise, 0 records in it.

Looking at the table field, I kind of get the idea of what this table seems to be meant for, mapping a “real” CTS project ID, sounds kinda wrong, love it haha with a “mapped” CTS project ID. Sounds like the “real” CTS project ID = non CHARM and the mapped one = CHARM but anyways, pretty irrelevant still at this point. Something I need to check out later on because it does sound interesting.

Ok, enough playing around in this coding and stuff, we need to fix this.

Based on the above, I’ve got enough “ammo” right now I believe to start looking for a solution.

So I start on SAP Support Portal with a search in the knowledge database (SAP notes) on keywords: “/TMWFLOW/CTS_MAP” and another search on “/TMWFLOW/REGISTER_AND_ASSIGN” and I find the grand number of results: 1 hit

Owke … at this point it’s like sitting in airplane and experiencing the touchdown of an airplane while there is a storm, the wheel almost nudges off and a little boy asks his mom “are we going to die?”; A swift sigh of relief as the plane hits the ground (that 1 hit I just found), you’re relieved, you’re just not sure that the plane won’t still go off the landing strip and crash into the decor.

No no, there is hope, positive thinking is key. We got this (I’m starting to talk “we” – where is my magic ring off to).

1483276 – Use of Customizing Parameters in DNO_CUST04, AGS_WORK_CUSTOM, and ICT_CUSTOM

Ok, this might actually work out. Lets search this note for those keywords then.

REGISTER_STANDALONE_TR_ON_SAVE

When you save objects to a transport request in the managed development system, the system calls the SAP Solution Manager system via RFC. In turn, function /TMWFLOW/REGISTER_AND_ASSIGN is called. It checks switch REGISTER_STANDALONE_TR_ON_SAVE as to whether standalone transport requests can be automatically registered into Change Request Management even with standalone retrofit being switched off. This means if one of the switches (REGISTER_STANDALONE_TR_ON_SAVE or standalone retrofit) is active and the transport request is contained in a mapped CTS project (table /TMWFLOW/CTS_MAP), the transport request will be registered into Change Request Management.

Value: Set to ‘X’ to activate

Information reference from SAP note 1483276 (now, when SAP support portal is down you can read at least a small piece of this SAP note, perhaps the relevant thing you need to know)

So here I found that parameter REGISTER_STANDALONE_TR_ON_SAVE actually controls the behavior in the coding that the table that I found is checked to register transport requests for later use in CHARM. Ok, we don’t need this so I need to check transaction DNO_CUST04 if this is enabled.

Yes, this parameter is set !@!

Ok ,remove this parameter.

Oh wait, that doesn’t work? You cannot add object to transport requests because then the system complains about it? Change the SAP client settings in SCC4 to be able to make changes in the system “without recording” so you can get rid of this and change it back to normal.

Issue resolved,

 

The end

 

Stay tuned for the next blog, I’ve been away from writing way too long it seems, I kinda dig it, I enjoy doing this, life is good 🙂

 

 

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      Author's profile photo Karsten Frohn
      Karsten Frohn

      Hi Tom!

      Thank you for this article! It's written soooo brilliant!

      This is the best post I ever read - really funny, reflecting exactly my experience (including SAP Support Portal is down again) and, which should be most important, it's exactly the solution I was searching for for several days.

      Big ups!!!

      Best regards,
      Karsten

       

      Author's profile photo Tom Cenens
      Tom Cenens
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Karsten

      Thanks for the nice words! Glad you enjoyed reading through.

      Best regards

      Tom

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Tom,

       

      Very nice Post. I have similar kind of situation, I am not able to view solman project in SE01 of managed system. I checked mentioned parameter and its not having any value in my solman.

      Do I need to check any specific settings? Kindly help.

       

      Thanks in advance.

      Regards,

      Faisal

      Author's profile photo Tom Cenens
      Tom Cenens
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Faisal

      The CTS projects used in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 are no longer the same as the CTS projects used in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 so you don't find them back in transaction SPRO_ADMIN for example.

      They automatically get a name which is generated by CHARM in SAP Solution Manager 7.2. The easiest way to see which project ID is used is to check out an already existing change document with it's respective transport request and see which project ID is assigned to that transport request.

      Surely this is also stored in specific tables but I haven't really looked for them. Most likely somewhere in a /TMWFLOW/* table I would guess.

      Best regards

      Tom

       

      Author's profile photo Xavier Vermaut
      Xavier Vermaut

      Hello Tom,

      Always fun to find a blog written by an old colleague. Nice job BTW !

      I just wanted to let you know that SAP issued note 2483448 (No mapped CTS project for Real CTS project) which gives more information about this problem.

      Resolution

      Depending on whether you want to use Standalone Retrofit, there are two situations:

      • If you want to use standalone retrofit, then you need to prepare landscape for Retrofit in Solman_setup on your Solution Manager system. During the preparation, the map will be created. You will not get this issue.
        See more information in online help Prerequisites for Using the Retrofit Function
      • If you don’t want to use standalone retrofit, you need to deactive this feature on your Solution Manager system. 
        First please execute transaction SM30-> Enter View /tmwflow/Rconfig-> find parameter Stand-Alone Retrofit Scenarion Activation-> change to inactive. 
        Next execute transaction DNO_CUST04 and set REGISTER_STANDALONE_TR_ON_SAVE to an empty value (clear value X) and save the change. Please also notice that deactive standalone Retrofit will not affect normal/standard Retrofit (You still can use normal Retrofit).

      Cheers,

      Xavier