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Everything you need to know about SAP Cloud Transport Management _ End to End guide
Hello Beautiful People,
OMG! Finally, I implemented this. And, it was so easy. Well, it’s always difficult until you have faced it.
I have always wanted to implement this, but not a single client that I worked for wanted to give this comfort of Transport Management to their developers until I met my current client, who also are enthusiasts like me, and they were like, “Sookriti, we have got to do this!”.
And thus, I started. The first thing I did was, hit the SAP Cloud Integration Community. I gathered a couple of blogs. I am going to drop them in the reference section. This blog is a quick summary of everything I did that the bloggers mentioned, and also what they didn’t.
It’s my belief that if stumble upon my blog, and want to follow it, chances are, you won’t be disappointed.
Pre-requisites:
A Global Account, a Subaccount, a Space, and below Entitlements:
Source /Target |
Service Name | Technical Name | Plan | Status |
Source | Cloud Transport Management | alm-ts | standard (Application) | ✅ |
Source | Cloud Transport Management | transport | standard | ✅ |
Source | Process Integration Runtime | it-rt |
integration-flow
|
✅
|
Source | Process Integration Runtime | it-rt |
api
|
✅
|
Source | Integration Suite | integrationsuite |
enterprise_agreement (Application)
|
✅
|
Source
|
Content Agent Service
|
content-agent-ui |
free (Application)
|
✅
|
Source
|
Content Agent Service
|
content-agent |
application
|
✅
|
Source
|
Content Agent Service
|
content-agent |
standard
|
✅ |
Target
|
Integration Suite | integrationsuite |
enterprise_agreement (Application)
|
✅
|
Target
|
Process Integration Runtime | it-rt |
integration-flow
|
✅
|
Target | Process Integration Runtime | it-rt |
api
|
✅
|
Create Subscription/ Instance, Service Key, and Destinations in Source and Target Subaccounts in BTP Cockpit
Copy paste this table below in an excel sheet, and start configuring.
Reference No. |
Source/ Target |
Entitlement Name |
Subscription |
Instance |
Instance – Service (Plan) |
Service Key |
Destination |
Destination Name |
|
|
A |
B |
C |
D |
E |
F |
G |
1 |
Source |
Cloud Transport Management |
✅ |
❌ |
➖ |
✅ |
✅ |
TransportManagementService |
2 |
Source |
Integration Suite |
✅ |
❌ |
➖ |
❌ |
❌ |
➖ |
3 |
Source |
Process Integration Runtime |
❌ |
✅ |
Process Integration Runtime (integration-flow) |
✅ |
❌ |
➖ |
4 |
Source |
Process Integration Runtime |
❌ |
✅ |
Process Integration Runtime (api) |
✅ |
✅ |
CloudIntegration |
5 |
Source |
Content Agent Service |
❌ |
✅ |
Content Agent Service (Plan) |
✅ |
✅ |
ContentAssemblyService |
6 |
Source |
➖ |
➖ |
➖ |
➖ |
➖ |
✅ |
TargetDestination |
7 |
Target |
Integration Suite |
✅ |
❌ |
➖ |
❌ |
❌ |
➖ |
8 |
Target |
Process Integration Runtime |
❌ |
✅ |
Process Integration Runtime (api) |
✅ |
✅ |
➖ |
In Source BTP Subaccount:
Reference A1 || Create Entitlements for Cloud Transport Management
Service Name | Technical Name | Plan | Status |
Cloud Transport Management | alm-ts | standard (Application) | ✅ |
Cloud Transport Management | transport | standard | ✅ |
Reference B1 || Create Subscription for Cloud Transport Management
Services ➡ Instances and Subscriptions ➡ Click Create]
Instance Name (as per naming convention) |
Service | Plan |
CloudTransportManagement | Cloud Transport Management | standard |
Reference E1 || Create Service Key for Cloud Transport Management
Services ➡ Instances and Subscriptions ➡ Select Instance ➡ Create Service Key
Reference F1 || Create Destination TransportManagementService
Connectivity ➡️ Destinations
Reference A2 || Create Entitlement for Integration Suite
Service Name | Technical Name | Plan | Status |
Integration Suite | integrationsuite |
enterprise_agreement (Application)
|
✅
|
Reference B2 || Create Subscription Integration Suite
Services ➡ Instances and Subscriptions ➡ Click Create

Reference A3, A4 || In Source _ Create Entitlement for Process Integration Runtime
Service Name | Technical Name | Plan | Status |
Process Integration Runtime | it-rt |
integration-flow
|
✅
|
Process Integration Runtime | it-rt |
api
|
✅
|
Reference B3, B4 || Create Instance for Process Integration Runtime – api
Services ➡ Instances and Subscriptions ➡ Click Create
Reference E4 || Create Service Key for Process Integration Runtime
Services ➡ Instances and Subscriptions ➡ Select Instance ➡ Create Service Key
Reference F4 || Create Destination
Reference A5 || Create Entitlement for Content Agent Service
Service Name | Technical Name | Plan | Status |
Content Agent Service
|
content-agent-ui |
free (Application)
|
✅
|
Content Agent Service
|
content-agent |
application
|
✅
|
Content Agent Service
|
content-agent |
standard
|
✅ |
Reference C5 || Create Instance for Content Agent Service
Services ➡ Instances and Subscriptions ➡ Click Create
Instance Name (as per naming convention) |
Service | Plan |
ContentAgentService | Content Agent Service | standard |
Reference E5 || Create Service Key for Content Agent Service
Services ➡ Instances and Subscriptions ➡ Select Instance ➡ Create Service Key
Reference F5 || Create Destination for Content Agent Service
Connectivity ➡️ Destinations
Connection Test
Reference F6 || Create Destination to connect with TargetDestination
Connectivity ➡️ Destinations
In case you have more than 2 sub-accounts, and you wish to generate a TR each for all the CPI Tenant, add multiple Destination for Target, as shown below:
To summarise:
– the below 4 destinations will be left created:
In Target BTP Subaccount:
Add the entitlements for Integration Suite, and Process Integration Runtime (iflow, and api), in the same way as you added in the Source BTP Tenant.
Create Transport Nodes, and Transport Routes in SAP Cloud Transport Management
Create Transport Nodes
The Source Node should have the following settings:
Create Transport Routes
Create Transport Routes as shown below. One route each representing the route from Dev to the lower environments.
Finally! All configs are complete
Testing Time!
STEP 1: Open the Cloud Integration’s Development or the Source Tenant, and click on Transport button. Then, a pop-up window will open, where you can fill in your precious comments, and select the check-box, as should below, in case you want the “Created By” to reflect your name. If you do not hit that check-box, it will show a system-generated name.
Tears of joy!
Go try it out, let know if it worked. If it didn’t, let me know that too!
Toodles!
Sookriti Mishra
❤️ As Roy T. Bennett says: “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
Thanks for the blog Sookriti Mishra .
One question or shortcoming is, is there a way to set the values of the Externalized Parameters, etc for the target landscape during the transport process?
Hi Jacques,
in my understanding the values of externalized parameters are not transported on purpose, because they can be different in different tenants of your Cloud Integration landscape (Dev, Test, Prod, ...). The idea is that you set the externalized parameters (manually) once for each of your tenants. After that they get reused during each transport of artifacts using them.
Please note that after an import of Cloud Integration artifacts, they are available in their new version in the design time of the target environment. They have to be actively deployed to the runtime in order to be used. In this process you could also adjust the externalized parameters if needed.
Kind regards
Harald
Thanks Harald Stevens Yes I understand that. What I meant was, it would have been nice to have been able to set the values of these parameters for the target system from within Transport Mangament Service, when you do the import to the target environment.
Hi Sookriti,
This is very informative.
Couple of questions:
Thanks