Software Logistics - Change Control and Transport

On 24th November, I tried to explain and show the Git-enabled Change and Transport System (gCTS) in the SAP Community call ‘Introduction to Git-enabled CTS’. Many questions remained open when time was over. Let me try to answer them in this blog... Read More »

SAP S/4 HANA 2020 is there. It comes with new offerings and features for gCTS. The most important one is maybe the new repository layout – we call it Layout Version 3. When you create new repositories, the new repository layout will be used, the... Read More »

Reducing technical downtime is a key element for SAP S/4HANA transition, specifically in a brownfield transition approach. SAP has been working continuously to help the customers to reduce the technical downtime. The Downtime-Optimized DMO method is... Read More »

If you already looked into Git-enabled CTS (gCTS), you might know that new commits are created in the standard as soon as you release a transport request. But what if this is not possible or not helpful in your case? It might be that many developers... Read More »

  Release started: Cancelled releases can be repeated. Error while trying to release a transport request, “Release started, Cancelled releases can be repeated”. So, when I try to release a TR this is the error I have identified and goggled,... Read More »

O sistema de transporte é um elemento extremamente crítico de um ambiente SAP, e se não for dada a devida atenção durante as fases de planejamento, pode acabar resultando em erros, inconsistências, falhas de segurança e paradas não... Read More »

Do you have any ideas how we could improve the management of lifecycle aspects of your apps running on SAP Cloud Platform or how to ease applying DevOps principles? Maybe you are missing that specific software logistics or DevOps feature that would... Read More »

As mentioned in my previous blog post, I was interested in understanding how the solution could be ported to the SCP ABAP Environment. In theory at least, it is a logical place for it, since it wasn’t dependant on any core SAP logic such as... Read More »

After creating a configuration in the Development system, you may want to transport it to Quality and Production to avoid recreating everything in each system again. In SAP BO, the Life Cycle Management (meaning transport configuration from a system... Read More »

Background The company I work for has a sizeable and complex SAP estate with dozens of production SAP systems and therefore an equally complex development environment.  Although development standards have been in place for a number of years, it is... Read More »