Transport of Copies

ActiveControl includes some Transport of Copies functionality for customers that use this as part of their existing Change & Release processes. This requires some pre-requisite configuration that needs to be done by your local ActiveControl Administrator. Assuming the configuration has been done, right mouse-clicking on transport(s) in the Windows GUI should present a “New Transport of Copies” option.

Figure: Transport of Copies in the Windows GUI

Full will create a TOC of all objects in the selected transport(s)
Delta will create a TOC containing objects that were added to the selected transport(s) since the last TOC was created
Task allows you to create a TOC of a specific SAP task within the transport
Production this can be used to create a packaging TOC containing the objects in multiple transports. (for the purpose of deploying a single TOC to production, instead of all the original transports.

Full, Delta and Task options are intended for customers using TOCs between Development and the first Test system in their landscape. Production option is intended for creating deployment TOCs to Production only.

After choosing the TOC that you want to create, you will be presented with a screen where you can choose the Business Task against which the TOC should go. In most scenarios, you would want to assign the TOC to the same Business Task as the original Transport, to keep them together.

Figure: Creating a TOC

From here the TOC will be created, and the TOC transport request number will be presented on-screen.

Figure: A TOC created by ActiveControl

The TOC that have been created against a source transport are visible via the [Associated TOCs] tab on the Transport Form (this tab will not be visible if no TOCs created).

Figure: the Associated TOCs tab indicates TOCs created against the main source transport

*As of ActiveControl 7.30, a Transport Form is not automatically created for the TOC as part of the standard out-of-the-box product. This has to be done manually via [Create Transport Form] button – or alternatively, a custom user exit has to be delivered by Basis Technologies to automate the Transport Form creation.

*TOC functionality can only be performed from the Windows GUI at this time. It is not possible from the Web UI.

*In the Dev > QA TOC scenario, the TOC will disappear from ActiveControl when the original transport is released and reaches the same location. (ie typically the QA Test Queue). In the Production TOC scenario, the original transports will disappear from ActiveControl when the Production packaging TOC is created. Deleting the Packaging TOC will result in the original transports reappearing.