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Risk Assessment
Advanced Configuration Topics » Transport Express Analyzers » Configurable Analyzers » Risk Assessment
Parameters: MINIMUMRISKLEVEL: Minimum Risk Level from table/BTI/TE_RISKL RISKGROUP: Risk Group from table /BTI/TE_RISKG This analysis type checks all objects on the selected transport requests and highlights any that contain objects identified as a…
Test Script Radar
Advanced Configuration Topics » Transport Express Analyzers » Configurable Analyzers » Test Script Radar
Parameters: CHECK_LINKS: Check if the link creation is up to date MAX_LEVEL: Maximum recursion level for analyser (Default = 10) MAX_OBJ_TIME: Maximum time to analyse an object (Default = 60 seconds) TARGET: Target ID where the dependencies will be checked This…
Approvals and Test Results Entry Authorisations
Advanced Configuration Topics » Authorisations » Approvals and Test Results Entry Authorisations
To control approvals and test results entry / approval for non-administrators the following activities can be allocated to users. Activity Authorisation Object Description APPROVEALL Y_TEUSER (User Activities) Allows…
Enter the test results for a business task
Advanced Configuration Topics » Integration » Inbound Integration » Web Services » Enter the test results for a business task
Allows test results to be entered against a business task. Transport Express uses a test series to log the test results. Closing the test series will approve the testing and move the task and its associated transports to the next location / process control point in…
Integration Process Flow
Advanced Configuration Topics » Integration » Integration Process Flow
The Transport Express Integration Framework provides an open architecture for passing messages into and out of the system in a multitude of ways. Although integration can be set up in many ways, one of the more common scenarios is explained in detail below: In…
Hints – Defining Transport Paths
Configuring Transport Express » Assigning Targets to a Transport Path » Hints – Defining Transport Paths
It is useful to add the development target to the root level of a transport path. This allows client-dependent transport requests to be imported into other clients of the development system. If a target option is disabled, then transport requests that are…
User Exits
Deployment Considerations » User Exits
The following user-exits are available to enhance Transport Express for specific requirements of the end client: User Exit Description Validation during saving of a Transport Form (Exit Identifier 0010) When a transport form is being…
Assigning Targets to a Transport Path
Configuring Transport Express » Assigning Targets to a Transport Path
Once a transport path has been created, target systems need to be assigned. Select the transport path in the configuration window – the targets that are currently assigned will appear in the transport path tree Next, drag each required target to the tree and…
Defining Transport Paths
Configuring Transport Express » Defining Transport Paths
A transport path is a hierarchy of target SAP systems, determining the systems that a transport request will be imported into and in what order. The transport path also determines whether changes need to be approved and/or tested. Each transport request is associated…
Integration Scenarios
Advanced Configuration Topics » Integration » Integration Scenarios
The standard integration scenario is to combine TE and a third party IT Service Management product, and possibly a Test Automation product to create a fully integrated end-to-end process for managing change. This typically requires both inbound and outbound…
Web Services
Advanced Configuration Topics » Integration » Inbound Integration » Web Services
The technical definitions are available as WSDL both for the main definition and test endpoint . The following documentation, which details every action available, has been generated from the WSDL above. Port type _-BTI_-TE_TASK_WS
Cross-System Dependencies
Advanced Configuration Topics » Cross-System Dependencies
Transport Express allows for dependencies to be defined between transports coming from different SAP development systems. For example, it might be necessary to define a dependency between a change made in an ECC system and another change made in a Business Warehouse…
Inbound Process Flow
Advanced Configuration Topics » Integration » Inbound Integration » Inbound Process Flow
The standard inbound integration process flows would be: Create/Change a Business Task in Transport Express Creating or changing a Business Task requires simple calls to the appropriate web service. When changing a Task, the current field values should be read…
Inbound Integration
Advanced Configuration Topics » Integration » Inbound Integration
For inbound integration scenarios TE provides several SOAP web services; currently, these are: Create a Business Task Change a Business Task Read a Business Task Analyse a Business Task Read the results of an analysis for a Business Task Approve a Business…
Defining Administrators
Configuring Transport Express » Defining Administrators
An administrator is a team member who can maintain the Transport Express configuration and perform all activities within Transport Express including approvals, imports and test result entry / approval. To define a new administrator, select the configuration menu item…
Inbound Integration Process
Advanced Configuration Topics » Integration » Integration Process Flow » Inbound Integration Process
There are two inbound calls in the above scenario: Creation of the Business Task in TE Approval of Testing/Entry of test results once testing complete Both of these calls would be web service calls to standard TE APIs (although alternative techniques are…
Mapping internal values
Advanced Configuration Topics » Integration » Inbound Integration » Web Services » Mapping internal values
All Transport Express web services and API’s expect the TE internal field values to be supplied for them to function correctly. These internal ID’s can be found in the following configuration and transactional tables: WS field Table Field …
Windows Interface Command Line Parameters
Deployment Considerations » Windows Interface Command Line Parameters
The following command line parameters are currently available with the TE GUI: 1. Start the TE GUI at a particular Target and Location TE.EXE /TARGET: /LOCATION: * TARGETID = 4 digit target identifier as per entry in /BTI/TE_TARG * LOCATION = 1…
Participating SAP Systems
Transport Express Architecture » Participating SAP Systems
The Transport Express server software must also be installed in each of the SAP systems that will have transports controlled by Transport Express. When necessary, the server software running in the Transport Express domain controller connects to each of the…
Domain Controller Programs
Deployment Considerations » Domain Controller Programs
There are a number of utility programs available in the back-end TE domain controller that enables you to administer the TE system. Each of these are described below. Report Name Description /BTI/TE_RBACKUP_DATA_EXP_NEW / /BTI/TE_UBACKUP_DATA …
Target Properties – Outbox Approvers
Configuring Transport Express » Defining Targets » Target Properties – Outbox Approvers
Property Description Outbox Approvers Here you specify those people who can approve changes out of the target, from the target’s outbox. For example, a test manager may wish to prevent the flow of changes into the production system until…
Other Configuration Options
Configuring Transport Express » Other Configuration Options
Option Description Require transport forms to be assigned to related tasks When a transport form is completed for a transport request, it is always possible to assign the transport request to one or more tasks, such as a request for a new…
Configuration Overview
Configuring Transport Express » Configuration Overview
In a typical scenario, each system in your SAP system landscape is defined as a target within Transport Express. The target defines the SAP system and the group of clients within that system that changes should be imported into. The team members who can approve…
Configuring a CIQ
Advanced Configuration Topics » Consolidated Import Queues » Configuring a CIQ
To configure a Consolidate Import Queue: Create a Target in Transport Express for the SAP system that you wish to show a consolidated view for. This Target cannot have any control points configured. To act as a CIQ, this Target must have the configuration option…
Deployment status
Configuring Transport Express » Defining Task Statuses » Deployment status
This status relates to where in the Transport deployment process the Task is. Each control point within a path can be configured with a Task status. Whenever a Task, or any of the Transports attached to it are changed or move along a transport path, the Task…
Web User Interface
Deployment Considerations » Web User Interface
Transport Express comes pre-packaged with a web-interface that allows access to key functionality within a web browser. It provides a dashboard based overview of projects and items requiring action allowing the user to easily view and analyse their current…
RFC Destinations
Configuring Transport Express » RFC Destinations
Transport Express uses SAP’s remote function call technology for communication between the various systems in the system landscape, such as when releasing or importing a selection of transport requests. Thus an RFC destination must be defined for every target SAP…
Transport of Copies
Advanced Configuration Topics » Transport of Copies
Transport Express includes the ability to enable authorised users to create Transport of Copies (TOC) of existing transport(s) to enable customers to push TOCs into their test systems. To enable the TOC functionality within TE requires the following…
Consumption of the Remedy Create Change Work Info Web Service
Advanced Configuration Topics » Integration » BMC Remedy plug-in » Consumption of the Remedy Create Change Work Info Web Service
This section outlines the processing that takes place in order for TE to create a Work Info entry linked to a specific Remedy Change Request entry. Remedy TE Web Service trigger code The inbound integration between TE and Remedy utilizes OOTB Remedy Web Services.…
Target Properties – Analysis Types
Configuring Transport Express » Defining Targets » Target Properties – Analysis Types
Property Description Location Here you can switch on the analysis types that are required for the control points of the relevant target system. This allows additional checks and validations to be performed at various points in the…
BSP Services
Deployment Considerations » Web User Interface » BSP Services
The Web-interface runs out of the box from the Transport Express domain controller. You will need to activate the following services via the transaction SICF. default_host -> BTI -> te_web_services default_host -> sap -> bc -> bsp -> bti -> te_bsp_new Other general…
Non-ABAP / Java transports and CTS+
Advanced Configuration Topics » Non-ABAP / Java transports and CTS+
In order to deploy non-ABAP / Java transports, Transport Express utilises CTS+ so this must be setup and configured beforehand. For each non-ABAP / Java system to be managed by Transport Express a new target and RFC destination must be setup as described in the…
Domain Controller Reports
Deployment Considerations » Domain Controller Reports
There are a number of utility programs available in the back-end TE domain controller that enables you to report on the TE system. Each of these are described below. A /BTI/TE menu is available giving access to the key ones. *Report Name / Transactio*n …
Inline Conflict Analysis
Advanced Configuration Topics » Inline Conflict Analysis
Transport Express provides a capability to notify team members, at the point of assigning a change to a transport, if the change conflicts with another change already made to the same content in another development system. When a conflict is detected, the conflicting…