How to Configure TMS in SAP

Transport Tasks

Configuring TMS - Transport Management System - for the First Time

Note:  if you already have a TMS configured, do not use this section to add a new instance to the existing TMS configuration.  You could severely damage any pre-existing transports, making them untransportable.  Instead, use the following section Adding New Instance to TMS Setup.

1.     Log on to client 000 of the SAP instance to serve as the Domain Controller.

2.     Go to transaction SE06.

3.     Click on the Perform Post Installation Actions button.

4.     Go to transaction STMS.

5.     You should see a popup box with the title TMS: Configure Transport
Domain. If the popup doesn't say that, press F6 to change to the
correct popup box.

6.     Fill in the TMS: Configure Transport Domain popup with the
Description, Name of DOMAIN_<SID>, and the description of the
Transport Domain. Then click Save.

7.     On the Transport Management System screen (if you aren’t there, back out until you are), assuming that this is the first SAP instance and there are no other
installed SAP instances in your landscape yet, and assuming that you
want your transport requests to be transportable and not local only,
click on Overview → Systems.

8.     On the System Overview – Domain Domain_<SID> screen, click SAP System → Create → External System. Fill in QAS if you are going to have a three system configuration or PRD if you are going to have a two system configuration, or make up a <SID> if you are never really going to have another SAP system. Fill in the rest of the information including the Path which is assumed to be
\\<current server>:\usr\sap\trans for NT or /usr/sap/trans for UNIX. Click Environment → Transport Routes.

9.     On the Display Transport Routes screen, click the User Settings button, turn “on” the Hiergraphical List Editor, and click the √ Continue button.  Back out of the screen and then go back in – you should see the list in a text mode which makes it easier to handle.

10.  On the Display Transport Routes screen, click the Display<>Change button to toggle into Change Mode. 

11.  On the Change Transport Routes screen, click Configuration → Standard Configuration → Developmentand Production System.

12.  Fill in the Development and Production System popup, using your current SAP system SID as the Development system and the SAP instance you created in step #8 as the Production system. Click the √ mark to Continue.

13.  Back on the Change Transport Routes screen, click the Save icon and confirm all the popup questions.

14.  On the Change Transport Routes screen, back out until you can once more see the Transport Management System screen.  Click Overview → Systems.

15.  On the Display TMS Configuration: System XXXscreen, double-click the TMS Domain domain controller SAP instance.

16.  On the Display TMS Configuration: System XXXscreen, click the Display<>Changebutton to toggle into Change Mode. Click the Communication tab and make sure that the Transport Group Name is correct.  It should contain of the Domain Controller in the format of DOMAIN_<SID> where <SID> is the System ID of the SAP Domain controller.  Use the dropdown to find the correct entry it the field is blank.  Click the Transport Tool tab.  Verify that the information on the tab is correct and click the Insert Row button.  Add a Parameter of CTC and a Value of 1.  Click the Savebutton.

17.  Do step #16 for every system in your TMS Domain, making sure to change all Transport Group Names are the same and the CTC row is added to each with a value of 1.

18.  Save your way back the the main STMS screen.

19.  You may now leave STMS.

Adding a New SAP Instance to an Existing TMS Domain Controller

1.      Log on to client 000 in the SAP instance you want to add to the existing TMS

 Domain.

2.      Go to transaction SE06.

3.      Click on the Perform Post Installation Actionsbutton.

4.      Go to transaction STMS.

5.      You should see a popup box with the title TMS: Configure Transport
 Domain. Press F6 until you see a TMS: Include System in
 Transport Domain popup.

6.      Fill in the TMS: Include System in Transport Domainpopup with the
 Description, Target Host, and System number of the TMS Domain
 Controller then click Save.

7.      You should see a message that says SAP System waiting to be
 included in the Transport Domain.

8.      Log on to client 000 of the Transport Domain Controller and go to transaction

 STMS, keeping your original session in the other SAP instance open.

9.      On the Transport Management System screen, click Overview → Systems.

 Highlight the System you just added and then click SAP System → Approve.

 Then confirm all the messages.

10.   Back on the Transport Management System screen, click Environment →

    Transport Routes.

11.  On the Display Transport Routes screen, click the Display<>Changebutton

    to toggle into Change Mode.  Click on Edit→ Transport Route → Create.

11.   On the Create Transport Routepopup, use the Consolidation boxes to enter

    the SID of the transport domain, create a Z* transport layer, and the SID

    of the system you are adding.  Click Saveand confirm. Back out to the main

    Transport Management Screen.

12.   Back on the Transport Management System screen, click Overview → Systems.

Double-click on the new system, and click on the Communications tab. Make

sure that the Transport Group name is the name of the original transport

domain. If not, change it. Click the Transport Tooltab.  Verify that the

information on the tab is correct and click the Insert Row button.  Add a

Parameter of CTC and a Value of 1.  Click the Save button.

13.   You can switch back to the new instance, and confirm that the SAP System

    waiting to be included in the Transport Domain has disappeard.

14. You may now log out of both SAP instances.