Change & Transport Management (CTS/TMS)

What two conditions decide whether a change request is transportable or local?

What is a transport domain in TMS?

What are the three name ranges for development objects, and how is each recognized?

What is the key difference between an import return code of 8 and one of 12 or higher?

What is the difference between a consolidation route and a delivery route?

On the SE09/SE10 initial screen, what are the default selection criteria?

When a request is exported, how are the data file, co-file, and transport log named?

Inside a change request, what is a 'task' and why does each developer get one?

Why must the RDDIMPDP background job be scheduled, and in which client?

What is a 'transport of copies', and how does it differ from a normal change request?

Why use RDDNEWPP2 rather than the older RDDNEWPP to schedule the import job?

With TMS Quality Assurance enabled, how is a request stopped from reaching production before approval?

What do system change options control, and how do they differ from client change options?

What happens when the owner releases a transportable change request?

What are the two general rules about where a development object may be changed?

The 'first letter' rule for name ranges has exceptions — what is a notable one?

What are the four global modifiability settings for software components?

What do transport return codes 0, 4, 8, and 12 mean?

In the Change and Transport System, what qualifies as a "change"?

What transport object types does SE01 (Transport Organizer, Extended View) expose that SE09 and SE10 do not?

When and where must the transport system (CTS) be initialized?

How does a 'simple' repository object differ from a container object in a transport request?

How does CTS initialization differ when a system was created as a database copy rather than a fresh install?

What is a virtual system in TMS, and why create one?

What is a 'repair', and why is any change to an SAP standard object always a repair?

When running the tp transport tool from the command line, what must always be supplied?

What are the three standard TMS QA approval levels?

What is a CTS project used for?

Which software components can never be made fully modifiable, and what is their limit?

What is the TMS domain controller, and where does SAP recommend placing it?

What modifiability setting is recommended for development versus test and production systems?

What are the principal phases of a transport import, and which objects trigger the dictionary phases?

What precondition about the file system must hold across systems in a transport domain?

When is a change to an object transportable versus local?

At a high level, what is the chain of programs and events when STMS imports a request?

How do transactions SE01, SE09, and SE10 relate to each other today?

Where do you approve or reject transports under TMS QA, and what happens once all levels approve?

What are the three types of task in CTS?

How is a repository object's name structured inside a transport request?

What does a package's transport layer control?

What is a system's import buffer (import queue)?

What is the 'source system' of a development object, and what is it for SAP-delivered objects?

What is a transport target group in Extended Transport Control?

What two capabilities does Extended Transport Control (CTC) add to transport routing?

CTS has its own names for landscape systems — what do integration, consolidation, and delivery correspond to?

How is a change request named in a customer system?

What are the two types of change request, and what actually distinguishes them?

What happens when a developer releases their task?

Which import activities are NOT done by R3trans, and how are they handled?

In a recommended SAP landscape, what are the three systems and each one's role?

When importing several requests at once, why does the system process them by phase rather than one request at a time?

What is the division of labor between the tp and R3trans programs?

What are the ways to import from the queue, and how can you prevent accidental mass imports?

What are the two ways to make a different system the TMS domain controller?

Which kinds of system modifications are NOT handled by CTS?

What is Change Request Management (ChaRM), and what does it change about how transports are handled?

What distinguishes a workbench change from a customizing change?

What is the TMSADM user, and what changed about its password?

What is a package in the SAP repository?

What does it mean that an ABAP program is a 'container object' with subobjects?