Change & Transport Management (CTS/TMS)

What does a package's transport layer control?

What does the SAP transport layer do for changes to SAP standard objects?

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

How is a change request named, and what does K9 signify?

What two things determine whether a change request is transportable or local?

How does releasing a local change request differ from releasing a transportable one?

Why does a change request create a separate task for each developer?

What happens when a developer releases their task?

What are relocations, and what are the three kinds?

What are the three parts of a repository object's name, e.g. R3TR PROG ZFOO?

Why does a transport record only the changed LIMU subobjects of a complex object?

When and how must CTS be initialized?

After opening production for an urgent fix, what must you do and why?

Why would you create a future QA system as a virtual system?

Where is a system's import queue displayed, and from where can imports be done?

What is a TMS transport domain, and is it limited to one landscape?

What pieces must you set up to route transports from development to QA?

With TMS Quality Assurance enabled, what happens to a request imported into QA before approval?

How do system change options differ from client change options, and where are they set?

What is the TMS domain controller, and which system should hold the role?

How does a new system formally join an existing transport domain?

What three approval levels does TMS QA provide, and where do you approve?

At what three levels is repository modifiability controlled, and what's the cap for SAP_ABA/SAP_BASIS?

What's the difference between a consolidation route and a delivery route in TMS?

What's the division of labor between tp and R3trans?

What do CTS projects do, and where are they created?

How does TMS communicate between domain systems, and what user does it use?

How does tp get the SAP system to do dictionary activation and ABAP generation during import?

What is ChaRM, and how does it change where change requests are created?

What distinguishes a workbench request from a customizing request?

For request SIDK9nnnnn, how are the cofile, datafile, and export log named?

What are the three task types?

What system change option settings does SAP recommend across the landscape?

What kinds of change does the Change and Transport System (CTS) manage, and what falls outside it?

In CTS terms, what are the integration, consolidation, and delivery systems in a three-system landscape?

What's the difference between workbench changes and customizing changes in terms of clients?

What is an object's 'source system', and how does it differ for customer vs SAP-delivered objects?

Why should an object be modified in its source system, and what happens if you change it elsewhere?

What are the three development-object name ranges, and how do their names start?

What's the risk if a developer creates a customer object in the SAP name range despite the warning?

What is a package, and why must customer-object packages begin with Z or Y?

Which changes are transportable vs local with respect to the source system?

How does the system decide whether a changed object is 'at home' (transportable) or 'foreign' (local)?

What four things happen when the owner releases a transportable change request?

After a request is imported into the consolidation system, how does it reach the production buffer?

What are the principal transport import phases?

When many requests import at once, why is the import serialized by phase rather than by request?

What's special about a 'transport of copies', and how does it differ from a normal transport?

How do transactions SE01, SE09, and SE10 relate?

Which background job must be scheduled in client 000 or transports can't import, and as which user does it run?

Which two kernel executables do the actual transport work, and what does TMS do?

What are the two ways to change the TMS domain controller?

What do tp import return codes 0, 4, 8, and 12+ mean?

What are the three ways to import from the queue, and how do you guard against the dangerous import-all?

What does extended transport control (CTC = 1) add to routing?

When running tp from the command line, what must you always pass, and what are useful commands?