Detailed Transport Documentation

Summary

When analyzing the contents of a transport, it’s often challenging to understand all entries in the transport because some of them are ‘cryptic’. Instead of having a meaningful key, they have a system generated one that makes it hard to figure out. This is the case for report elements, update rules, transformations, InfoPackages, Routines and Formulas. The Object types in transports are described in table OBJT and in the ABAP/4 include LTR_OBJECTSF02 . In later versions, you can access now certain BI objects by double-clicking on it on the transport screen, for example, transformations.

Documentation tool

A documentation tool that uses the tables mentioned below to translate the generated IDs is useful to follow up on transports: (transport entries are stored in table E071).
InfoPackages: RSLDPIO and RSLDPIOT
Reporting Elements: RZELTDIR and RZELTTXT
Routines: RSARROUTT, formulas: RSAFORMT
Transformations: RSTRAN, update rules: RSUPDINFO

Demo tool

This transport documentation tool was created in MS Excel. Another possible approach would be a similar program in ABAP/4. For a demo, click on Detailed Transport Documentation Demo

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