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The last ABAP Trial Version for Newbies Part 7: Creating a Program and a Package - An Introduction to the SAPChange and Transport System was about the CTS (Change and Transport System), where you have got a briefoverview of the transport mechanism on the ABAP Application Server. This blog explains what you have to do to get apackage with your development objects out of a system. For our purposes, exporting a package means to get it out ofthe ABAP universe to the installation level. Let's assume that you have created some programs or Web Dynprocomponents in the old (SP8) Trial Version and you want to upgrade the Trial Version to SP11. You use the transportsystem to save your programs and components and make them availiable in the new system. You first need to set upthe Transport System for the export. On the installation level, the 'SAP' directory must be shared to the 'System' user.Open the MS Explorer, select the 'SAP' directory and choose 'Sharing and Security...' from the context menu. Select the'Share this folder' option, and enter 'sapmnt' as the share name.

Choose 'Permissions'. Add a new user 'SYSTEM' with full

ABAP Trial Version for Newbies: Part 8 ' Exportingdevelopment objects from SP8 'Posted by Manfred Lutz in manfred.lutz on Apr 25, 2007 6:21:05 AM

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control. Choose 'Apply' and then 'OK'. Now the changeson installation level are complete. To set up the transport environment, you need to start the Transport ManagmentSystem (Transaction STMS).

Choose 'SystemOverview' (red rectangle) and select 'CL5' from the table. Open the context menu, and choose 'Extras'. Then, choose'Distribute and Activate Configuration'.

Leave the distributionoptions as the default. Choose 'Enter'. After you have successfully distributed the transport environment, there are twofiles in the 'bin' directory of the 'trans' tree on the installation level. These files are required by the RFC (Remote FunctionCall) to retrieve information about the receiver side.

Thetree should look like this. Now the setup of transport system is complete. In our example, we assume that there is adevelopment object 'Z_MY_QUIZ' in an old Trial Version (SP8) that you need to migrate to the new Trial Version (SP11),since you can have only one ABAP Trial Version on your PC. This object is a copy of the 'WDT_QUIZ' Web DynproABAP component in the Trial Version. To export an object, it must belong to a package. How to create a package isshown in the previous New Blog Series: ABAP Trial Version for Newbies in this series. The package for migration inthis blog is 'Z_MY_PACKAGE'. Let's assume that the object you want to migrate is created as a local object. (newusers do not normally concern themselves with packages and workbench orders.) You first need to reassign the objectto a package. Go to the ABAP workbench (SE80) and select the component you want to reassign.

This would be the rightway to reassign the object, but be careful: there is a bug in the current version. Mime objects will not be written to theexport. For that you need to copy the component to a new object that is related to a package.

Choose ENTER.

The system prompts you with the workbenchrequest to create the package. This request will comprise all the objects from the package, and will be the basis of the

transport. Choose ENTER. SAVE. There maybe another dialog step - confirm this in the same way. Now the package Z_MY_PACKAGE which contains all theobjects in the Web Dynpro Component/Application Z_MY_QUIZ is linked to the workbench order NSPK900044. In thefollowing steps, this order and the related tasks will be released. Open the transport organizer (transaction SE09). Youwill find the virtual system 'CL5' as the destination of our transport.

Select thecorrection (NSPK900045) for our workbench order, and click the truck icon in the menu bar. This releases the correction.A released correction cannot be changed. To release a workbench order, all the related corrections must be releasedfirst. After releasing the correction, an OK icon appears right to the correction.

Youprocess the workbench order in the same way. Place the cursor on the workbench order and click the truck icon in themenu bar. This starts the physical transport.

Tofind out when the transport is finished, you will have to refresh a couple of times.

Nowthe transport is complete. On the level of the intallation, there is data written to two files. The 'cofiles' directory containsthe header information in a file beginning with 'K' followed by the workbench order number and ended with the system

ID. The transport data canbe found in the 'data' directory beginning with 'R' followed by the workbench order number and ended with the system

ID. These two files can becopied to the corresponding directories in any other SAP system in order to be imported. This will be the topic of the next

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blog. There are two forums where you can post your questions and ask for help in case of trouble. SoftwareDownloadsfor general discussions about the trial versions ( interesting projects you are doing with it, wishes for thefuture,…) SAP NetWeaver Application Serverfor concrete problems with the installation

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Peter Inotai Apr 25, 2007 6:59 AM

Hi Manfred,I was surprised, that sapmnt wasn't shared by default. I think it was the case for previous releases.Is there a particular reason for this?If not, it would make sense to have it by default as part of the installation script.Thanks in advance,Peter

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Klaus Keller Apr 25, 2007 1:57 PM (in response to Peter Inotai)

Hi Peter,

In earlier releases the installer added a dedicated operating system user and shared thefolder as sapmnt by the default. The newer versions don't create this specific sap user and asyou can read in this blog, the system (owner of the sap application server process) needs fullaccess, thus write and read to the sapmnt. Sharing by default would lead to a share, thatcould be written and read by everyone. So, for security reasons the user have to set up thisshare on his own using the above mentioned sharing permissions as explained above in thisblog.

Kind regards,Klaus

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Peter Inotai Apr 26, 2007 12:03 AM (in response to Klaus Keller)

Hi Klaus,Thanks for your detailed explanation.Best regards,Peter

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Jun 18, 2009 2:44 AM (in response to Peter Inotai)

Hii had install SAPNWABAP701SR1_TRIAL on my server. In the transactionSTMS want configuration for transport under "extras->Distribute andActivate TMS Configuration" and choose the option "DistributeConfiguration to All Systems". Than the error message

System NSP Command TMS_PM_DISTRIBUTE_PROFILEClient 001 Service Communication InterfaceUser BCUSER Start OnlineDate 17.06.2009 Function TMS_PS_WRITE_PROFILE_TO_DISKTime 11:52:39 Message RFC_COMMUNICATION_FAILURE

RFC communications error with system/destination TMSADMatNSP.DOMAIN_NSP Error when opening an RFC connectionThe folder usr is share named "sapmnt" and the SYSTEM User had fullpermission of the folder.What i do it wrong?

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Christian Kipp Aug 26, 2009 2:07 AM (in response to )

Hello, maybe the solution described here will solve the problem:

NetWeaver ABAP Trial version 7.01 errorTP_CANNOT_CONNECT_SYSTEM

It worked for me. I just changed the host to "localhost"

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kumar r Mar 10, 2008 10:24 PM (in response to Klaus Keller)

Hi Klaus,

Thanks for your guidance, I have given the access permissions for the shared folderfor the user "SYSTEM". In XP , But i am getting the following error"TP_DOMAIN_NSP.PFL could not be opened for writing (Invalid argument)".

What would be the issue ? When i try to access my sapmnt shared folder thorughwindows explorer, The accesss is been denied by the system.

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Klaus Keller Mar 11, 2008 9:02 AM (in response to kumar r)

Hi,

The user SYSTEM requires read and write permission to the file (see 2ndscreenshot). Have you granted these permissions to the user SYSTEMand checked whether the file "TP_DOMAIN_NSP.PFL" exists?

Kind regards,Klaus

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Karthikeyan B Jun 15, 2009 4:05 AM (in response to Klaus Keller)

Hi Klaus,I tried the same.the folder 'sap' is shared for user SYSTEM with full access.But when i try generate from STMS transaction,the two files aregenerated in the 'bin' folder.

Thanks in Advance!RegardsKarthik

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Klaus Keller Jun 18, 2009 2:16 AM (in response toKarthikeyan B)

Hi Karthik,

The bin folder is the correct place for the 2 files.

Kind regards,Klaus

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David Leon Jun 9, 2007 9:27 AM

My XP computer does not provide same options for folder sharing. Instead of the dialogs shown itinstructs me to drag the folder to the Shared Doc folder which I did once and caused a disaster as Ihad to reinstall NW04s. Any suggestions?

Klaus Keller Jun 26, 2007 2:53 AM (in response to David Leon)

Hello,

You could try this:Open an explorer, go to "Tools"->"Folder Options..."->"View". In the "Advanced settings" areadisable the option "Use simple file sharing".Now right-click on the SAP folder and click on "Sharing and Security...". You should be ableto apply as described in this blog.

Hope this helps.Kind regards,Klaus

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Community User Sep 5, 2007 6:42 AM

I am new to SAP and could not proceed to complete the steps in the blog above.

My platform is PC desktop with WinXP and SAP NW7.0 ABAP Trial SP12. I am stuck at the locatingthe z_my_quiz to change the package assignment. I will have the problem to complete part 8 and 9 asthese blogs are related.

Is there any methods to create the respective objects (z_my_quiz and z_my_package) in SP12 aloneas I do not have SP8?

Your response is highly appreciated.

Thank you.

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Julio Torres Oct 9, 2007 7:11 PM

Hi,

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Fabiano Bartholomeu Sep 6, 2008 10:08 PM (in response to Julio Torres)

Hi, File smartbrowsesandvine\sapmnt\trans\bin\TP_DOMAIN_N <br/> could not be opened forwriting (No such file or <br/> directory) <br/>Believeor not, I've already wasted more than fifty hours searching the web and trying to solve thisproblem! <br/><br/>Please, I need some help.<br/><br/>Thanks in advance,<br/><br/>Fabiano Bartholomeu.

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Christian Zahl Aug 19, 2009 8:26 AM

Hi,I installed the SAPNWABAP701SR1_TRIAL and followed the steps in this BLOG (many thanks forwriting this helpful baby!!!). When trying to setup the transportation layer, I also got the error windowregarding "RFC_COMMUNICATION_FAILURE".

After digging a long time in the web and the logs, I found the reason behind. In the dev_w0 I found: M Wed Aug 19 16:53:08 2009M ***LOG Q0I=> NiPGetHostByName: hostname 'PWDF3101' not found: gethostbyname (11004:WSANO_DATA: Valid name, no data record of requested type) [ninti.c 320]

There is an APAP connection defined, which referes to the host "PWDF3101" (can be seen in theverified by SM59). As this is unknown, the "gethostbyname" returns with the error code 11004 (whichyou can see in the sapmmc).

By adding this host to the local hosts file, while pointing to my own IP, the problem was solved, e.g.10.10.0.10 PWDF3101

. Note that you have either to reset the hostname buffer (SM51), or simply restart the SAP by thesapmmc.

Hope this is helpfull...CU,Christian

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Sep 1, 2009 4:37 AM (in response to Christian Zahl)

Hi,

I have just changed the Target Host in the TMS configuration for NSP with transaction STMSbefore distributing and the problem was solved.

Regards,

Rafael