Change & Transport Management (CTS/TMS)

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is a transport domain in TMS?

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

What happens when a developer releases their task?

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

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

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

Which kinds of system modifications are NOT handled by CTS?

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

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

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

What is a transport target group in Extended Transport Control?

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

What are the four global modifiability settings for software components?

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

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

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?

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

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

When is a change to an object transportable versus local?

What does a package's transport layer control?

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

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

What is a package in the SAP repository?

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

What are the three standard TMS QA approval levels?

How is a change request named in a customer system?

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

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

What is a CTS project used for?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

What distinguishes a workbench change from a customizing change?

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