Transport Request Backout/Rollback

[paul_stoltz]

There are or were several 3rd party transport management software solutions on the market at one time. Most of them offered a capability to automatically backout changes (by request ID). does anyone know how this would be possible? I would imagine the software would record the version of each object prior to the change in the target system and then if a rollback is requested it would retrieve that version and substitute it for latest version.

I'm just curious if anyone has had any experience with these tools or replicating similar functionality. I believe TRANSPORT EXPRESS & REALTECH's TransportManager are some of the remaining software solutions still on the market, the other was bought by Oracle.

[rossmclanachan]

Hi Paul

You can see a demo of Transport Express 'One Step Transport Reverse' on the Basis Technologies website. It works largely as you have assumed.

http://www.basistechnologies.com/online-demos

The irony is that One Step Transport Reverse is a feature of Transport Express that customers do not generally need to use very often, as the other functionalities of Transport (e.g. automated sequencing and importing and a suite of 30+ analysis checks that ensure transports move in correct order and do not overtake other changes incorrectly, that manual steps do not get forgotten about etc.) means they have far less SAP change management issues than they had prior to using TE, in terms of less import errors, less test issues and less business-impacting Production system issues.

However on the occasions where it is needed on the back of a major incident, the cost-benefit of being able to get the business back up so quickly is huge.

If you are interested in finding out more about Transport Express 'One Step Transport Reverse', please make contact with us via our website. We can even arrange a call with an existing customer that has used that particular functionality, so they can explain how it has helped them.

Thanks

Ross McLanachan

http://www.basistechnologies.com/

For transparency, I should state that I work with Basis Technologies, the software vendor behind Transport Express and other SAP-certified products. Prior to this, I spent almost a decade working in various SAP Change & Release and other delivery roles for a large global SAP consultancy, and so know first-hand the many faced by many SAP customers still delivering their SAP Change using largely manual processes