SAP ABAP Data Element DEVLAYER (Transport Layer in ABAP Workbench)
Hierarchy
SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   BC-CTS-ORG (Application Component) Transport Organizer
     SCTS_TRA (Package) CTS: Transport Control & System Configuration
Basic Data
Data Element DEVLAYER
Short Description Transport Layer in ABAP Workbench  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type DEVLAYER    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 4    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 4    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
Search Help: Name TCE_TRANSPORT_LAYERS    
Search Help: Parameters TRANSLAYER   
Parameter ID   
Default Component name TRANSPORTSCHICHT   
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Layer 
Medium 15 Transport Layer 
Long 20 Transport Layer 
Heading 15 Transport Layer 
Documentation

Definition

The Change and Transport System supports the distribution of development work on large projects across multiple SAP Systems.

The packages in each development system are grouped into one transport layer.

The transport layer determines whether objects are assigned to a local or transportable change request.

Use

Each of your SAP development systems is assigned a transport layer as its standard transport layer. If you use Extended Transport Control, you can assign different standard transport layers to certain clients.

You can define at the most one consolidation target for each SAP System and transport layer.

When you create a package, it is assigned the standard transport layer of the SAP System.
If you want to assign a different transport layer to a package, you require the administration authorization for the Change and Transport System.

The objects in a package automatically have the transport attributes defined for the corresponding transport layer.

  • If a consolidation route originating in their SAP System is defined, then the objects are assigned to a transportable request, and transported into the consolidation target when it is released.
  • If a consolidation route is not defined, the objects are assigned to a local request, and are not transported.

Customizing settings are not assigned to a package. They have the transport attributes of the standard transport layer of the system or client.

It is best to assign a package a standard transport layer for which a consolidation route originating in the development system is defined.

To display and maintain the transport layers and routes, use the Transport Management System (transaction STMS).
Only the system adminstrator can make changes.

Caution:

The tables TSYST, DEVL, TWSYS, TASYS are no longer productive as of Release 4.0A and cannot be maintained.

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20010130 
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