Push TR files into SAP ERP system without using TMS

Question

I'm salesforce.com developer and I need to build a simple SFDC/SAP integration scenario for demo purposes.

I have absolutely no experiences with SAP but we have at least a SAP demo system that I can currently access via SAP GUI only. Now a third party integration solution provider passed me some files and told me to transport them into my SAP demo system using transaction STMS. I think I understood that SAP's Transport Managment system is some kind of deployment tool to lift ABAP code from DEV to QA to PROD.

The problem is that the SAP demo system does not include Transport Management or at least the guys from India who host it are not willing to support it.

Now my last hope is to get the ABAP stuff directly into our SAP demo system, but I'm not sure if that's even possible. So if anybody out there can give me a hint on how to proceed I'd be extremely happy!

Thanks and best regards, Henry

Answer 1

Honestly, please, please, PLEASE get someone involved who knows about the system. You'll do yourself and all of us out here who have to support the stuff you build a HUGE favor.

Concerning the transport files, you'll have to upload files to the server and then tell the system to import them. You'll need access to the transport directory, and using the import tools implies that the TMS is configured. If it isn't, you'll need even more knowledge you don't have. All other ways to "get stuff into the systems" are prone to errors you don't even have a chance of anticipating, much less than understanding if you know as little as you say. I don't want to discourage you, but there's nothing to gain in trying to circumvent the TMS, even if doubtlessly someone is going to suggest it along the way. Just take some pointy objects and prod the basis administrators until they import the transport files. It's only a demo system after all. (I hope.)

Answer 2

You can try to ask the people who provided you with the transport files to export the ABAP code to XML files using SAPLink . Then you could try importing them in your SAP Demo system using the same tool. Of course at the very beginning you will probably have errors with unresolved dependencies because your demo system might not have all the needed modules installed.

To export/import some special objects (classes, interfaces, function groups, etc.) you will also need to install some plugins for SAPLink