The figure illustrates the typical workflow to develop and configure a feature.
The table below illustrates which transport activities are enabled in which feature status:
Available Transport Activities in Which Feature Status
| Feature Status | Create | Assign | Create ToC | Release | Unassign | Deploy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not Planned | no | no | no | no | no | no |
| In Specification | yes | yes | no | no | yes | no |
| In Implementation | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| In Testing | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Successfully Tested | no | no | no | yes | no | yes |
| Ready for Production | no | yes | no | yes | no | yes |
| Deployed | no | no | no | no | no | no |
The screenshots illustrate a feature with two transports for different target tenants and an example of the history of a feature:
- A Feature is the entity for change documentation and deployment orchestration.
- With SAP Cloud ALM, it is easy to assign transports and trigger their deployment throughout your landscape.
- The creation of Transport of Copies (ToC) for early testing without releasing the original transport is possible, if supported by the managed system.
- Traceability is ensured via the history of a feature.
ToC is not supported in Public Cloud Systems; Cloud TMS Adapter cannot do this.
SAP Cloud ALM ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC)
SAP Cloud ALM ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) checks are static analyses and quality assurance processes for ABAP code, used to identify issues like potential performance problems, security vulnerabilities, and compatibility problems with SAP S/4HANA:
By integrating with SAP Cloud ALM, ATC provides a central platform for quality checks across on-premise and cloud developments, helping enforce coding standards and ensuring code quality before deployment.
Transport Checks
In SAP Cloud ALM, Transport Checks are used to evaluate the impact of transports on your production system.
The purpose of Transport Checks is to help ensure that transports do not unintentionally overwrite newer objects and that all dependent or referenced objects are correctly included:
The checks include Downgrade Protection (DGP) , and Cross-Reference Checks, which help maintain system integrity and minimize post-deployment issues:
Transport Checks can be executed per Feature, while the results are displayed per transport line item belonging to this feature:
Check Details per transport are shown side-by-side providing the relevant transports and objects as well as some insights about the conflict scenario.
Based on this information you can take appropriate measures to resolve the conflicts.
For more information regarding prerequisites and usage, please check the Transport Checks section in the SAP Help Portal
Deployment Scheduler
The SAP Cloud ALM Deployment Scheduler allows you to schedule and automate transport deployments across your system landscape.
The Deployment Scheduler enables you to orchestrate status-dependent deployments for various SAP solutions, including SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP and SAP S/4HANA:
You can select target tenants based on system roles such as Quality Assurance, Pre-production, and Production.
The Deployment app helps you deploy features assigned to your deployment plan, allowing for efficient management of transport requests throughout the implementation landscape.
Deployment Checks
When using the the deployment scheduler, Transport Checks can be executed not only per Feature but per Deployment and therefore a bundle of Features:
Conflicts are then displayed per transport while highlighting insights about the conflict scenario and relevant objects:
Based on this information you can take appropriate measures to resolve the conflicts.
Find more information in the SAP Help Portal - Deployment section.
