Landscape is a layout or arrangement of the servers .
In an SAP environment there are three system landscape available. A three-system landscape consists of theDevelopment Server(DEV), Quality Assurance Server(QAS) and the Production Server (PRD).
In some SAP Projects, company might maintain pre-production server in addition.
SAP Landscape Architecture
For SAP projects we will flow the below path.
DEVELOPMENT ---> QUALITY ----> PRE-PRODUCTION* ----> PRODUCTION
*Optional.
Transport Requests(TRs) generated in development server during the configuration will be moved according the above shown landscape to have uniformity among servers.
Development Server (DEV) : In Dev Server the consultants do the customization as per the company's requirement and save in workbench requests. The transport requests (TR) will be transported to Quality/Production server.Dev server may have multiple clients such as Sandbox client(Client :190), Golden client (Client :100).
In the initial stages of any implementation project, before sign Off of Blue print ,consultants do all the configuration/customization as per the company’s business process in a sandbox server.
Quality Assurance Server(QAS): In Quality server the team members test the customization. Quality server may have multiple clients such as Integration Test (Client : 300), Training (Clent:700 to 710).
Production Server(PRD): Production Server is where the live data of the company is recorded. All changes/ development is done in development server will be transported to production before GO-Live. Production Server have only one client number ranging between 200-205.It is mostly 200 in all companies.
IDES is for education/ training purpose and is not included in the SAP landscape.
What is Transport requests (TR)?.How to move TRs to other servers?.
Transport requests(TR) is used to transport the developed objects/Configurations from one system to another system. TR is the only way to move changes /development across systems/servers.
Example : Develop the objects/configuration in Development system and move it to Quality and later to Production system.
Two types of transport requests:
1. Workbench Transport Request- records client independent objects like, Functions, reports and tables
2.Customizing Transport Request- records client dependent objects like IMG configurations.
The transaction codes for SAP Transport Management system are SE01, SE09 and SE10.
Scenario : You have created a new personnel subarea called USNA(US North America).While saving you will get a pop up “Prompt for customizing request”.
In that you will get a new transport request no: which unique number created by the SAP .Ex UDDK920220.
Go to transaction SE09 and SE10 , release the TR and move TR to other systems with the help of BASIS consultants.