Best practice to NOT transport reports?

Hi,
I was once told that it was best practice NOT to transport reports, templates, process chains and packages. (BW 3.5). These objects changed so often that you would spend to much time transporting. Now I have heard from others that it is usual to transport these things. What is your opinion on this?
Regards Silje

Hi,
Test queries for the user and the process chains which are needed to be created and not affecting any data loads and need not be tested in test system like deleting the PSA....these kind of objects are directly created in production and need not be transported again.
But even in the case of process chains changes are not supposed to be done directly in production.
But SOX compliance and SAP says that every object should be first changed into development and transported till production...and as you said its usual to do changes to these objects and transport them to production.
Thanks
Ajeet

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