Change Management process for Report Painter tool...

Hi everyone,
I am curious to see what process is used out in the industry to allow report painter reports to be defined and executed in production. Do users define their reports in DEV and use the STMS or the export/import feature or do they create them directly in the PROD environment? I personnally think it should be created in DEV and promoted to the remaining servers within the landscape for proper change and release management.
Do any of your technical resource monitor and look at reports before they are moved to another environment or do you allow your systems analyst or even end users to create their own report without any monitoring by technical resources? How stable is report painter and is there any major performance issue while defining any type of reports?
Any comments are welcomed and appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Luc

Hi Luc,
In vast majority of project I have been participated, the report painter was in responsibility of the consultants and not the users. Usually, these reports were created in test system and then exported, via standard export/import functionalities, to production.
Of course, one can create those reports directly in production (though, without creating a transaction code for them - this will involve CR), but I'd recommend to stick to 'first TEST, then PROD' model. This would put some order in the reports directories, as the creation of a new report will be controlled.
Since, these reports based on totals tables, no performance problems are anticipated.
Regards,
Eli

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