Client opening in production/Quality systems

Hi Gurus,
I need your inputs on my thoughts regarding client opening in production or quality systems.
Am a BASIS administrator and sometime we get requests from functional teams to open a production or quality client to do some direct changes which are non-transportable from Development.
So, my question is should we open the client with a setting "Automatic recording of changes" or "Changes without automatic recording". If they are really non-transportable, i guess there is no harm with the setting "Changes without automatic recording", but in case if they do some changes directly in production which are transportable from development, then it becomes an issue if the recording is not allowed so there will not be any log.
So please suggest if it better is to set it as "Automatic recording of changes" so that it will create a request and log the changes. It will be helpful to trace of the changes in case those changes are transportable. Is there any harm or audit violation if we set "Automatic recording of changes" in a porduction or quality system?
Am awaiting your thoughts on it.
Thank you,
Ram.

Appreciate your responses Siva and Nick.
Nick: I agree that production client has to be opened only for changes which are not transportable. But once we open the client it allows any change irrespective of transportable or not transportable.
How we will be able to track if the requestor is doing more changes than mentioned in the change request for which he/she is approved for.
If we do not record we have to do lot of post mortum activity later to identify who has done these changes and if we record we can easily trace to the changes done if any than agreed.
In our environment fire fighter setup enabled only in production environment but not in quality. We are trying to enable production changes only through fire fighter but are checking if additionally enabling recording helps or not. What we are finding is it helps us quickly trace the changes done by the user though we have fire fighter logs.
But in quality environment as we do not have fire figher set up and we are seing recording is only possible way of producing necessary audit trail.
As mentioned above if any such transports are created we need to ensure that they are to be released so that objects are not locked under them. Let us know if you see any issues here.
What we are trying to arrive at is a fool proof plan and process when we open clients for direct editing.
Let us know if enabling recording effects in any other way when we open quality or production environment in exceptional cases.
Greatly appreciate your thoughts on this.
Thanks
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