How to Delete Transport request for Delete client

Question

Hi guys,
We are going for upgrade from 46C to ECC.
we found client XXX does not exists but Transport request for the client XXX does exists. so we plan to delete it or release it before going to upgrade.
But SAP does not allow me to delete or release it. Is there any special way to deal this issue.
Please suggest me.
Thanks
Jaichan

Answer 1

You could have the lost client XXX recreated again by system administrator using a "minimal" client copy (just users), should take only minutes and not much disk space.
Then you can release or delete the transports, afterwards delete the client again.
I don't know another way of doing it.
Thomas
P.S. all the other replies so far do not take into account that you cannot change transports that were created in a different client.
P.P.S did you ever look at the long text for message TK056? This clearly explains your options here
To transfer the request to the current client, proceed as follows:
1. Go to the request overview.
2. Position the cursor on the request and choose Request/task -> Display/change.
You are asked if you want to copy the request and all tasks belonging to it to the current client.
3. Answer "Yes".
The request is copied to the current client, and can then be edited as normal.
Note
For this procedure, you require the "Change source client" authorization contained in the SAP standard authorization S_CTS_TR_ALL.
You can copy only your own requests to another client.
In order to copy other users' requests, you first have to assign them to you.
You can reassign the request to you in another client only if the original client no longer exists (prerequisite: You want all client-specific entries to be deleted).
I was not aware of this up to right now...