Re-transport the transport request to NQA server after system refresh

Question

Hi
Users are moving the transport requests in NQA (quality server) using STMS tcode and Basis team is moving the trasnport requests using TP command in operating system level.
There are some transport requests that are released and are moved only to NQA server but not in Production server.
After the NQA refresh from Production server, we need to re-create the trasnport route for NQA server
in NQA using SE06 and STMS.
Now users want to re-transport the requests again in NQA server that was moved to NQA before the system copy but they are not able to make it.  In the transport queue, users are able to see their transport requests but they are not able to re-transport.
When basis team try to move the same transport requests using TP command in operating system level, it failed with  error:
- "Transport request is not in buffer".
- x2n0v2:nqaadm 14> transport250_NQAu126 908807
/usr/sap/trans/NDV/cofiles/K908807.NDV
is this the correct cofile ?y
cofile is K908807.NDV
source system is NDV
transport type is K
transport name is NDVK908807
Renamed to K908807.NDV.INTRANSIT on dbcindv
Datafile copied to dbcinqa
Cofile copied to dbcinqa
-rw-rw-r--   1 nqaadm     sapsys       25606 Oct 29 11:13 /usr/sap/trans/NQA/data/R908807.NDV
-rw-rw-r--   1 ndvadm     sapsys       25606 Oct 29 11:13 /usr/sap/trans/NDV/data/R908807.NDV
-rw-rw-r--   1 nqaadm     sapsys         678 Dec  1 19:05 /usr/sap/trans/NQA/cofiles/K908807.NDV
-rw-rw-r--   1 ndvadm     sapsys         678 Dec  1 19:05 /usr/sap/trans/NDV/cofiles/K908807.NDV.INTRANSIT
Please compare the files before proceeding
Do you wish to continue the import?y
tp addtobuffer NDVK908807 NQA pf=TP_DOMAIN_NDV.PFL
This is tp version 305.13.25 (release 46D) for ANY database
Addtobuffer failed for NDVK908807.
  Cofile not existent or corrupted (datafile exists).
  If source system is available you may try to reconstruct
  the cofile using the command "createinfo".
We used the following method to re-transport the requests to NQA server:
"STMS --> Request -->Delete (the request number)" method delete the transport request from transport queue and from the cofiles/data directory of the operating system and then  " STMS --> extra-> other request-> add" allow us to put the transport request back to transport queue in NQA server. Once the transport requests are in queue, we can re-transport all of them one by one or in group.
Question: Is it the right way to re-transport the request in NQA (first delete if from transport queue and then add and then re-import in NQA server).
Id there is any other way to re-transport the requests, pls suggest us.
Thanks
Amar

Answer 1

Amar,
Depending on how many tarnsports you have and also if this is one time, what you can do is ask Basis guys to write a small script which adds to the buffer to your NQA system.
Steps:
1) under /usr/sap/trans/buffer rename the NQA buffer file.
2) create a new empty file NQA (make sure permissions are identical)
3) Provide the list of transports and ask Basis team to put it in a file at Unix level
4) Run a script which will add to the buffer from the source file.
5) From STMS refresh the NQA queue and you should see all the transports ready for import.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Naveed
Edited by: Naveed Qureshi on Dec 4, 2008 8:52 AM