Deleting Transport Management System (TMS) Configuration

This article answers the following queries:

• What is the need to delete TMS configuration?
• How to delete “local” Transport Management System (TMS) Configuration from SAP system?
• What is the Tcode used to delete TMS configuration?
• How to resolve “Local TMS configuration is inconsistent” issue in SAP?

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In some real time scenarios, it is required to delete TMS configuration from SAP system.

Scenarios could be like

i)   If a Transport Management System configuration is inconsistent/not done properly in SAP system. You would like to delete and re-configure

ii)  While performing system refresh activity, TMS configuration to be done as post refresh steps. For example source system SID is different from target system SID. So old configuration need to be deleted and new TMS configuration to be done in the name of new SAP system.

So, Basis consultant should be able to delete the existing TMS configuration. The process for the same is mentioned below.

Transaction code SE06 need to be used for deleting TMS configuration and the deletion should be done from 000 client using DDIC user id /any user id having SAP_ALL access.

If you are performing this activity, after a standard SAP installation, then option 1 to be selected. If you are performing this after Database copy (i.e. System refresh or database refresh) or database migration activity, then 2^nd option in the above screen to be selected and “Perform Post-Installation Actions” push button to be pressed.

After this, system prompts below screen.

Click Yes. This results in below screen. Please input proper source system from which system refresh is being carried out here. Most of the times, SID gets populated automatically. However, please enter it manually in case it was wrongly populated or if it is blank.

System again prompts you as shown below. Here it prompts that can I change originals from source system id(QE1) to target system id (SE1) in  the below screen.

Click yes to proceed further.

Confirm the above screen

Please press Yes in the above screen.

Please press the Yes button to confirm deletion of TMS configuration.

Confirm this.

Confirm this to delete old versions of transport routes.

How to resolve “Local TMS configuration is inconsistent” issue in SAP?

If local TMS configuration is inconsistent,  then existing configuration to be deleted as mentioned in the above article and TMS to be re-configured.

Please note: In this article, have covered only deletion of local TMS configuration. Configuration of TMS will be covered in a separate article.

After this a message appears on the status bar as below. It means existing TMS configuration is deleted and you can proceed to reconfigure TMS


Related Link :

STMS configuration for a standalone SAP system(local transport domain)