Business Function Activation with Transport Mode

The following special functions are described in this note:

1. System settings - Activate restart
2. System settings - Transport
3. Subsequently activating an additional language for an industry extension.
4. Transferring special Customizing
1. System settings - Activate restart
When you activate the Switch Framework, the system first changes the statuses of
the switches. That
is, after a runtime of only a few seconds, all switches belonging to the busines
s functions are
activated even though the dependent objects (for example, table appends) were no
t yet activated. If
the activation now terminates for any reason (dump, system shutdown...), you are
not able to restart
the job by choosing the activate button. This is due to the fact that at this po
int, all settings of
the Switch Frameworks are already included in the active version.
Due to the restart, all active settings are copied to an inactive version. This
inactive version is
then activated.If the activation itself recognizes an error and therefore cancel
s the job, the system displays a
selection dialog box where you can choose between "continue" and "restart". Thes
e options mean the
following:
Continue: The previous job was terminated after the activation of the dictionary
objects because
serious errors occurred. If you select "Continue", all steps after the dictionar
y activation are
executed. This option is useful only if you could eliminate the errors in the di
ctionary in the
meantime.
Restart: The new job starts again right from the beginning, that is, prior to th
e dictionary
activation. This option is useful if you have corrected the problem by implement
ing a source code
correction and the problem will no longer occur when you repeat the activation.
2. System settings - Transport
The system writes the entire settings, that is, all of the activated business fu
nctions that are
displayed in transaction SFW5, to a transport request. For this, you do not need
to select any rows.
You cannot transport only a part of the activated business functions. The transp
ort request then
contains an object with the text "Status tables Switch Framework client-independ
ent" and the name
"A". The data is imported into the target system as dictionary objects and then
activated.
Contrary to the manual activation of business functions in transaction SFW5, you
do not have to set
the system to "changeable" in this case.
Effects on the target system
You are not allowed to deactivate irreversible business functions. For this reas
on, the import of
system settings that would cause the deactivation of a business function is not
performed.

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Therefore, the system settings remain the same in this case.
You are also not allowed to deactivate reversible business functions in producti
on systems. Same as
in the case above, the import of system settings that would cause the deactivati
on of reversible
business functions is not performed and the system settings remain the same.
In both cases, the system logs the fact that the import of the system setting wa
s ignored in the
Switch Framework log (messages SFW 017 or SFW 405). You can display the log in t
ransaction SFW5 by
using the function "Goto -> Switch Framework Logs".
3. Activating an additional language for an industry extension at a later stage.
Extension.
You can find more detailed information about this function in SAP Note
876718 "Activating languages for Industry Extensions".
4. Transferring special Customizing
You can find more detailed information about this function in SAP Note
868771 "SAP ECC Industry Extensions: Copy Special Customizing".