1998382 - User DDIC for Transport Activities

A. The scope of this KBA is to show, how the DDIC user can be substituted with other user to import of Support Packages and transports. The end result is to reduce the vulnerability of the system.

B.
Symptom 1: You get  "You do not have authorization for the database modification" during SPAM update or at Support Package Import.

Symptom 2: Transport jobs (e.g., RDDMASGL) terminate with Runtime Error "DATASET_REOPEN" during SPAM update, Support Package Import or ad-on installation via SAINT.

Image/data in this KBA is from SAP internal systems, sample data, or demo systems. Any resemblance to real data is purely coincidental.

SAP_BASIS release independent

SPAM, SAINT, DATASET_REOPEN, RDDIMPDP, RDDMASGL, Authorization, SAP_ALL, SAP_NEW, DDIC, sm37 , KBA , BC-CTS-TMS , Transport Management System , BC-UPG-TLS-TLA , Upgrade tools for ABAP , BC-UPG-OCS-SPA , Support package tools for ABAP , BC-CCM-BTC , Background Processing , BC-SEC-USR , User Administration , How To