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Problems removing objects from package

Former Member — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:15:28 GMT

Hi everyone,

I will try to explain my problem as accurately as possible.

First of all, we have a set of packages containing various objects, Classes, Data elements, Tables, etc...

This package contains subpackages which again contain objects.

Earlier this week it has been decided that the whole product has to be cleared off the system, so I started by removing the objects from the packages.

Once all the objects were removed, I released the transport containing the deleted objects.

When I tried removing the packages, I got a message saying there were still objects in the packages. I did a package check and got a list of errors for every object that was previously in the package. So the packages think the objects should still be there.

I am confused as to what went wrong... I had to do this earlier on the same system and everything went very smoothly.

I tried doing some research on this but couldn't find anything similar, so I looked into the the system a bit more to find out what was going wrong.

Has anyone any idea of how I can clean this up?

Thank you.

David

Re: Problems removing objects from package

FredericGirod — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 05:39:10 GMT

Hi David,

did you try to find with a SQL trace (ST05) witch tables contains these links ?

Sometimes there is problem in the table contains the "use case", you could rebuild it, but .. with something, if you have delete the object I don't know how to rebuild it

Maybe you will have to find a program provide by SAP in an OSS note, or delete direct the lines table.

Regards

Fred

Re: Problems removing objects from package

Venkat_Sesha — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 05:48:24 GMT

Hi David,

Please go to SE03. and you have a package option to this. Please enter the Package name and it will list all the objects and you can delete it from there. Hope this solves your problem.

Happy Coding

Re: Problems removing objects from package

kesarikatakam — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 06:12:06 GMT

Hello David,

When you delete the sub objects the object directory entry (TADIR) would not be deleted still. This gets deleted only when you release your transport .

Once the TADIR entries are deleted , you can go ahead and delete the package.

You can refer to my recent post which explains an approach of Deletion transport http://scn.sap.com/community/abap/blog/2013/08/14/how-i-do-it-purpose-and-the-creation-of-a-deletion-transport

Regards

Kesari Katakam

Re: Problems removing objects from package

kesarikatakam — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 07:31:00 GMT

Have you checked the option to "Rebuild Object List" from the package Right Click options..

( i overlooked the release of transport you mentioned ) .

Re: Problems removing objects from package

Former Member — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:59:42 GMT

I am not really sure how the SQL trace would help me out, I am not tryin to rebuild the objects... I am trying to have them removed...

Re: Problems removing objects from package

Former Member — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:07:09 GMT

Hi,

Can you be more specific on what to do in SE03? I know it is possible to remove packages from SE03, but not repository objects.

Re: Problems removing objects from package

Former Member — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:08:34 GMT

Hi,

I have done the Rebuild Object List option, with no effect...

Something must be going wrong... I have released my transports and would have expected this to fix the TADIR entries, but it didn't. Now I am stuck with inconsistent packages.

I have tried transaction STDR to clean the TADIR inconsistencies... But it won't let me remove the objects as they are not local.

I am not sure which direction to take on this issue for now.

Re: Problems removing objects from package

Former Member — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:08:19 GMT

After research I found out that only local objects will have their entry removed in TADIR.

For repository objects, the TADIR entry remains but with a DELFLAG set to 'X'...

Clearly here the DELFLAG is not set to 'X'...

I have an idea on how to have that flag set, but it is kind of a bruteforce approach... Which I would prefer to avoid...

If someone has any suggestions, I would really appreciate.

Best regards,

David

Re: Problems removing objects from package

kesarikatakam — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:53:18 GMT

Hello David,

The release of transport Deletes the entries from TADIR . If it has only the Deletion Flag set, it might mean that these objects are being edited in multiple transports.

So please check e071 with all the objects which you still see in TADIR, and release all unreleased transports ( if any ) .

Regards

Kesari

Re: Problems removing objects from package

randy_plunkett — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:26:08 GMT

Did you see there is a note for this issue? 1156585

I ran into the same problem but the circumstances were different. I was creating new objects in a new Package. When I tried to use the new objects from a transformation routine that's when I got an error that the package was inaccessible from the transformation routine. Since I couldn't use the package I moved my objects to one that worked. When I tried to delete the new package, it wouldn't let me saying it still contained objects even though it appears empty in SE80.

Cheers,

Randy

Re: Problems removing objects from package

Former Member — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:50:31 GMT

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Re: Problems removing objects from package

Former Member — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:27:49 GMT

Hello,

check SAP note 1156585 for help first. The deletion of a package that is not yet empty always requires at least 2 transport requests.

First delete all dev. objects visible in the SE80 tree and release the related transport request. During the request release, R3Trans recognizes when a dev. object is really deleted (i. e. no meta data entries exist) and deletes then the related TADIR entry. Never delete TADIR entries manually !!

If the package <Package_Name> is 'empty' (i. e. no more dev. objects are assigned to it), TADIR for that package at most contains two entries: R3TR DEVC <Package_Name> and R3TR AVAS ... . Such a package can be deleted using SE80 or SE21. Don't care about the R3TR AVAS, that will be deleted by R3Trans during transport request release.

If the package can still not be deleted, check table TADIR using SE16 and enter the package name in the field DEVCLASS. If there are entries besides the R3TR DEVC <Package_Name> and R3TR AVAS, create a new transport request in TA SE09, delete the empty request task, double-click onto the request header and enter all TADIR entries (except R3TR DEVC <Package_Name>) being displayed for the package in SE16. Release the transport request. After having released it, check in the requests piece list, which entries are not marked with the 'Deleted' icon. Open the export log of the transport request and check the entries of the objects which are not correctly deleted. The log shows in which database tables still meta data entries exist. Delete these database entries e. g. by writing a little report with the respective DELETE statements.

Again create a new transport request in TA SE09, delete the empty request task, double-click onto the request header and enter all TADIR entries (except R3TR DEVC <Package_Name>) being displayed for the package in SE16. Release the transport request. Now, all TADIR entries of the dev. objects of the package should have been deleted by R3Trans during the transport request release.

Now delete the empty package and release the transport request.

Regards,

Stefan