SAP Note 15315 - Version management does not display versions

Symptom:

The customer has imported objects from a source system to a target system using a transport order. Version management does not display a version for these objects.

Cause and prerequisites

The objects have not been modified in the target system using the correction and transport system. After an import, versions are used only if modifications (versions) already exist in the target system. Keyword: R3SLMODVERS

Solution
After an import, version management uses only versions for objects which also had versions before the import. This is a principle for improving the performance of the system: imported versions already exist in the source system, so you only have to save the local modifications in the target system and keep them as versions. Versions are used in this way and the storage area required for the versions in minimized.
If you have the problem of carrying out a version verification in the target system, for example for revision purposes, you must make sure that the transport system logs are kept on the operating system level. The logs are not deleted by the correction and transport system, only within the system administration on operating sytem level. From the ALOG file, you can find out which transport was successfully carried out into which system. From the transport number, you can find out which source system the transport came from. The object list for the transport contains a reference to the correction which can be used to find the version in the source system.

Additional key words

R3SLMODVERS