User TMSADM Keeps Getting Locked Out...

Don't you hate it when you can't refresh your STMS queues without having to enter a username and password for every system, only to inevitably lock your accounts in each system and the TMSADM user as well?

I know I hate it... or at least I did until I found a simple solution:

This actually comes from SAP, only it is not as easy for somebody to find, even if they know where to look.

Most likely you have complex password requirements in your landscape, and the default TMSADM passwords do not meet those requirements.

Just follow this procedure:

The password can be changed only from the domain controller by the Transport Management System (TMS) administrator.
Start the report TMS_UPDATE_PWD_OF_TMSADM in client 000.
On the selection screen, the report offers three different options for changing the TMSADM password:

• Enter your own password.

• Set the standard password

• Reset the password to the original TMSADM standard password (used since Release 3.1I)

           This is the return path if unexpected problems occur when you change the password. This works only if all of the systems still accept the simple password. Otherwise, you must find a suitable password.

The report offers the connection test across all systems and a log display of the changes as additional functions.

After you select one of the password options, you can choose "Execute". The system then requests logons in client 000 of every system of the TMS domain.
The connections to all systems of the landscape are then set up for the entire run of the report.

The report executes three phases:

• Creating test users and test destinations in all systems

• Checking the test users and test destinations

• Setting the required entries in the table TMSCROUTE, changing the TMSADM user accounts and the TMSADM destinations

Errors in phases 1 and 2 cause the report to terminate.
If the first two phases are successful, the system continues with the third phase in all systems without taking the errors into account. The system then displays a log for all actions, which you can display again at any time.

Now your troubles should be gone.

Hope this helps...