Hi Sanjai
1. No need to run those programs if it is working fine
2. For the transport issue, you need to be very careful.
assume you have 10 validation steps in Dev. Quality has only 8.
now you add 11th step in Dev, and want to move to Q and Prd before Steps 9,10
in this case, you must delete steps 9,10 in dev first. Generate a TR and release it. Then add back the steps 9,10 removed by you earlier
basically it will transport everything from dev. So make sure you have only the required ones while you create a TR
Ajay