Scenarios 2+ and 3: Step 10 – Approving a Transport into the Production System 

Use

This step is used for quality assurance for your software component. Once the application has been tested successfully in the test system, a quality manager can approve the software component for transport into the production system.

Prerequisites

You are in the Transport Studio of the Change Management Service (CMS).

You have imported the new version of the software component into the test system and tested it there.

Procedure

Choose the Approval tab page. The version of the software component has the status Waiting for approval in the approval queue. In the Label column, you see the patch level you created when you assembled the software component version.

After you create your software component version for the first time, the patch level is 0.

Select the software component and choose Confirm. The status of the software component changes to Approved. The software component is placed in the import queue of the production system.

Result

You have approved the transport of a new software component into the production system.

Continue with Step 11 – Importing an Application into the Production System.