US 2014/0157250 A1Published application

Downtime reduction for integration of customer transport requests into a software architecture update procedure

AssigneeSap SE

InventorsTamara Weckwerth, Stefan Mueller

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Abstract

When customer transport requests are included in an update procedure performed on a customer-customizable business software architecture, versioning of the objects and other features imported via such transport requests can require an extended period of business downtime using conventional methods. Additional downtime can result if the objects of the customer transports are not automatically generated. Consistent with features described herein, versioning can be done for many object types in a second shadow system or instance during uptime. The generation of objects in the customer transports can also done in the second shadow system or instance during uptime.

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Dependent claims

A computer program product comprising a machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a system comprising a programmable processor, cause the system to perform operations comprising:

performing a pre-import versioning of customer-specific transport request objects to be added to a core software platform, the pre-import versioning being performed in an uptime of a shadow system or shadow instance;
importing one or more dictionary objects and one or more non-dictionary repository objects of at least one customer-specific transport request of a set of customer-specific transport requests for a given customer organization, the importing occurring in the uptime of the shadow system or shadow instance;
versioning, during the uptime of the shadow system or shadow instance, the at least one customer-specific transport request objects imported to the shadow system or shadow instance;
importing, during a downtime of the shadow system or shadow instance, at least one remaining customer-specific transport request of the set of customer-specific transport requests;
versioning, during the downtime of the shadow system or shadow instance, one or more objects of the at least one customer-specific transport request imported during the downtime;
and
returning the productive system to the uptime, and providing the productive system for business use.

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A system comprising:

at least one programmable processor;
and
a machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least programmable processor, cause the at least one programmable processor to perform operations comprising:
performing a pre-import versioning of customer-specific transport request objects to be added to a core software platform, the pre-import versioning being performed in an uptime of a shadow system or shadow instance;
importing one or more dictionary objects and one or more non-dictionary repository objects of at least one customer-specific transport request of a set of customer-specific transport requests for a given customer organization, the importing occurring in the uptime of the shadow system or shadow instance;
versioning, during the uptime of the shadow system or shadow instance, the at least one customer-specific transport request objects imported to the shadow system or shadow instance;
importing, during a downtime of the shadow system or shadow instance, at least one remaining customer-specific transport request of the set of customer-specific transport requests;
versioning, during the downtime of the shadow system or shadow instance, one or more objects of the at least one customer-specific transport request imported during the downtime;
and
returning the productive system to the uptime, and providing the productive system for business use.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.