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Use

During development, you can decide that you want your track to be used only for specific types of development. For example, if you know that your application is used only for pure Java development, you can create a track that supports only Java development. You can then exclude all the other standard software components (SCs) provided by default in a standard track. This allows you to have a simpler development landscape. You can perform this track setup using the SAP NetWeaver Administrator's Configuration Wizard.

Prerequisites

  1. If you want to use Change Management Service (CMS) of NWDI, you need permissions to create and maintain tracks.

  2. You have a valid location that contains the required Software Component Archive (SCA) files for your desired type of development.

  3. You work in the SAP NetWeaver Administrator. To do that in your browser, navigate to http://<host>:<port>/nwa .

Procedure

Creating Tracks for Specific Development Types

  1. Log on to the SAP NetWeaver Administrator. Open the Start of the navigation path Configuration Next navigation step Scenarios End of the navigation path tab page and choose Configuration Wizard .

  2. Under the Configuration Tasks list, choose the DI Change Management Service (CMS): Create an Application Skeleton task.

  3. Choose Start and follow the steps of the wizard.

  4. In the Software Component step, you can specify a specific type of development that you want to be performed inside the track. You can choose to create tracks for J2EE, Web Dynpro, Portal, CAF, Composite, Business Process Management applications, and other types of development.

  5. Set the Enhancement Package number.

    To reflect SAP's Enhancement Package strategy in the configuration of track templates, it was necessary to introduce an additional input parameter. During the configuration of a software component you need to specify certain required relations for the build time so that the central build environment can do its work. The build environment depends on the release of the build archives. This means that all archives imported into the build environment need to have the same release; otherwise, the build will break. Therefore it is necessary to add this release information to the required software components of the track. Since the release number is derived from the Enhancement Package of the major release, the input in the Enhancement Package field adds this variable information. Leaving the default 0 in the enhancement package field will therefore result in a required software component release 7.10 , while an entry of 1 will result in release 7.11 .

  6. Complete the wizard.

Note

For more information about the dependant SCs used for each type of development, see SAP Note 1080927 Information published on SAP site and 1457908 Information published on SAP site.

Creating Tracks for SC Modifications

If you want to create tracks in the Change Management Service (CMS) to modify existing software components delivered by SAP (or by a third-party vendor), such as SAP ESS/XSS, SAP CRM or composite applications, proceed as follows:

  1. Log on to the SAP NetWeaver Administrator. Open the Start of the navigation path Configuration Next navigation step Scenarios End of the navigation path tab page and choose Configuration Wizard .

  2. Under the Configuration Tasks list, choose DI Change Management Service (CMS): Modify a Software Component task.

  3. Choose Start and follow the steps of the wizard.