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Software logistics standardizes and automates software distribution, maintenance, and testing procedures. Its goal is to establish consistent and solution-wide change management.

Transport and Change Management

Transport and change management enables and guarantees the distribution of software changes from the portal development environment to quality assurance and productive environments. It also provides the general conditions for the administration of customer-specific developments and adjustments within the context of portal content.

  • Transport : In most cases, portal development projects are not executed in production systems. Depending on their scope, they are carried out in one or more development systems. If you carry out your development projects in a development system, you have to transport the development to a target system (a test or production system). You use transport packages to collect newly created and changed portal objects in the respective development system. You transport packages using Change and Transport System for Java (CTS+) or you can export and import them via the file system. For more information, see Transporting Portal Objects .

    Developers can also use the SAP NetWeaver development environment for managing versioning of portal content and transporting portal objects. For more information, see Adding Transport Packages to NWDI .

  • Change Management : The change recording feature of SAP NetWeaver Portal automatically writes changes to portal objects to a change list. The activation of the change list enables the transport of the changed objects to other portal systems. Transport is done using the Change and Transport System for Java (CTS+). For more information, see Managing Change Recording .

Implementation of Support Packages and SAP Notes

SAP ships quality enhancements, program corrections, and updates for SAP NetWeaver in Support Packages. The Support Packages for the portal platform are part of the SAP NetWeaver Support Packages. For details about support packages for SAP NetWeaver, go to SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/sp-stacks .

SAP Notes describe known issues, and their solutions and workarounds. For details of the SAP Notes relevant for portal life-cycle management, go to SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/notes .

Release and Upgrade Management

SAP NetWeaver provides comprehensive upgrade plans that you can use to upgrade your system. You can find information about SAP NetWeaver upgrade plans at service.sap.com/upgrade-nw .

The central document for SAP NetWeaver upgrades is the Upgrade Master Guide . This guide contains links to all the information that you need when performing an upgrade. You can find the Upgrade Master Guide on SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/instguidesNW .