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Method for tracking transport requests and computer system with trackable transport requests

  • US 20060112189A1
  • Filed: 10/27/2005
  • Published: 05/25/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for retrieving a status in a logical system in a system landscape comprising a central control system and a plurality of the logical systems interconnected by logical paths, the method including:

  • providing a software service for customization, adaptation, program or data update of a system;

    providing a data supplier in the logical system for supplying, to the central system, data supplier information containing information about the status;

    providing a data collector in the central system for obtaining the data supplier information and accordingly updating status data;

    using a transport request consisting of structured data comprising an identifier, general information regarding the service, and service data for providing the software service for a system;

    feeding the transport request into an import buffer of at least one of the logical systems;

    providing data accessed by the data supplier from at least a part of the transport request;

    using the accessed data as part of the status; and

    providing a tracking service in the central system for tracking the transport request, the tracking service allowing to analyze the status data.

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