Method for generating a transport track through a software system landscape and computer system with a software system landscape and a transport track

• US 8,839,185 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2005
• Issued: 09/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Demuth, Michael, Schulz, Volker, Stegmuller, Herbert
• Primary Examiner(s): DAO, THUY CHAN
• Application Number:
  US11/262,143
• Publication Number:
  US 20060123392A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,246 Days
• US Class Current: 717/101
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/00 Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks routing or path finding in wireless networks H04W40/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/302 Route determination based on requested QoS

Abstract

A method for generating a transport track for routing transport requests through a software system landscape comprising a central control system and a plurality of logical systems interconnected by logical transport paths, a transport request defining a software service to at least one of the code and the data of a system in the landscape, is described. The method includes selecting a group of systems for a software service project according to a project definition; analyzing in the central system the transport paths between the systems of the group for finding a suitable route through all systems of the group; and generating in the central system a transport track according to the analysis, the transport track defining a route for transport requests through all systems of the group in a particular order, the transport track specifying one source system in which software services are permitted, pairs of adjacent interconnected systems, and at least one target system.

Claims

1. A method to determine a transport track for routing transport requests through a software system landscape comprising a central control system and a plurality of logical systems interconnected by logical transport paths, a transport request defining a software service for customization, adaptation, program or data update of a system to at least one of the code and the data of a system in the landscape, the method comprising:

selecting a group of systems for a software service project according to a project definition;

determining, using one or more computers in the central system a transport track, the transport track defining a route for transport requests through all systems of the group in a particular order, the transport track specifying one source system in which software services are permitted, adjacent interconnected systems, and at least one target system;

defining by the software service project a group of systems for which the software service is required;

analyzing, wholly within the central system, the transport paths between the systems of the group for finding a suitable route through all systems of the group by accessing transport layout information of the software system landscape and project data by the central control system, the transport paths being for the delivery of the software services, the software services being software executables;

analyzing, wholly within the central system, whether further development work is required in a local part to adapt the software service for the local part; and

generating the transport track in the central system in accordance with the analyzing of the transport paths.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating of the transport track comprises generating a sequential list of identifiers for pairs of interconnected systems, the list starting with a pair comprising the source system.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein generating of the transport track comprises generating a sequential list of identifiers for pairs of interconnected systems, the list comprising an entry with pairs that define a branch.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a transport request for the project; and

routing the transport request from the source system through the systems of the group via the transport paths and in the order defined by the transport track.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the central system communicates with the systems of the group of systems to effect the routing according to the transport track.

6. A computer system comprising:

a central control system including one or more computers;

a plurality of logical systems;

logical transport paths that interconnect the logical systems to form a software system landscape, the logical transport paths allowing a transport request to be transported from one system into another system, the transport request defining a software service to at least one of the code and the data of a system in the landscape;

means for selecting a group of systems for a software service project according to a project definition;

means for analyzing, wholly within the central control system, the transport paths between the systems of the group for finding a suitable route through all systems of the group by accessing transport layout information of the software system landscape and project data by the central control system, the transport paths being for delivery of software services, the software services being software executables;

means for analyzing, wholly within the central control system, whether further development work is required in a local part to adapt the software service for the local part; and

means for generating in the central control system a transport track according to the analysis, the transport track defining a route for transport requests through all systems of the group in a particular order, the transport track specifying one source system in which the software services are permitted, adjacent interconnected systems, and at least one target system.

7. The computer system of claim 6, wherein the transport track comprises a sequential list of identifiers for pairs of interconnected systems, the list starting with a pair comprising the source system.

8. The computer system of claim 6, wherein the transport track comprises a sequential list of identifiers for pairs of interconnected systems, the list comprising an entry with pairs that define a branch.

9. The computer system of claim 6, further comprising a transport request for the project;

and means for routing the transport request from the source system through the systems of the group via the transport paths and in the order defined by the transport track.

10. The computer system of claim 6, further comprising means for communication between the central system and the systems of the group of systems to effect the routing according to the transport track.

11. A tangible computer program product comprising on a storage memory, a computer code, the computer program product having no transitory signal components, the computer code that upon execution on a computer system performs a method to determine a transport track for routing transport requests through a software system landscape comprising a central control system and a plurality of logical systems interconnected by logical transport paths, a transport request defining a software service for customization, adaptation, program or data update of a system to at least one of the code and the data of a system in the landscape, the method comprising:

selecting a group of systems for a software service project according to a project definition;

determining, using one or more computers in the central system a transport track, the transport track defining a route for transport requests through all systems of the group in a particular order, the transport track specifying one source system in which software services are permitted, adjacent interconnected systems, and at least one target system;

defining by the software service project a group of systems for which the software service is required;

analyzing, wholly within the central system, the transport paths between the systems of the group for finding a suitable route through all systems of the group by accessing transport layout information of the software system landscape and project data by the central control system, the transport paths being for delivery of the software services, the software services being software executables;

analyzing, wholly within the central system, whether further development work is required in a local part to adapt the software service for the local part; and

generating the transport track in the central system in accordance with the analyzing of the transport paths.

12. A computer system comprising:

a central control system including one or more computers;

a plurality of logical systems;

logical transport paths that interconnect the logical systems to form a software system landscape, the logical transport paths allowing a transport request to be transported from one system into another system, a transport request defining a software service to at least one of the code and the data of a system in the landscape;

a selector to select a group of systems for a software service project according to a project definition;

an analyzer to analyze, wholly within the central control system, the transport paths between the systems of the group to find a suitable route through all systems of the group by accessing transport layout information of the software system landscape and project data by the central control system, the transport paths being for delivery of software services, the software services being software executables, the analyzer further to determine, wholly within the central control system, whether further development work is required in a local part to adapt the software service for the local part; and

a generator to generate in the central system a transport track according to the analysis, the transport track defining a route for transport requests through all systems of the group in a particular order, the transport track specifying one source system in which the software services are permitted, adjacent interconnected systems, and at least one target system.