Integrate LiveCompare and ChaRM
LiveCompare may be integrated with SAP’s Change Management system (ChaRM). The integration allows a workflow to be called from ChaRM when a change request is moved into a particular state. For example, the integration may work like this:
-
A ChaRM change request is moved into the To Be Tested state, which triggers a LiveCompare ChaRM action in SAP.
-
The ChaRM action invokes a LiveCompare workflow via a REST API call.
-
The workflow runs asynchronously so that it does not affect the performance of ChaRM.
-
It produces a report which is attached to the change request that invoked the workflow.
Additionally, the integration may be configured to allow a workflow to be called manually from a change screen’s Actions menu. The integration works with multiple workflows on multiple LiveCompare servers, triggering multiple ChaRM actions.
One use of the integration is impact analysis. The movement of a change request into a particular state may cause an impact analysis to be performed for the change request’s transports.
In these examples, we will be using the SmartImpact_ChaRM workflow from the Impact Analysis templates folder. The facility to attach a LiveCompare report to a ChaRM document is implemented by the Create Change Request Urls sub workflow, which uses the Create Change Request URLs action.
Before you begin, check that the prerequisites for the SmartImpact_ChaRM workflow are satisfied on the LiveCompare server.