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The last regularly scheduled transport release to Production will take place on Thursday, October 1218, 2017. Development in SF2 will be allowed through Friday, October 1319, 2017 after which a freeze of non-critical transports to SH1 SH2 and Production will be in effect until after the Support Pack Project Go Live date. The normal Production transport import schedule will resume on Thursday, December 1413, 20172018. Migrations to the Test environments (SH1 - PreSP QA) and Production will be limited to critical fixes that need to be moved to Production as soon as possible before the project go-live date. Starting on October 1622, a special transport procedure will be enforced for changes to SAP. This section explains the approval process. It lists the necessary approvals and documentation, and what steps you need to take in ZUTTREQ. Questions about this process should be directed to Eping (Lucia) Wei, Transport Coordinator, at lma@mit.edu or 617-253-0231.
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For the duration of the development freeze (10/1619/20172018-12/1312/20172018), a special process will be used for development of fixes to SAP. The aim of this process is to avoid the introduction of non-support pack changes into the Support Pack test system (SH2) or the Production system (PS1).
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