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The last regularly scheduled transport release to Production will take place on Thursday, October 1015, 20192020. Development in SF2 will be allowed through Wednesday, October 1621, 2019 2020 at 5pm after which a restricted window of non-critical transports to 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 Wednesday, November 27December 9, 20192020. 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 16 21 at 5pm, 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 Elda Prudden, Transport Coordinator, at eprudden@mit.edu or 617-253-5153.
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For the duration of the restricted development window (10/1621/20192020-1112/2709/20192020), 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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On November 25, 2019 December 7, 2020, SAP system SH2 will be opened for normal testing activities to all IS&T SAP support personnel and business owners. The normal QA procedures (documents in the review folders, all business owner approvals captured, RT tickets updated) will resume at that time as well. All changes approved on or after November 25December 7, 2019 2020 will be considered part of the November 27December 9, 2019 2020 transport cycle.
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