Approve the change package

On the edit panel for the change package:

  1. Select the TOURDT migration scheme.
  2. Ready the change package. (If it is still ready from earlier in the tour, then attempting to mark it as ready will have no effect.)

    Notice that the ready panel for the change package reports the "scheme status" as "…, no approvals applied". The "scheme status" is the status of the change package for this migration scheme.

    Before applying approvals, let us attempt to migrate the change package without approval.

  3. Try to migrate the change package: this should fail with the message "package not approved".
  4. Select the Approve command.

    The approve processing panel appears.

  5. Select the Approve processing option with the approver role APPDEV.
  6. Select foreground execution.
  7. Press Enter.

    The panel shows the message "Command successful", and the scheme status shows "Ready, partly approved":

    Figure 1. Guided tour: Approving a change package
       File  Menu  Settings  Help 
     ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
     Approve                    Change Package TOURPKG           Command successful 
     Command ===>                                                                  
     
     Name  . . . . . : TOURPKG  
     Description . . : Guided Tour Change Package                         
     Scheme name . . : TOURDT   
     Scheme status . : Ready, partly approved                             
     
     Choose a processing option and press Enter
     1  1. Approve     Approve the change package for role  . . . . APPDEV    +
        2. Disapprove  Disapprove the change package for role . . .           +
        3. List        List the approve-candidate CICS resources
     
     Execution mode           Enter "/" to select option
     1  1. Foreground            Edit JCL before user submit
        2. Batch             
     
     Summary of approvers                                                           
       Approver role:   PROJMAN     QATEAM      APPDEV     
       Approved by:     <required>  <required>  CICSUSER   
     
     
     

    Notice that the summary at the bottom of the panel shows your user ID under APPDEV.

    What happens if a candidate is edited?

    Suppose that someone now edited one of the candidate resource definitions in the change package. Subsequent attempts to approve this change package would fail, because CICS® Configuration Manager detects that the candidate has changed. You need to either:

    • Undo the edit to the candidate, if you did not want it to be migrated. After undoing the edit, any existing approvals are preserved, and you can continue adding approvals, as before.

      or

    • Ready the change package again, if you wanted the edit to be migrated. This removes any existing approvals for the change package.
  8. Repeat the approval for the other two approver roles, QATEAM and PROJMAN.

    After approval by all three approver roles, the scheme status shows "Ready, fully approved".

    You can now migrate the change package.


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