Working with changelists

A Changelist is a cohesive unit consisting of a number of related changes that need to be made together.

The process of governing these changes, namespaces, projects , environments, and so forth, is done using the IBM® Business Services Governance Manager. he Governance system manages a queue of changelists before publishing to the IBM® Business Services Repository.

A changelist contains a set of changes to be made to a specific version of the Master Repository. A changelist records two types of changes. One type is typical of any changes made during the course of developing a project. The other type of change is called a Linked Change. A linked change consists of the changes that were indirectly to object instances. An entire changelist is either accepted or rejected — there is no partial acceptance of a changelist.

Note: Linked changes are the changes that have Direct or Indirect Correlation between each other. For example: If you have one Interface and Endpoint associated with it then these two changes go as a one linked change to the IBM Business Services Governance Manager.

Changes made to the meta data instances reflect in the active changelist and on submission to IBM® Business Services Governance Manager for approval they reflect under the Pending Changelists.

Any changelist can be in either the active or pending state.

Active changelist

All changes that are made to any object, reflects in the Repository Changes view under the Active Changelists, even if they have errors associated and irrespective of the fact that they cannot be submitted to Governance.

Pending changelist

A changelist is said to be Pending when it is queued in IBM Business Services Governance Manager

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