Environments

This topic relates to the following sections:

• Guided Setup

• Parameters

• Servers

• Subject Areas

• Manage Development Areas

• Add a Datasource to a Development Area

• Adding & Editing Datasources

• Subsequent Tasks for Environments

About Environments

This section allows a project to design, build, execute, and store the data within multiple Enviroments to prevent loss of work due to a Mock load as example. By designing multiple environments, the developers may continue to work on fixes and changes to a conversion process while the team holds a Mock conversion. Each environment groups together a set of Development Areas and Report Cache database. These environments are then integrated into the Migration Reporting pages and ETL processing pages.

Environments work in conjunction with Working DB Object Promotion. The tables, views, rules, and stored procedures of a Development Area like WRKFIN as example may be copied into a newly created Development Area assigned to the Environment using the Working DB Object Promotion process to form a new Development Area like WRKFINL

An Environment is used for projects that require multiple migration systems for building and loading. In a project using multiple environments, it would be as example Development and Load. This page contains the data that pertains to each Environment of the Syniti Migrate Application.

Installation of Syniti Migrate provides DEV environment as a default for ETL and Reporting. If the team should require additional environments, they may be added within this page and then linked to a Report Cache Datasource. The client may view by Environment the reports stored within Migration Reports or Deployment Reports.

Note

SAP Data Services ETL provides Substitution Parameters to setup for a DEV and LOAD therefore allowing for one set of datastores with multiple configurations to point to each of the databases. Within SAP Data Services pathway - Tools > Substitution Parameter Configurations , the team can select the defaulted configuration which changes parameters for the Load vs Dev migration runs. Each user also sets up Configurations within each Datastore to point to the DEV or LOAD configuration and database associated with each.

Prerequisites

REPORT Datasources should be created within Datasources prior to updating the Environments page so they may be attached to the Environment. Refer to section Catalog > Datasources > Adding & Editing Datasources for more details of building Datasources of type Report.

Users & Roles for Environments

The Admin is responsible for maintenance of the Environments. This section is stored within Administer and only users granted Admin access maintains this process.

Working in Environments

View the following page by navigating to Administer > Setup > Environments from Syniti Migrate Homepage or access by using the Guided Setup.

The system provides one default Environment.  The DEV or Development Environment is set to Default active. 

The DEVELOPMENT AREAS button provides access to manage development areas.

The Environments grid displays the following fields:

Add an Environment

Additional Environments may be added by a click on the Add   icon.

Environments: Add environment

Enter the Environment field values as shown below:

Note

Each Report Cache Datasource is created by using the wizard stored within the Environment Edit window.  Refer to section  Administer > Setup > Environments > Adding & Editing Report Datasources for detailed information on this process. 

Note

The MIGRATE Datasource is defaulted as part of the system, but to add MIGRATE datasources for LOAD environment and others, refer to section Administer > Setup > Environments > Adding & Editing Migrate Datasources for detailed information on this process.

When finished with edits, click the Save  icon to complete.

Edit an Environment

To edit an existing Environment, click on the Edit   icon to display the Environment details window.

Delete an Environment

To delete an existing Environment, click on the Delete  icon to display the Environment Details page.  Click OK to proceed and remove the environment or click on CANCEL to exit without changing.