The Comparison Process Creates Root Objects

When you submit the batch control defined on the DB process, "root objects" are created. A root object is a record that a difference exists between a maintenance object in the source environment and the target environment.

This diagram shows the state transition of root objects:

• Both the Initial and Pending states are transitory and should not be visible to end-users.
• The comparison background process puts root objects into either the Approved or Rejected state. You control the value by populate the parameters on the background process accordingly.
• You can manually change a Rejected root object to Approved (and vice versa).
• When you are ready to commit the changes to the target environment, run the apply changes ( CL-APPCH ) background process. This process only processes Approved root object. When a root object is processed, its status is changed to Complete if no problems are encountered (i.e., the change is committed on the target environment). The status of the root object is changed to Error if problems are encountered (e.g., validation fails).
• You can transition an Error object back to the Approved state if you want to reattempt applying the change to the target environment (you must resubmit the Apply Changes ( CL-APPCH ) background process to do this).
• You can transition an Error object to the Rejected state if you want to acknowledge that the change should not be applied to the target environment.