Self-service deployment with the IBM UrbanCode Deploy Selfserv tool
Use the IBM Sterling® Order Management System self-service process to deploy changes for your IBM Sterling Order Management System service. You must use the IBM® UrbanCode® Deploy Selfserv tool when you need to deploy changes for IBM Sterling Order Management System.
With this tool, you can deploy your custom releases and fixes into your IBM Sterling Order Management System environments without the need to open service requests for IBM to deploy your changes. This self-service process provides you with a best practice approach for deploying changes with minimal to no interaction by users or administrators of the target deployment environment. This approach also minimizes the effort and troubleshooting that is required by you, or your System Integrator, during the deployment process. In addition to deployments, you can also use the tool to complete other tasks for your IBM Sterling Order Management System product service.
The self-service deployment process provides you, or your System Integrator, with the ability to use the IBM UrbanCode Deploy Selfserv tool to deploy packages into each IBM Sterling Order Management System environment. By using the IBM UrbanCode Deploy Selfserv tool, you, or your system integrator, can complete deployment-related tasks and view a consolidation of environment information through the IBM UrbanCode Deploy Selfserv tool user interface. For instance, you can view the current versions of deployed packages, deployment history, server status, audit trails, console logs, and more. You do not need to use any command line commands or implement scripts to complete deployments into your development environment or quality assurance environment.
Available self-service deployment operations
The IBM UrbanCode Deploy Selfserv tool is set up and configured by IBM to enable you to complete specific self-service operations. To complete any of these operations, you do not need to configure any properties file or environment settings file to specify your target IBM Sterling Order Management System environment details.
When you are using the tool, you must select the process, or operation, that you want to run. The processes that are available for you to run are based on the IBM Sterling Order Management System product service application and components that are available for you to access.
Application | Process | Version required | Description |
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IBM Sterling Order Management System | Deploy | Yes | Build and deploy an enterprise archive (EAR) that is based on the specified deployment.jar build artifact. |
Process | Version required | Description | |
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IBM Sterling Order Management System | Build Customized Runtime | Yes | Build a deployable customized version of the runtime component for the IBM Sterling Order Management System based on a deployable package. This customized runtime includes an enterprise archive (EAR) that is based on deployment.jar within the specified deployable package. |
IBM Sterling Order Management System | Update OMS Application | Yes | Deploy a customized runtime component version to update an IBM Sterling Order Management System application. |
Self-service deployment process
The IBM Sterling Order Management System self-service deployment process and IBM UrbanCode Deploy Selfserv tool is built upon IBM UrbanCode Deploy. IBM UrbanCode Deploy is a stand-alone application that provides core deployment services. This application includes an application server, database, workflow engine, security services, deployment agents, and component and application configuration tools. When you use the IBM UrbanCode Deploy Selfserv tool, an agent process runs on your target IBM Sterling Order Management System environment to communicate with the IBM UrbanCode Deploy server.
For more information, see Build and deployment process.