Map of Release Functions

The previous topic in the chapter told you how to navigate to the Release List. This topic will help you navigate from the Release List panel to the function you want to perform for a release.

This list shows the hierarchy of functions that developer, approvers, managers, and other use to work with releases. Functions are listed in approximate release, area, and package life cycle order.

7 Release - Extended Release Management

Query release facility categories (QR)
Query release components (QC)Test release components (TR)
Block release (BK)
Block release with batch job (BB)
Unblock release (UB)
Approve release (AP)
Backout release (BO)
Revert release (RV)
Release Integrity(RI)
View release backout reasons (RB)
View release approver reject reasons (RJ)
View Release Libraries (RL)
View release revert reasons (RR)
Area Functions (AR)
    Query release area facility categories (QA)
    Query area components (QC) 
    Notify area check-in approvers (NI)
    Approve area check-in (AI)
    Reset area check-in approvals (RI)
    Check-in area components (CI)
    Retrieve area components (RT)
    Promote area components (PA)
    Demote area components (DA)
    Audit area (AU)
    Test area components (TA)
    Block area (BK)
    Unblock area (UB)
    Notify area check-off approvers (NO)
    Approve area check-off (AO)
    View area approver reject reasons (RJ)
    Reset/Query Area Component Locks - Delete (DL) or query (QC) area component level locks (CL)
    Area Integrity Check (IC)
    Promotion History (PH)
Package Functions (PK)
    Query package information (QP)
    Update package control information (U1)
    Update package description (U2)
    Update package installation instructions (U3)
    Update package site information and install date (U7)
    Check out components from baseline/promotion (C1)
    Check out components using component list copied forward (C2)
    Check out components from release (C3)
    Stage components from an external dataset (S1)
    Stage components already in package (S2)
    Specify parameters to select a subset of package components (S3)
    Recompile source code from baseline/promotion libraries (RC)
    Relink load module (RL)
    Browse compressed listing (BL)
    Promote package (base ZMF function) (BP)
    Demote package (base ZMF function) (BD)
    Promote package components in area library (PM)
    Demote package components in area library (DM)

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    Audit package (AP)
    Freeze package online (F1)
    Freeze package with batch job (F2)
    Selectively unfreeze or refreeze package components (F3)
    Reset Freeze-In-Progress indicator (F4)
    Approve/Reject package (A1)
    Display package approver reject reasons (A2)
    Re-submit installation JCL build request for package in APR status (A5)
    Revert package back to development status (RV)
    Check-in package contents to starting area (CI)
    Retrieve package components from area (RP)
    Retrieve package components from area with batch job (RB)
    Detach package from release (DP)
    Query package components in release areas (QC)
    Browse baseline (BB) 
    Compare staging to Baseline or Promotion(CC)
    Resubmit install JCL build request(F5)
    Online Forms(OF)
    Package Integrity Check(PI)
    Promotion History(PH)
    Reports(RT
    Scan Baseline(SC)
    Rename/Scratch (package)(UA)
    Rename/Scratch (baseline)(UB)
    Update DB2 information(UD)
    Update user information(UE)
    Update IMS information(UI)
    Update Scheduler(U4)
    Compress package libraries(ZP)