SAP Solution Manager 7.2 · Downgrade Protection & CSOL
What is the CSOL, and what's its relationship to downgrade protection?
The Cross-System Object Lock is downgrade protection's core component, prerequisite, and engine.
It tracks objects in transport requests and raises a conflict when an object is saved into more than one transport targeting the same production system. Supports ABAP development + Customizing objects; all transports must originate from ChaRM/QGM change documents; locks live in SolMan and release once the transport reaches production.
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