Change Request Management (ChaRM)

How do email notifications work in ChaRM, and what are they used for?

What must be done before configuring ChaRM?

What can you do in a ChaRM Attachments block, and what does the Advanced button add?

How does ChaRM control the release of the original transport request?

How do you triage which ChaRM transaction type to use for a given change?

What is the Release cycle (SMRE) used for?

How does ChaRM's Approval Management reduce unauthorized-change risk, and where is it available out of the box?

Which cycle does an Urgent change (SMHF) use, and why shouldn't routine maintenance be approved as urgent?

What is a General change (SMCG) for, and what's unique about it?

What happens when you turn on the CTS status switch in ChaRM?

Why must you never operate on a standard ChaRM transaction type directly, and what do you do instead?

What are the four log layers in ChaRM?

What is the Continual cycle (SMAI) for, and which change type can't use it?

ChaRM disables some TMS activities, but what gap remains for normal changes, and how do you close it?

What is the Phase cycle (SMIM), and how are its changes transported?

What's the difference between the SAP0 and SAP1 task-list import strategies?

What are ChaRM's six processes / transaction types?

What happens when a tester clicks 'Confirm Successful Test' on a normal change, and when can it reach production?

How does Text Management record information in ChaRM, and what gets logged automatically?

How did ChaRM's architecture change in 7.2 versus the 7.0/7.1 project+solution model?

What do production, maintenance, and development branches mean in a change control landscape?

What is a Defect correction (SMTM), and why doesn't it need its own approval or new RfC?

How does ChaRM integrate with ITSM, Test Management, and SAP PPM across the ALM?

What are ChaRM's standard roles?

How do branches and change control landscapes differ as the two dimensions of defining a release track?

What is the administration cockpit, and which 7.1 transactions does it replace?

What three new cycle transactions replaced the old maintenance + project cycles in 7.2?

What is an LCG (Logical Component Group), and what systems does it contain?

What is an Administrative change (SMAD), and what makes it different from transport-based changes?

What three prerequisite checks does the ChaRM task-list guided process run before activating a track, and why must all checks be green (not just warnings)?

What's the difference between 'Pass Urgent Change to Test' and 'Pass Normal Change to Test'?

What's the difference between a user text template and a system text template in ChaRM?

After 'Confirm Successful Test', how does the released transport reach the production import queue?

What happens to an RfC when the change approval board rejects it?

What is a change cycle in CCM, and what does it bind to when activated?

What does Time Recording capture in ChaRM, and what must you set up first?

The auto-copy tool misses two things when copying transaction types — what must you fix manually?

What does Multilevel Categorization let you do, and why does each level depend on the one above?

How does the production buffer work for an urgent change?

What is the ChaRM Web Client UI built on, and what do end users do there?

What does ChaRM provide, and what two things does it combine?

What does SOLMAN_WORKCENTER open in 7.2 instead of the old Web Dynpro ABAP transactions?

What are the key technical differences between an urgent change and a normal change?

What is a Preliminary Import, and what's the typical use case?

What's the normal-change flow from 'In Development' to passing it to test?

Why can't a Normal change (SMMJ) use the continual cycle, and which cycles must it use?

What does each phase of a phase cycle technically mean?

After deployment, what are the two options for a phase cycle, and when do you choose each?

What is a Request for Change (SMCR), and why is it 'change-based' rather than 'transport-based'?