How to remove an Endevor stage from the life cycle

Products

• Endevor

Issue/Introduction

Currently have an environment with the following stages: DEV and QA and it is required to delete the stage QA as it is no longer used. 

What are the steps and considerations to perform this removal? 

There are 600 systems in our Endevor environments so is it possible to do this removal not for all systems at the same time?

Resolution

Removal of a Stage requires updating the C1DEFLTS so it will effect all Systems at the same time.

 

Note:   

The exit stage for an environment must *always*  be Stage 2.

The entry point into the next environment can be Stage 1 or Stage 2.

 

Therefore, in this scenario the DEV stage must be moved from stage 1 to stage 2 of Environment. 

 

 

1)  All elements must be moved out of both stages in the Environment  - There can be absolutely no elements in either stage.  If everything is not moved out of Environment, it will result in Element Catalog corruption issues and Footprint problems. 

 

 

2) After all elements have been moved out of the Environment:

2.1)  Back up Endevor

 

2.2)  Update the C1DEFLTS to change the ENTRYSTG# for the Environment from 1 to 2.

 

2.3)  Update the C1DEFLTS to change the Stage information - BELOW IS THE THE CURRENT STAGE INFORMATION 

Stage 1 Name............DEV   
Stage 1 Title...........DEV STAGE 1
Stage 1 Dataset.........ENDEVOR.DEV.MCF 
Stage 2 Name............QA   
Stage 2 Title...........QA STAGE 2
Stage 2 Dataset.........ENDEVOR.QA.MCF

Update the Stage 2 Name and Title to be:  DEV and "Dev Stage 2" and the name of the MCF dataset to  ENDEVOR.DEV.MCF.

 

Then give Stage 1 a new name, Title and MCF file or just use the INTE stage info.  Most people like to identify that it is an unused stage just like  -

Stage 1 Name............NULL               
Stage 1 Title...........STAGE INACTIVE
Stage 1 Dataset.........ENDEVOR.NULL.MCF   
Stage 2 Name............DEV   
Stage 2 Title...........DEV STAGE 2
Stage 2 Dataset.........ENDEVOR.DEV.MCF 

 

3)  Reassemble and link the C1DEFLTS and start using the new configuration.