Patent ID: 7877730

Claim:
A method to effect a software service in at least one productive system of a plurality of logical systems of a software system landscape, the plurality of logical systems being interconnected by logical transport paths and each of the plurality of logical systems having associated therewith one of a plurality of system roles, the method comprising: providing, using one or more processors, system role types, each system role being associated to one of the system role types, low-level operational tasks being assigned to the system role types, the system role types including source systems, follow-on systems, and target systems, the follow-on systems including at least one of a training system, a testing system, and a quality assurance system; providing a transport track that defines a route for software services, the route being subsequently through the plurality of logical systems and specifying one source system in which software services are permitted, adjacent interconnected systems, and at least one of the target systems; providing software services between systems of the landscape by forwarding the software service into an input buffer of a system, importing the software service into the system, forwarding the software service into the import buffer of the next system; providing a preliminary software service for fixing a malfunctioning system relating to at least one of the code and the data of at least one productive system; providing an association of tasks to system role types; and generating automatically a hot fix instance from the preliminary software service, the system role types, the association and the transport tracks, the hot fix instance defining tasks for routing the preliminary software service to at least one productive system and for executing the preliminary software service therein.