Description

Simple command line interface to handle basic change management related actions in SAP Solution Manager or with CTS via ODATA requests. The client is intended to be used in continuous integration and continuous delivery scenarios and supports only the actions necessary within those scenarios. See section Usage for more details.

Requirements

SAP Solution Manager Functionality

• SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP6, SP7 -> cm_client v1.x
• SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP 8 and higher -> cm_client v2.0

CTS+ without SAP Solution Manager

AS ABAP Version	Service Pack
7.50	> SP08
7.51	> SP07
7.52	> SP03

• SAPUI 7.53

General Requirements

• JDK 8 to build this project (to run the client JRE 8 is sufficient) OR
• a Docker environment to run the Docker image

Download and Installation

This command line client can be consumed either as a Java application from maven.org or as a Docker image from hub.docker.com.

Installation from maven.org

• Download the command line interface package from maven.org

• Extract the command line interface package into suitable folder

  Example:

     CM_VERSION=2.0.1
     mkdir cm_client
     curl "http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/sap/devops/cmclient/dist.cli/${CM_VERSION}/dist.cli-${CM_VERSION}.tar.gz"  \
     |tar -C cm_client -xvf -
     cm_client/bin/cmclient --version
     cm_client/bin/cmclient --help
  

Usage of the CLI

<CMD> [COMMON_OPTIONS...] <subcommand> [SUBCOMMAND_OPTIONS] <parameters...>

To pass additional Java options to the command (for example, another truststore), set the environment variable CMCLIENT_OPTS

Option	Description
-t, --backend-type	SOLMAN or CTS
-e, --endpoint <arg>	Service endpoint
-h, --help	Prints this help.
-p, --password <arg>	Service password, if '-' is provided, password will be read from stdin.
-u, --user <arg>	Service user.
-v, --version	Prints the version.

Subcommand	Backend Type	Description
create-transport	SOLMAN	Creates a new transport entity.
get-transport-description	SOLMAN	Returns the description of the transport.
get-transport-owner	SOLMAN	Returns the owner of the transport.
get-transports	SOLMAN	Returns the IDs of the transports.
is-change-in-development	SOLMAN	Returns 'true' if the change is in development.
is-transport-modifiable	SOLMAN	Returns 'true' if the transport is modifiable.
release-transport	SOLMAN	Releases the transport.
upload-file-to-transport	SOLMAN	Uploads a file to a transport.
get-transport-development-system	SOLMAN	Returns the target system of the transport.
create-transport	CTS	Creates a new transport entity.
export-transport	CTS	Exports a transport entity.
get-transport-description	CTS	Returns the description of the transport.
get-transport-owner	CTS	Returns the owner of the transport.
get-transport-status	CTS	Returns the status of the transport.
get-transport-target-system	CTS	Returns the target system of the transport.
get-transport-type	CTS	Returns the type of the transport.
import-transport	CTS	Imports a transport entity.
is-transport-modifiable	CTS	Returns 'true' if the transport is modifiable.
upload-file-to-transport	CTS	Uploads a file to a transport.

For more information about subcommands and subcommand options run <CMD> <subcommand> --help.

How to obtain support

Feel free to open new issues for feature requests, bugs or general feedback on the GitHub issues page of this project.

Contributing

Read and understand our contribution guidelines before opening a pull request.

License

Copyright (c) 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. This file is licensed under the Apache Software License, v. 2 except as noted otherwise in the LICENSE file.

Release Notes

The release notes are available here.