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		<Title xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> ERP LN software environment</Title>
		<Keyword ContextSensitive="No"><Level1>Version and release management</Level1>
			<Level2>software environment</Level2>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword ContextSensitive="No"><Level1>software environment</Level1>
		</Keyword>
	</Header>
	<AimSection><Paragraph class="Default">To create specific software environments, you can use <Link href="/baanerp/tt/glossary/glossary#000000000000012" role="glossary" Update="No">package combinations</Link>.</Paragraph>
		<List><ListIntro>A software environment consists of the following:</ListIntro>
			<ListItem>A package combination</ListItem>
			<ListItem>At least one company</ListItem>
		</List>
		<Paragraph class="Default">You can create a special package combination to customize software components or to create new software components.</Paragraph>
	</AimSection>
	<GeneralSection><Paragraph class="Default">The following table lists the possible software environments in ERP LN:</Paragraph>
		<TABLE border="1" borderstyle="default" space-and-orientation="indented-estimated"><THEAD><TR><TD width="251" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Software environment</TD>
					<TD width="725" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Description</TD>
				</TR>
			</THEAD>
			<TBODY><TR><TD width="251" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Standard environment</TD>
					<TD width="725" rowspan="1" colspan="1">A package combination that contains the standard version of all ERP LN packages.</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR><TD width="251" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Runtime environment</TD>
					<TD width="725" rowspan="1" colspan="1">A package combination that contains the package VRCs that normal users use at runtime.</TD>
				</TR>
				<TR><TD width="251" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Development environment</TD>
					<TD width="725" rowspan="1" colspan="1">A package combination that contains package VRCs in which developers can create customizations.</TD>
				</TR>
			</TBODY>
		</TABLE>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Standard environment</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph class="Default">The standard environment contains the standard software of all ERP LN package VRCs of all ERP LN packages. You can use the standard environment to compare customized software with standard software.</Paragraph>
			<Figure space-and-orientation="indented-estimated"><FigIntro>The following figure shows an example of the standard environment.</FigIntro>
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			</Figure>
			<Paragraph class="Default">This figure shows an example of a user who is linked to a specific package combination. Use the <Link href="/baanerp/tt/ams/ttams1100s000" role="session">User Data (ttams1100s000)</Link> details session to link the user to a package combination. For more information, refer to “To Create ERP LN users,” in the “User Management” section.</Paragraph>
		</GeneralSection>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Runtime environment</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph class="Default">A runtime package combination can contain some package VRCs that are derived from standard package VRCs. However, not all packages in the package combination have to have the same package VRC. If no customizations exist for a certain package, the standard VRC of this package is used in the run-time package combination. For example, the Service and Maintenance package (tsB60_a) in the following figure is not customized. The other packages are customized and for these the derived package VRC is used in the package combination.</Paragraph>
			<Paragraph class="Default">To specify that the package combination is customer defined, make sure you add not only the customer extension (cus) but also the extension O. This letter indicates that the package combination is the customer’s own.</Paragraph>
			<Figure space-and-orientation="indented-estimated"><FigIntro>The following figure shows an example of a runtime environment.</FigIntro>
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			</Figure>
		</GeneralSection>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Development environment</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph class="Default">As in the run-time environment, a package combination in a development environment contains package VRCs that are derived from standard package VRCs. Also, not all packages in the package combination must have the same package VRC. If no customizations exist for a certain package, the standard VRC of this package is used in the run-time package combination.</Paragraph>
			<Paragraph class="Default">Developers use a development environment to develop new software components or to change existing components.</Paragraph>
			<Figure space-and-orientation="indented-estimated"><FigIntro>The following figure shows an example of a development environment:</FigIntro>
				<HTML:IMG width="448" height="230" SRC="../images/tr_graph_vrm_software_environmentc.gif" path="/enterpriseserver/tools/tt/onlinemanual" btb-count="1" btb-count2="1" btb-image-name="tr_graph_vrm_software_environmentc.gif" btb-source-path="C:\SVN\docnl\Technology\EnterpriseServer~8.5\EnterpriseServer" btb-image-path="/enterpriseserver/tools/tt/images/tr_graph_vrm_software_environmentc.gif" ID="IDADKYBC" alt="[...]" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><FigCaption>The development environment</FigCaption>
			</Figure>
			<Paragraph class="Default">The name of this package combination, such as the previous one, contains the character O. In this case, the customer extension is replaced by the extension dev, which stands for development.</Paragraph>
		</GeneralSection>
	</GeneralSection>
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