Update Set sys_ids: What Actually Happens When You Move Them Between Instances
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May 28, 2026
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You've built a #ReleaseOps pipeline and want to run an Instance Scan against freshly committed update sets in TEST as a quality gate. You wire it up, point it at TEST, feed it the sys_ids from the deployment request — and it fails. The update sets can't be found
The sys_ids you have are from DEV. And on TEST, those sys_ids simply don't exist.
This is a well-known gotcha in ReleaseOps pipelines. Here's what's actually happening — and how to fix it.
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