Re: change management software

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:31 12/2/2003, Cathy McBride wrote:
> We are evaluating change management software for ISeries, and would enjoy
> hearing what products you might be using.  Any info you're willing to share
> will be much much appreciated!

We're using MKS Implementer, currently deploying to 4 different AS400s. It 
handles multiple development and QA environments, has rudimentary 
concurrent development support, does have the ability to work with 
Code400/WDSC, although we're not currently using the integration. It has a 
built-in help desk/project management component, change roll-back from 
archive, although that's a little kludgy imho. It tracks and recompiles 
complex and related objects, can use change commands instead of recompiles 
for database objects, and for us at least, administration is pretty 
minimal. It doesn't really support multi-platform development (Windows & 
Unix), but there's another tie-in package available that does that for 
additional $$. All in all, I like it just fine.


Pete Hall
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