Aldon's CMS product is pretty good, as well
www.aldon.com
Paul Nelson
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 7:51 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Change management systems
David
CMS can be a very general term - we are speaking of software change
management here. There is also something called project change
management, which is different.
I suggest looking at a couple of the product sites.
www.arcadsoftware.com or www.mks.com (David's company) or www.thenon.net
(See-change - someone recommended it here recently) and look for their
reasons.
The iSeries has a lot of dependencies between object types. Rob
mentioned a change in a PRTF. What impact does a change to a physical
file have - how many logical files and programs need to be recompiled?
What happens when 2 or more developers work on the same source? How do
you find source from an earlier version, in case you made a mistake? Or
say that you accidentally deleted some source member? All this can
happen, and a CMS can help rescue you from these problems.
It might be enough to do a checkout - checkin process - TAATOOLS has
one, I believe, that works well for one of our customers. (www.taatools.com)
HTH
Vern
David FOXWELL wrote:
Hi,
As we are looking at the possibility of revamping our homegrown
installation utility, I'd like to know more about CMS. I never even heard of
CMS before subscribing to this list. I was wondering what I am missing. Is
it really that complicated to write a utility that takes care of the
development installation and everything that is impacted by it? How might we
benefit from buying a CMS?
Thanks.
midrange.com
