RE: Change management systems

["Wintermute, Sharon" <Sharon.Wintermute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Short term profit and long term loss. Seems to be the norm today. 

Sharon Wintermute

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 8:35 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Change management systems

Pretty much, since the new ownership jacked up the maintenance fees
through
the roof.

I think a bunch of folks who worked there also took a hike.

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 8:21 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Change management systems

Has softlanding dropped off the radar for people?

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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.
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