RE: Software Vendors (And US too) - A small rant

Luis,

A proper change management system will eliminate the need to recompile on
the production machine. David will need to speak for his product, but with
Aldon, the only source that gets deployed is for recompiling logical files
and some of the SQL stuff, along with thinks like FTP scripts and source
code for the occasional FMTDTA sorts one finds in older packages.

The logical file source only gets deployed to ensure that the logical gets
compiled over the right physical. Aldon does not require that the library
name on the development box is the same as on the production box.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis Rodriguez
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 8:27 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Software Vendors (And US too) - A small rant

Bob,

In many shops is normal to compile your source code again in the production
environment, although it has already been tested (and compiled) in your
development and/or test (QA- Quality Assurance) instances. When yo go from,
say QA to production, you only transport the source code. Why? Because in
the new environment could be some differences regarding file levels, PTFs,
LIC levels, whatever... That's one of the reasons you usually must keep
some close tabs in any new (or updated) program that has been ported to a
production environment.


Regards,
Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5 iSeries