Re: Change Control

Hector -
I can only speak for my experiences in the midrange world.

I've worked for 6 companies that program on IBM equipment and 1 company that
programmed on Unix (VMS).
The size of the departments using IBM I was in ranged from 2 developers to 8
developers - all fairly small shops.  None of them used any kind of change
management or source control.  The VMS shop had 30+ developers - they used
PCVS and a home-grown package.

I've been on a quest on here and other newsgroups and other listserves
trying to find an affordable solution to control source revisions (package
wide), change management (source-by-source level), and revision
documentation.  So far, most packages are either WAY too expensive or
they're lacking in documenting changes.

If you find something - PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE give me a yell.

Thanks in advance -
David Schopp
WISDM Team Leader
Computers Unlimited
2407 Montana Ave
Billings, MT  59101
v:406.255.9500
f:406.255.9693



"Hector Sanchez" <hsanchez@driscollchildrens.org> wrote in message
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I work for a Children's Hospital in South Texas.  We are a pretty small shop
as far as the AS/400 goes.  3 programmers and 2 operators.  I used to work
for our Electric Utility and in a much bigger shop.  None of the
Programmers/Analyst had Security Rights to Change Live Objects, Source Code
or Files.  Everything was done in Test and we had someone in charge of
Change Control to move everything over once we got the proper signatures.

Recently we had an I/S audit and the auditors are requiring us to use some
form of Change Control.  The other 2 programmers are very much against this
and so far we have avoided doing such.  So my question is this, are most 400
shops small and dont do Change Control, or are we unique in not doing so?

Hector Sanchez




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