Why Change Management? was: IBM Unveils Change Management Software for System i

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Well, this is going off on a tangent (hence the change in subject line) 
but there are several reasons why people want change management purposes.
1 -  Audit of what changed and why.
2 - Last time when we change this we also had to change this, this and 
this.  What were they again?
3 - Automatic promotion to one or more other systems.
4 - Keeping track of options that you can't easily bury in the H spec (if 
RPG) like adopting authority and other like issues.
5 - Conflict resolution.  If I promote this printer file and when it gets 
to one of the production machines I want to find out if someone did a 
CHGPRTF and changed the lines per page or some such thing by simply doing 
CHGPRTF.  Don't just clobber the existing printer file with the new one.
6 - Man that change was fubar.  Automatically back it out.

Rob Berendt