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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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