Re: Change management Software

Brad I strongly dissagree. I was a consultant for 7 years in many accounts.
I never had access to a cms product but I and my co-consultants had strict
procedures on turning over source and objects to a production environment.
But I spent a lot of time setting up test environments and writing programs
to turnover projects.A CMS system such as Aldon CMS is a great time saving
and organizing tool. I don't know if  I could function without it. I now
work in house with several programmers. Three years ago you could find as
many as 9 different sources that had the same name as 1 object and the
object did not point back to the correct source, because source was copied
from 1 place to another and then the source member was removed from the
original srcpf. This was a maintenance nightmare. It made setting up the CMS
much more difficult. But once that was accomplished. Its been smooth sailing
since. The CMS forces developers to work within the enviroment that an
administartor sets forth and that alleviates other problems that arise in
the full life cycle of a project.  There are also many more benefits of a
Change Management system.

Wayne Achenbaum
Slomins Inc.

----- Original Message -----
From: Stone, Brad V (TC) <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 8:42 AM
Subject: RE: Change management Software


> I would first look VERY closely at why you need a CMS.  We were forced to
> get one and it's like it tries and gets you to forget PDM.  Some things
are
> the same, but others are very different.  Renaming source members,
objects,
> etc... those are a couple things that you can't seem to do.  Emergency
> changes... well, they have emergency check out featurs, but unless you
> implement them correctly, they don't always work and they really slow you
> down.
>
> Personally, I don't care for them.  they make working harder when, if your
> shop isn't over 20 people or so, something a little communication would do
> better.
>
> Brad
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kitti.tha@bbl.co.th [mailto:kitti.tha@bbl.co.th]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 11:19 PM
> > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Change management Software
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm looking for Change Management Software on AS/400.  I have
> > one named "Aldon".
> > Any suggestion?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
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