RE: JBA ML - Other-Worldly upgrade

Our Sys21 setup is in environments also (Blank (Vanilla JBA), Test (with our
test mod libraries on top of JBA test libraries), and production (with our
production mod libraries on top of JBA production libraries).  This has
worked great for us performing 3 major PTF upgrades.  We have also combined
all of our libraries so that we have a production files library, production
program objects library and production source library (I hated dealing with
all the library lists), so every applications library list is the same.

Darrell Watercott
Gold'n Plump Poultry
dwatercott@goldnplump.com

-----Original Message-----
From: bcloss@pfda.com [mailto:bcloss@pfda.com]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:23 PM
To: jbausers-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: JBA ML - Other-Worldly upgrade


My company has Sys21 installed into environments (Test, Blank, and
Production).  This works great without the risks of a "world" concept and
allows us to test out uplifts without impacting production.  We can do
anything in test without having to affect production and feel confident that
the results will be the same.  If we run into a problem, we can take the
production data over to test and replecate the issue.

We paid Geac to set this up for us as we were told that our original
implementation by JBA was non-standard.  Does any one else have experience
with "environments" and would like to comment?
This may be an approach that you could use to go through the upgrading
(which we had to do for Y2K) you mentioned.

-----Original Message-----
From: Johnson, Wayne [mailto:wjohnson@aetna-ind.com]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:55 AM
To: 'jbausers-l@midrange.com'
Subject: JBA ML - Other-Worldly upgrade


Greetings!
I am a system21 newbie who is about to have a huge learning experience.
Having just started at my current company, I have been given the task of
taking the company's software through what looks like several revisions
(uplifts? upgrades?). To make things more interesting, I am supposed to
install these upgrades to a set of libraries which duplicates our production
libraries. I am told that this duplicate set of libraries is called a
"World" by the Geac folks and I have reviewed a document describing the
creation of this "world".

Does any of this sound familiar to the list members? I am looking for
comments, suggestions, warnings, and any other information to help me reduce
the number of pitfalls in this process.

Thanks in advance,

Wayne Johnson
Programmer Analyst
Aetna Industries
wjohnson@aetna-ind.com
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