Re: Change Management System addendum

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From: Wayne Achenbaum <wache@slomins.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: Change Management System



       I must say that after posting this message, I was informed by Aldon's
President that the Response Manager will be fully integrated with CMS in the
future Releases. I also was told by the same source that version 6.2 of CMS
will be rid of all ILE conversion related bugs. This required a major change
to their CMS database and they realized a lot of clients needed this so thay
are putting a lot of there efforts in this direction (I hope the release
comes out promptly). Thats it for now. I hope this helps as far as making an
informed decicsion on which Change management System to select.

>I feel I must put my 2 cents in. I can only comment on Aldon's CMS. I
>implemented and currently Administate Aldon's CMS. The interface is very
>nice and consistent.The product is extremely immature as far as converting
>RPG's to ILE they really missed the bus on this one. I had reported a bunch
>of short comings (bugs) in this area.  The response I received when
>reporting these bugs was that since there were work arounds (changing where
>I wanted to store my RPG ILE members and increasing the size of alll my
>current  RPG source physical files so they could accomodate OPM and ILE
>source) they would not be fixing these bugs in the next 2 releases. Which
>for my shop is way to little to late. I am forced to change the way I am
>storing my source so there product will work for ILE conversion. On a
better
>note they are in the process of addressing this issue only because of a new
>product (code named TAMALPAIS) that is a client server application which is
>a CMS for a PC databases as well and will be integrated with the AS400 CMS.
>That product looked really impressive. Also another note is do not buy
>Respone manager as they originally marketed as a product that seemlisly
>interfaces to CMS to collect and log program requests and create projects
>from (not true at all). They are giving up on that. The future for them is
>to use Lotus Notes log Problems and create projects in CMS from that. I
>haven't seen the Beta's yet, if they exist. I do not know if it will
>actually truly cooperate with CMS project creation or maintenance. Overall
>the product works well for us especially the distribution end. which was
>currently overhaulled for functionality in version 6.1.  Like the other
>products there are some quirky bugs here and there and some short comings,
>but over all I give it a thumbs up.
>
>
>Wayne Achenbaum
>Slomin's Inc.
>
>>We are evaluating the change management software packages from SoftLanding
>>and Aldons, I would like to hear comments, good and bad, about these
>>products.
>
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