RE: ACMS Aldon

["Jeffrey S. Glenn" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another consideration for Aldon/CMS if you use COOL:2E (formerly Synon) or plan 
to use it in the 
future... Aldon sells a third party CMS add-on for the 2E side called MOM 
(Model Object Manager) 
that does a good job and interfaces well to Aldon.

Jeff 

---- Bill Erhardt <ERHARDT@baldwinhq.com> wrote:
> We have been using ALDON for 8 years and it has proven to be a very worthy
> utility.  It is worth its weight in system resources for large projects, or
> projects that require off hour installs but it can slow things down if your
> only making a minor change to one program.  We have a development box and
> two production boxes.  One of the production boxes is local, the other is
> remote.  We use SNA to distribute to the local box and FTP for the remote
> (our WAN does not route SNA traffic).  Aldon uses a third party software
> product (from bug busters) to handle the FTP side of distribution.
> In the eight years we have been using the product I've found only three
> short falls:
> 1) It gets a little funky when dealing with IBM object types like DFU and
> MENU
> 2) It requires a lock on the based on physical file when distributing a
> changed or new logical file.
> 3) It does not support SQL views.
> 
> I can see where they would have a problem with SQL views.  The system sees
> views as logical views without access paths and are not source based.  We
> have greatly restricted our use of views not so much because of an Aldon
> short comings as the fear of recovering or changing something that is not
> source based.
> Digging them about DFU's and MENU's is kind of a cheep shot.  We have moved
> away from both object types.
> Needing locks to distribute logical views is, in my mind, a real problem.
> We have worked around it via astute installs or distributing individual
> objects manually (outside of Aldon).
> 
> Having said this Aldon has saved me so much time and so many headaches that
> I don't think I would work to work in a shop without it. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       krzysztof.zygulski@big.pl [SMTP:krzysztof.zygulski@big.pl]
> > Sent:       Thursday, February 01, 2001 3:47 AM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject:    ODP: ACMS Aldon
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > thank you for info. 
> > I understand that you have tried the ACMS system. May I ask you the
> > question
> > ? What are the advantages and weak points of Aldon in your opinion ? Does
> > it
> > serve remote system library/files or IFS local objects ?
> > Krzysztof in BIG 
> > -----Oryginalna wiadomo¶æ-----
> > Od: Don [mailto:dr2@cssas400.com]
> > Wys³ano: 31 stycznia 2001 14:13
> > Do: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Temat: Re: ACMS Aldon
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Well,  if you have to use a CMS, Aldon's, in my opinion, is one of the
> > better ones to use.
> > 
> > Don in DC
> > 
> > ---------
> > 
> > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 krzysztof.zygulski@big.pl wrote:
> > 
> > > Hellow Dear Companions,
> > > 
> > > I am new to the list. 
> > > I would like to use  experience and knowledge of its members.
> > > 
> > > My task is Aldon ACMS V7.or lower..
> > >  I hope that somebody has experience with the product and could estimate
> > its
> > > flexibility and other features. How it behaves in maintenance,
> > > implementation e.t.c.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for help
> > > 
> > > Krzysztof
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Krzysztof.Zygulski@big.pl 
> > > 
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