RE: Development machine

Mike:
Lots of good suggestions here.  I think a change management system is a good
thing, especially if you have a lot of programmers or lots of AS400s to keep
up to date with the same software config.  I might get flamed, but if you
have been able to get by without formal change management software up to
this point, then I don't see where adding a separate box for development
makes much of a difference.

We use a separate box for development here, mainly because we do the
development on a P05 box and the production box is a P30 box and the cost of
the WDS LPP was huge on the P30 compared to the P05.  It has not been a
hassle at all.  We have dup libs on the development box for the database
libs on the production box.  On the development box, all the database
libraries contain DDM file pointing to the production system (for
compilation purposes).  Of, if you have enough disk space, you could put a
complete or scaled down copy on the development system.

To move program mods to  production, we save the objects to a SAVF, FTP the
save file and restore the objects.  I know this is pretty low tech, but it
does work since we have a relatively small number of programmers touching
the code.

HTH.
cjg

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Condon, Mike
We are looking at setting up a "spare" AS400 for our developers to tear up
instead of degrading performance on our production machine. 
Do you any of you all have guidelines or advice on how to transfer source &
database files back & forth between the two machines? I realize this may be
a broad question, which is why I'm not providing a lot of details up front,
until some of the discussion begins.