Re: Lawson test env crt tool

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:07, Jerome Draper wrote:
> We need to create a test environment for our Lawson software that would be a
> subset of the production env.  Is there a tool for this?  Anyone done it in an
> organized fashion?
> 
> Currently our test environment is actually larger than our production which is
> way out of line and eating up too much DASD.

Hi Jerome

I don't know about Lawson software requirements[1], but I've got an open
source project, DBG/400, to create test environments & create data
copies/subsets. Details at http://www.dbg400.net/dbg400.html

Regards, Martin
[1] Test environment creation (data files & data areas) is dependant on
DSPPGMREF information. If Lawson code makes use of 'hidden' program
calls - embedded in variables etc - instead of regular CALL/CALLP that
can be resolved at compile time, then it won't do as much for you. The
data extraction tool works from the finished test environment, so would
build your extraction scripts for any library - created via DBG/400 or
elsewhere.
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