Re: Change Control

Hello,

On 6 May 2004 at 16:08, Dave Snyder wrote:

> What are small shops (less than 5 on staff) doing for change control 
> procedures? > 

well, AS400-wise we are only 5 people doing stuff, but as we belong to a big 
corporation,
and handle medical items, there are lots of regulations change-control-wise.

On the organisational side, we have change-control request papers and all that 
stuff. We 
send out test requests to our users which have to be signed before anything 
goes into 
production.

We have separate test and live systems. Programs are developed and changed 
either in
private libraries (first steps) and then in development lib. Putting stuff into 
test/live system
requires signed promotion papers and is done through a self-written MOVEOBJ 
utility.

With only 5 people in the AS400 team, everybody needs and has *secofr rights to 
be able 
to fix stuff at off-hours.

So, the loopholes are that programmers can change live data and basically, a 
program can 
be checked out by several people (as there is no check-out procedure).

But this has been working well enough for us for 10+ years.

Regards,

Oliver