Re: Aldon and SoftLanding

["Steve Landess" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Donald Fisher wrote:
> Did Aldon perform the setup or did you?  How long did it take?

Donald -
The question above is a "loaded" one...

I did a scratch ACMS setup for a client of mine in Austin back in the 90's.

It really depends on whether you intend to assimilate all vendor code and 
objects into Aldon (not recommended) or not.  The alternative is to lock 
down the vendor's pristine code, only bringing custom code and modified 
vendor code into ACMS.

We had an Aldon instructor on-site for approximately one week, training all 
of us on the setup and use of ACMS.  The instructor helped us get started on 
getting everything ready, including advice on best practices for setup, 
initial load, and ongoing use of the system.

After the training session, we did everything...

We went through a thorough analysis of ALL source and objects, which 
included recompiling EVERYTHING from the source code (both vendor's and 
custom) in order to establish baseline source-object integrity, then added 
every object (approximately 6000 of them), whether source-based or not, to 
ACMS.

We iteratively ran their "Verify" report to identify objects with integrity 
problems, fixing the problems one-by-one, until the report was completely 
clean.  In total, it took us around three months to achieve complete 
source-object integrity on the system.

If you go the other route, which is to only bring the custom code and 
modified vendor code into ACMS, depending on the number of source members 
and objects, you should be able to do it in less than a month, if you don't 
mind having some source-object integrity problems reported by the Verify 
report.

Regards,
Steve