RE: Change management systems

David,

While I can't comment on how well your homegrown deployment tools work, I will say that ANY mature CMS (or ALM) product will provide value to a development team. Part of this comes from the tight integration of object level x-ref, metadata repositories of compiler overrides, change audit reporting, project tracking, and so forth. I would NOT care to work without one, now.

JMO,
-Eric

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David FOXWELL
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 10:01 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Change management systems


Charles,

Judging by the posts that followed yours, not everyone seems to be completely satisfied by their CMS. In general, our home made tool has few problems, but needs a lot of manual interventions before being able to deploy and is often a little complicated. Sometimes there are failures, eg, a developper forgot to indicate one of the workfiles he'd modified and an rpg that used it didn't get compiled. This was not realised until runtime! I am thinking rather that CMS is not the way for us to go given that we already have a considerable investment in our own tool.

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De : midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Charles Wilt
Envoyé : mardi 9 mars 2010 14:11
À : Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Objet : Re: Change management systems

David,

If you look at everything a CMS provides, yes it is pretty
complicated to write your own.

Secondly, which would the business prefer for you to spend
your time on, writing a CMS or writing business apps.

A CMS should make a developer's life easier, thus even in a
one-man shop they are useful IMO.

Charles

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:29 AM, David FOXWELL
<David.FOXWELL@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

As we are looking at the possibility of revamping our

homegrown installation utility, I'd like to know more about
CMS. I never even heard of CMS before subscribing to this
list. I was wondering what I am missing. Is it really that
complicated to write a utility that takes care of the
development installation and everything that is impacted by
it? How might we benefit from buying a CMS?

Thanks.
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