Re: traditional AS/400 code base CMS transition

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jay

At a previous employer we ran into what I have to call gouging at 
SoftLanding - after their acquisition by, I believe, by Unicom - 
previous agreements with the founder were ignored, for example.

Anyhow, old story long gone. As to alternatives, you have heard of PTC 
and Aldon. Another couple possibilities include Arcad, which also has 
forays into DevOps using git and Jira and other tools.

There is something from a company called Midrange Dynamics - several 
people there used to work at SoftLanding. There was also a product from 
Europe whose name I forget now.

And IBM Rational Team Concert is an option - IBM have put in the support 
for dependencies on IBM i, it ties in nicely with RDi. Worth a look, 
too, I think.

Good luck!
Vern

On 1/15/2020 8:45 AM, Jay Vaughn wrote:
> So, our company was just acquired by another company with deeper pockets
> and SoftLanding is asking an arm and a leg now to transfer the CMS to our
> new company.
>
> So, we are exploring alternatives.
>
> Could have up to 10-20 iseries devs working on the code base (which is
> large - hundreds for files/tables and thousands of pgms)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Is there a sharp learning curve for github enterprise (pro), compared to
> what we are used to now with TO?
>
> tia
>
> jay