ChangeMaster works with your current
program development methodology and does not
alter the way you make application changes. The Check-Out
command copies the source and objects to be modified from the production
library to a developer's work library. The Check-In command
promotes the changes to the Testing level library and
automatically recreates (recompiles)
objects in the Test library from the modified source.
Object reservation prevents
simultaneous modifications to the same object or source member by
different programmers working in the same area of a project.
When a developer "checks-out" an object,
ChangeMaster reserves that object for the user profile who
issued the Check-Out command.
With ChangeMaster, change management
is truly easy to learn and
easy to use.
Your developers simply "Check-Out" and "Check-In."
In fact, they don't have to alter the way they make changes, compile,
test, and debug their programs. Your developers can learn to
use ChangeMaster in just 15 to 30
minutes.
You cannot Check-In a modified object or source member unless
you checked it out first. This
prevents many of the typical problems
that arise when two programmers update the same object and overlay each
other's source changes.
ChangeMaster is designed to work
within PDM. Developers can issue the
ChangeMaster commands from menus,
from a command line, or using the supplied
PDM user-defined options. This provides truly
transparent change management that
does not require your programmers to change the way they
work.
ChangeMaster will automatically
distribute objects from a development
iSeries-AS/400 to one or more "production" machines upon Check-In, if the
project administrator specifies this.
ChangeMaster works with many popular
software development tools and utilities from various vendors such as:
ASC's Abstract/Probe Plus, BCD's DocuMint and ProGen Plus, and
Hawkeye's Pathfinder. Thus, ISS protects your investment in any tools
and utilities you have already licensed from other vendors.
ChangeMaster provides
complete change management for all
of your applications, including native iSeries-AS/400, and System/36 or System/38
Environment programs written in any language supported by OS/400.
ChangeMaster works with BPCS,
MAC-PAC, MAPICS, PRMS, Infinium, and many other vendor
applications packages.
ChangeMaster's built-in
Compare Source
command highlights the
differences between any two versions
of a source member to determine exactly what was changed. Use SEU's
edit/browse split-screen mode to easily "
cut-and-paste" modifications into a new version.
ChangeMaster allows for
parallel development and
maintenance activities.
Whether you are developing in-house applications or customizing
a vendor's source code, ChangeMaster
eases the task of maintaining applications. Each
area of a project
uses a unique set of branching version
numbers, keeping track of all versions in the same project.
This feature is especially useful when you receive a new release
of a vendor's software, and you have made local modifications to the
package.
ChangeMaster's operation can be
custom tailored to meet unique requirements by modifying any
of the documented CL exit procedures provided with
ChangeMaster . You can even write your own CL command
procedures to invoke ChangeMaster
commands. (The ChangeMaster
documentation describes how to use each API and modify the CL exits to
meet site-specific or project-specific requirements.)
ChangeMaster stores compressed
versions of objects and source members in a project's
archive database (with the date/time
archived, UserID, a change description and optional user information
for each version). ChangeMaster
stores RPG source code with 80% compression on average,
and other source languages with 75% average compression.
Are database modifications occupying a great deal of your valuable time?
Your developers can use ChangeMaster's
Find command to perform "Impact Analysis",
searching for patterns in all or selected source members. The Find
command displays or prints the name of each member where a pattern is found,
and can also display or print all source lines where the pattern is located
within each source member. Suppose you need to change a database field
"CMDATE" from 6 to 8 positions; you need to identify every RPG
program affected by this change. How can you do it? With
ChangeMaster, it's as easy as:
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