- Product option for ChangeMan ZMF for managing IDMS/ADSO.
- Fully integrated with ChangeMan ZMF (not a standalone product).
- Mature / rich interface based on ChangeMan ZMF’s XML services.
- Compliant with any release of ChangeMan ZMF and IDMS/ADSO.
- Enables standard ChangeMan ZMF for addressing traditional SCM requirements for IDMS/ADSO components, such as:
- Packaging of changes.
- Checkout / check-in.
- Parallel development / prevent version regressions.
- Emergency fixes.
- Enforce component ownership (IDD owned, common components).
- Impact analysis / audit (“predict problems”).
- Scan for random strings.
- Enforce code freeze.
- Manage multiple environments (unit-test, QA-test, prod, …), which can either be local or remote.
- Approval of changes.
- Enforce authorizations.
- Extends ChangeMan ZMF to also address the SCM challenges specific to IDMS/ADSO, such as:
- Inventory of an entire IDMS/ADSO application (all its executables, and all source components used to create executables).
- Time required to regenerate a (huge) IDMS/ADSO appl.
- Which (versions of) building blocks created an executable?
- Discover updated source components / building blocks.
- Trigger the required check-ins and regenerate(s).
- Only migrate updated sources or building blocks.
- Handle unexpected RC=08 situations in IDMSDDDL.
- Multi language support via alternate MAPs.
- Prevent runtime errors (timestamp MAP/DIA, TBL/MAP).
- Dynamically called ADSO dialogs.
- Which ADSO map is displayed by which ADSO dialog?
- Scratch requests (but only if “no more used” components).
- Integrate with existing SCM tool.
- Conversion assistance to migrate to a new SCM tool.
- Conversion and implementation services available via AbitMORE.
- Software license may be bundled with other AbitMORE SCM product options for ChangeMan ZMF (AbitMORE SCM Reporting, AbitMORE SCM Commander).
