Ted MacNEIL wrote:
So what ?
I talk about several thousands. There are toos like Endevor or Serena
Changeman for managing it.
...
If you have the money to throw at these tools, maybe.
The testing logistics to convert en masse are ridiculous.
???
I don't understand.
...
We don't have the bodies to test them all.
My management will only do it by attrition, or not at all.
Ted,
C'mon! You have no money to spent on tools like code mgmt, really ?
You wrote about Parallel Sysplex - I'd suspect it is quite big
installation, so such tool like Changeman won't change mainframe budget
visibly.
Regarding bodies for testing: do you have any for testing new
OS/database/CICS/others releases ? Maybe it's not obvious, but all the
compilation work is done by computer itself (no human attendance), the
result is the list of compilation errors. Quite short one.
I can recompile any of my application programs and I'm quite sure that
it will work unchanged - this is due to code management tool which
assures that compiled version on Prod system comes from the source in
"master" library.
Another pro for mass recompilation is you detect problems before they
could occur in real life. You have time to analyze and fix it, no
release is to be "just tomorrow", etc.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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