EXTPRC – External Procedures Question: How do I promote External Procedure using Turnover and get them to automatically *REPLACE on the destination machine? Answer: Like this! The problem here, is that SQL Stored Procedures have no equivalent of *REPLACE on the CREATE PROCEDURE statement! That’s easy – “just add a Drop to line one of the

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Install Turnover V100 Software Change Management Application Grab the latest Turnover ZIP file from your supplied IBM i CD or from http://support.softlanding.com This zip file contains the IBM i software for TURNOVER® for iSeries v100. Lets do this! Follow these steps to load the T100INST installation library. Each step is explained in detail in the

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I’m in the final stages of a fun project writing web-services to interface INFOR System21 (on an IBM i aka AS400) with ACSIS Visitrack (on Windows Server), we are consuming (receiving) and serving (sending) all data in a standard alphameric layout But… as any RPG programmer will know… the conversion between alpha to numeric is

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Thanks to Mr Aaron Bartell for this excellent article on using GIT for controlling source code changes on IBM i. I’ve been doing this for a while on source code for PROJEX4i and have kept meaning to write a little blog about it. Aaron’s article nicely touches on the high-level concepts of GIT, it’s ease

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Steps to remove code from scheduled Releases Simple steps to archive Turnover objects using Turnover Change Management for IBM i ( and the older iSeries / AS400 machines) TO – Turnover Menu Option 9 – Work with Projects and Tasks Create a Worklist and then Checkout program at top level (presumably your production level) Option 46

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Are you still running the archaic WDSC7? So we already agree that using WDSC for IBM i software editing, for free, is pretty cool. But, adding Turnover V100 to it, so you can do everything from one place is even cooler. Once we have added the Turnover perspective to our existing WDSC7 setup then we

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Software Change Management Roles and Responsibilities If you are designing the best setup for your Software Change Management system (specifically TURNOVER V100 for iSeries) these notes might help. We have four main user groups: Software Solution Analysts Change Administrators Development Team QA/UAT Team System Authorities We need to clean the IBM I authorities so they

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Having Extension Problems? Viagra isnt helping? Then you have come to the right place. If you are seeing compatibility errors, perspective crashes or white screen of death when trying to open Turnover from within WDSC then this might just help. I’ve had a horrible time trying to get WDSC7 Turnover Perspective working when using the

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IBM i TURNOVER Software Change Management Turnover (from Soft Landings Inc) is a pretty cool Software Change Management system running on ISERIES *cough* IBM i. NOTICE FOR SOFTLANDING SYSTEMS You are marketing your Change Management Product as ‘Turnover for iSeries V100’. But IBM no longer sell the iSeries systems. In fact, IBM haven’t sold this

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IBMi External Procedures in TURNOVER Turnover (the one written by Softlanding that does Change Management, not the little pastry that is full of apple and tastes delicious) is a pretty cool Software Change Management application native to IBMi. But of course, you already knew that. But, did you know that you can promote an EXTERNAL

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RPG Programming Standards? “RPG Programming Standards” have been debated since the invention of the wheel. With an entire generation of RPG programmers evolving from the early days of System/3x column based RPG code to modern free flowing web format code the adoption of a simple clean programming layout standard has been a mythical quest. Old

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TURNOVER Client (aka Turnover GUI) Turnover (from Soft Landings Inc) is a pretty cool Software Change Management system running on iseries IBM i. The IBM i system is the Server. We connect to the IBM i TURNOVER SERVER from our device (laptop, desktop, mobile, etc) using software called TURNOVER CLIENT. Back in the bad old

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