Can we find which Turnover Forms ran from a specific Turnover Application? The answer is ‘YES’ and you might find it’s easier than you thought. Using good old fashioned green screen menus (which in my case are white screens – but dont let that distract you) we can find this info quickly and easily. Here

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TUR3333 – No local Turnover system Defined This week I mainly been playing with Turnover V100…. Preparing TURNOVER V100 (Software Change Management tool for IBMi Systems) for a major application upgrade, adding the ability to use Turnover Forms for specifically deleting and/or moving objects from one environment (library) to another. In this case its because

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IBM i (iSeries/as400) Turnover Consultant – will change-manage for food “will change-manage for food” – is that a verb? Me. Considering my next exciting freelance project In this crazy world of IT acronyms and Dilbert cubicle terminology the art of Software Change Management and Program Deployment is one of the few terms that means exactly

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TURNOVER V100 – PWM Quick Reference How to get to PWM Option 20 on Work with Tasks, F20 on Work with Projects or STRPWM command Development steps(Presented in the order they are usually done)F6 Add items to listPress F6 to add itemor Press F20 to go to PDMIn PDM use AI1 to add items to

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changed outside of turnover – #AAAARGH I’m currently working with IBMi (iSeries) Turnover change management system. It’s the best SCM (Software Change Management) application in IBMi land and has a great balance between being easy to use and very powerful. I know the product fairly well, but it still grins and kicks me in the

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Turnover and External Procedures I’ve been having a problem promoting Stored Procedures today. After an hour of looking at two different Applications defined in Turnover – where one works fine and the other… *cough…. doesn’t. I’m still none the wiser. Grrrrr So this little cheat sheet may come in handy for me (and for you!)

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It’s Dirty but it works! So this is a technique that I discovered while trying to get WDSSC7.0.0.8 working with the April 2013 build of Turnover V100 Windows Client. This works but I wouldn’t recommend it as this is a much simpler solution. Well.. while we are waiting for Unicom to release a backward-compatible plugins

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Turnover manages both new development and modifications very smoothly. Once you have your brain around the core concepts of how software change management works, and also have a grasp of checking out code, promoting changes to higher levels and distributing to remote system then Turnover is intuitive and straight forward. However, if you are still

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Term Definition RFC (Request for Change) A high-level change request that captures the detail of a change that is to be made to a new or existing application. RFCs are usually decomposed down to lower level work requests or tasks for software development. CAB (Change Advisory Board) The collection of stakeholders who review all RFCs

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Promoting Files using TURNOVER Using a Change Management tool to promote files makes the creation and replacement of target files so much easier. #INTERNET-FACT: Turnover for iSeries, is a change management tool that really eases this process for us developers. Consider this scenario – we want to make a change to an IBM i *PF

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Softlanding Turnover Change Management tool works great and has a nice windows front end (based on Eclipse) and most of the functions are easy to find. For those green screen stalwarts out there – you can also access Turnover from the green screen 5250 command line. Most functions are pretty easy to find but some

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IBM i and Software Change Management Tools Today’s SCM (Software Change Management) systems are as focused on productivity gains for the programmer as they are on “controlling” or managing the source and objects. Anything that can be done to make programmers more effective and more efficient in their development process is a very worthy investment.

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