Bloody Annual License Codes If you have ever scratched your head wondering how to set the license key in SOFTLANDING SOFTMENU then you have joined my club: I googled, binged, ducked ducked and went for an answer to “how to add authorization code to softlandings softmenu” until I was blue in the face, impatiently tapping

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TSERVER Subsystem on IBM i TURNOVER Software Change Management for iSeries (*) uses a subsystem to control the distribution of software revisions to other nodes in the network. The TURNOVER TSERVER subsystem is a quiet little background job that controls the sending and receiving jobs. * Softlanding not upgraded their TURNOVER software branding for over

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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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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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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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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 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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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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So, we all know that downloading big, fat files from the internet can be a big, fat pain in the big, fat arse. Luckily a free tool called “Free Download Manager” takes that pain away. Even if you enjoy a fast internet connection, being disconnected near the end of a big download can make you

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