I'm currently trying to promote a package in Changeman on mainframe. Currently it seems like there it's a series of incantations that I have to follow. Unfortunately, I can't remember magic incantations. I need to understand what's going on before I can follow. So, what's involved in Changeman, and what do the following mean: Stage, Chec...
Can anyone please tell what is change request management tool and what is involved when a change request is submitted to this tool? ...
How do I update the factory layout templates in Proficy Change Management (i.e. where are they located when checked out?). e.g. generic.htm? ...
Following the quickstart on liquibase i've created a changeset (very dumb :) ) Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <databaseChangeLog xmlns="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/1.6" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/1.6 ...
What is the better way to work with release management? More specifically what would be the best way to release packages? For example, assuming that you have a relatively stable system, a good quality assurance process (QA), etc. How do you prefer to release new versions? I have a tendency to prefer to do this by releasing packets at r...
I'm dangerously close to launching a pretty heavy web app and I've got almost everything out on my server in QA. I'm still touching up and making changes here and there and although I'm taking nightly snapshots of my server I would still like to have some form of change management in place so I can determine exactly what changed in my en...
My last employer had developed an elaborate system which sat on top of SVN to deal with ongoing development: (change management) look at bugs/issues and associate them with commits when making the commit by tagging the bug id number and (release management) tag items in SVN as part of a specific release based on the bug/issue tracking sy...
An interesting problem occured recently, and I've been thinking of the "best" way (for a given value of "best") to implement this. In essence, it's one of tracking notes against source code. The example that flagged this was getting a problem fixed in live within SLAs, and how to best achieve this. Without going into all the details, it...
We are thinking of restructuring our database development and deployment processes by using DBGhost, we want to move away from the central development database and bring the database to the source control. One of the problems we have is a big table with static data (containing translated language strings), it has close to 200K rows. I kn...
Building and maintaining a database that is then deplyed/developed further by many devs is something that goes on in software development all the time. We create a build script, and maintain further update scripts that get applied as the database grows over time. There are many ways to manage this, from manual updates to console apps/bui...
I'm looking for a way to setup pull deployment as apposed to the traditional push deployment model under Windows. The optimal situation would be: Deploy the file(s) to the master server The child server would check to see if the master had an update at a given time or time interval. If the master server contains an update, then it wou...
Where should I put my NHibernate SchemaExport method and how should I call it when I decide to recreate the database? Should I leave this in my startup project (an asp.net mvc project)? Should I create a seperate console project just for exporting my schema? I think these questions all originate from the fact that I don't want schema...
I may be working with Siebel CRM soon, and I'm looking for advice on using modern development practices and enterprise best practices. Specifically I'd like advice on the following areas: How should we set up version control (specifically with Subversion)? What kind of structure should our repository have? How should we handle branc...