IS 10.15 and VCS with the WmVCS package?

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Hello,
is anyone using webMethods Central Development and VCS with the WmVCS package in webMethods IS 10.15 successfully ?

The WmVCS package was deprecated in IS 9.9 according to the documentation but I am able to find it and install on IS 10.15 but did not get it to work properly. Wondering if I should spend more time on trying to get it to work or scrap the idea of using Central Development and VCS functionality in IS 10.15

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Hi,

the WmVCS package was introduced long way before Local Service Development was introduced.
The WmVCS package serves as a Runtime package like the ART for Adapters and will require at least one additional package (from only 3 available ones) for the VCS you want to use. Not all of them will work with Unix-like OSes, some will only work with Windows like the WmVSS package for VisualSourceSafe from Microsoft.

The recommended approach is using Local Service Development feature via Designer (using Eclipse-based VCS plugins) and then merge the code via Repository based Deployment to the central development instance for first compatibility and integration testing before deploying the code to QA and Prod.
This is more flexible as there are Eclipse plugins available for many more VCS systems then those 3 which were available for the WmVCS feature.

Regards,
Holger

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