Hi,
In our environment we are currently using Natural for Mainframe, fairly up to date version.
The developers are developing on the mainframe - green screen.
We are also using PAC for version control.
However, PAC does not provide the same functionality and integration that you get when you use say, SubVersion.
We are at a stage now where we are expected to make changes to hundreds of programs simultaneously so we must have a full proof, flexible source control system. I somehow do not think that PAC will do.
Is there any white paper discussing the use of Natural in a flexable, fully fledged source control environment like SubVersion.
Any suggestions of what we can use?
I am thinking of using Natural on Eclipse and making using of SubVersion in that environment. But even in such environment I am looking for some himts of how to set up the environment so that it integrates well with the mainframe where we keep the sources and works for us.
Hi itsik,
I`m far VERY from being of any “adviser” regarding such a matter, but I’d like to point your attention to Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/
a DVCS (the key word is “distributed” taking into account your quite specific requirements). I’ve read about it purely by chance and did not try it out; as such it would be on your own “risk” to attempt to integrate it with “mainframe”
Hi Nikolay
Mercurial is a distributed source control management tool with interesting capabilities. However, it lacks the capability to integrate with the mainframe out of the box .
The “distributed” feature is not really important here as the developers and the mainframe can be considered to be co-located.
Hi,
we deliver with NaturalONE (ant) scripts for deployment from subversion also to a mainframe.
so you can depploy directly from SVN into a e.g. PAC controlled environment and then continue
the PAC way as you do today.
Alternatively we deliver an LCM (life cycle managment system) based on centraSite also working together with
NaturalONE/Subversion
best regards Karlheinz
Can you maybe refer me to a white paper where the implementation of this concept from a SoftwareAG perspective is discussed?
Is there maybe an online demo that I can view/play with?
I must admit that besides the nice feely/touchy stuff of working on Natural code in an Eclipse environment, I could not see any tangible evidence for a successful implementation of a solution around source control management from SoftwareAG that can also talk to release management as well as requirements managment. Again, I might be wrong here, hence the request for a white paper/online demo.
While the topics I mention are big elephants and will not be implemented by us immediateley, this is definitely the way to go.
Hello Karlheinz,
somehow I am unable to open this presentation in Empower, I just end up with “Internet Explorer cannot open this website”. Is there some other way to get it ? I would be very interested to see what it says…
No, that’s not the problem. Other presentations work fine, just not that one… But I have had more problems with SAGs different sites lately, so it might not necessarily have anything to do with this specific document. I just tried again and now I cannot even get into Empower, IE just times out.
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