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ChangeMan Tool Overview

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Presented By Swathi Peicharla

Agenda
Introduction Overview of ChangeMan Lifecycle Close

What is ChangeMan ?

Change Man is a comprehensive system designed to provide both reliable & streamlined implementation of software changes from development into production.

Change Man lets you quickly implement an automated infrastructure that delivers tangible and long-term benefits.

Features Of ChangeMan

Unique package concept guarantees the coordination of your change

Concurrent development is managed Controls version discrepancy and out-of-synch component relationships Maintains listings on-line for immediate access Provides notifications

Full suite of on-line and batch query and reporting capabilities

Maintain historical information in a single repository.

Lifecycle Automation
Checkout Create Stage Audit Promote

Promote
Install Approve Freeze

Backout

Lifecycle Automation: Create

Checkout Create Stage

Audit Promote

Backout

Install

Approve Freeze

Promote

Create Change Package

Within Change Man, a Change Package is the vehicle in which all changes are moved from a development environment to a production environment. A change package may contain one or more components (source, copybook, load, JCL, control cards, compiling procedures, documentation, and other components) which are required to implement a software change.

Create Change Package

Lifecycle Automation: Checkout

Checkout Create Impact Analysis Stage

Audit Promote

Backout

Install

Approve Freeze

Promote

Checkout
The checkout process allows to copy components from baseline libraries to a Change Man staging library or to a personal development library where you can make changes.

Lifecycle Automation: Checkout

Baseline Libraries Staging Libraries Created
Application Package Number Library Type Source Load DBRM etc.

Application Grouping Exists Source Members Only one version Created

Unless parallel development enabled

can be checked out

Development Libraries
(new applications)

Lifecycle Automation: Stage

Checkout Create Impact Analysis Stage

Audit Promote

Backout

Install

Approve Freeze

Promote

Stage
Components such as fixes,Control cards or copy members are copied into the staging libraries, if they are not there already.
For source components, staging will run the appropriate translation procedures to create associated load modules.

Lifecycle Automation: Stage

Staging Libraries Load Members Created
Edit, Compile & Link

Libraries Created Unique to Package

Editing Uses Staging Libraries

Lifecycle Automation:
Checkout Create Impact Analysis

Audit
Stage

Audit

Promote

Backout Install Approve Freeze Promote

Lifecycle Automation: Audit

The audit process identifies out-of-synch condition with in the Baseline Libraries and other participating packages. It Checks whether package is complete and logically correct MUST RUN Prior to Freeze Out-of-synch conditions could result from: Copybooks being modified after compiling the source component that calls them A package containing a load component that does not match its source component Member Not being active Member Copied, but not staged

Lifecycle Automation: Promotion Checkout

Create Impact Analysis Stage

Audit

Promote

Backout

Install

Approve Freeze

Promote

Lifecycle Automation: Promote

Promotion allows a package to be moved through various levels of testing. For example, promote from system testing to acceptance testing.

Promote
Staging Libraries UNIT Testing Libraries UNIT Testing . . . ACCT Testing Libraries ACCT Testing
Members Copied

Other Processing Eg. (JCLCHECK)

A Quick Recap
Production
Baseline Libraries

Checkout Development
Staging Libraries

Stage

Promote Testing
Unit

Promotion System Libraries

..

QA

Lifecycle Automation: Freeze Checkout

Create Impact Analysis Stage

Audit

Promote

Backout Install Approve Freeze Promote

Lifecycle Automation: Freeze

The freeze process locks the package and makes the package available for the promotion and approval processes.

Lifecycle Automation: Freeze

Package Master
Audit Checked

Install jobs created

Approvers informed
Changes Between Audit/Freeze HIghlighted Package can no longer be CHANGED

Lifecycle Automation: Approve Checkout

Create Impact Analysis Stage

Audit

Promote

Backout

Install

Approve Freeze

Promote

Lifecycle Automation: Approve

The approval process consists of browsing the package information and Staging Libraries for quality control and standards and selecting to Approve (or Reject) the package. A change package must be in Frozen (FRZ) status to be Approved or Rejected.

Lifecycle Automation: Install

Checkout Create Impact Analysis Stage

Audit

Promote

Backout

Install

Approve Freeze

Promote

Lifecycle Automation: Install

After all of the approvals have been gathered by Change Man, the package is ready to be installed. Installation depends on whether or not an internal scheduler is set up If no scheduling system is specified, the package goes through the Installation process immediately. If a Scheduling system is specified , the package follows the respective Scheduling system.

Lifecycle Automation: Install

Install Jobs Executed

final approval Change Man internal scheduler

external scheduler

Copies to production

Ripples baseline

Lifecycle Automation: Backout Checkout

Create Impact Analysis Stage

Audit

Promote

Backout

Install

Approve Freeze

Promote

Lifecycle Automation: Backout

If there is a problem with the change package after it has been Installed, the change package is backed out by deleting the updated component in production and then retrieving the previous version of application software from the Backup Library.

ChangeMan will back out the entire package by copying the components from the Backup Libraries to overlay production.
The package status is changed from BAS to BAK.

Lifecycle Automation: Backout

Complete Package Only

Package in BAK Status

Need to re-Audit re-Freeze re-Approve Install

A Quick Recap
Production
Baseline Libraries

Checkout Development
Staging Libraries

Stage

Promote Testing
Unit

Promotion System Libraries

..

QA

Production

Production Libraries

Thank You