Serena ChangeMan z/OS and OS/390
Serena ChangeMan z/OS and OS/390 protects your corporate assets - and in the process, streamlines IT to increase programmer productivity and accelerate development. Serena ChangeMan z/OS and OS/390 controls every code change. It guarantees source-to-load integrity and ensures that only successfully tested programs make it into production. Serena ChangeMan z/OS and OS/390 reduces maintenance costs and regression errors by moving code through an automated life cycle with strict accountability and quality assurances at every step. It can integrate scheduling forms and approval processes online. It can enforce developer communication and perform regression analyses as part of the most thorough treatment of concurrent development available. It makes code easier to find, modify and deploy.
The fastest-implementing SCM solution for MVS environments and the one most widely relied upon by organizations using commercial change control*, Serena ChangeMan z/OS and OS/390 is easy to learn and embrace. It uses the standard IBM ISPF programming language and is extendible to job scheduling, file transfer, database management, security and library management systems.
A Full-Featured SCM System, Serena ChangeMan z/OS and OS/390 Gives You:
- Impact analysis. Assess the ramifications of a change before it hits production.
- Version control. Manage any number of component versions.
- Library management. An integral part of the streamlined process.
- Audit trails. Turn audits into discovery trails, not mysteries.
- Online approvals. Fast and secure, in parallel, serial or both.
- Concurrent development relief. Eliminate overlays and cultivate developer communications.
- Freeze control. Ensure that the changes tested are the ones put into production.
- Automated backout. Revert to earlier code in seconds.
- Checkout. Ensure developers are working with the right version every time.
- Emergency protocols. Protect the integrity of the quick fix.
- Online forms. Reduce paperwork and keep the process moving.
- Managed Processes. Automatically control and track all component translation processes.
- Security. Protect your data in concert with your security system.
Serena ChangeMan z/OS and OS/390 focuses on the process of moving changes through an organization, and treats change management as a business issue rather than a technical requirement. It eliminates missing source code problems. It employs "change packages" that enhance developer creativity while establishing consistency and improving management reporting. It increases system availability and can take the fear out of software audits.
Handle Your Software With Care - For Its Entire Lifecycle
Businesses change, and the software that runs businesses must change, too. Serena ChangeMan z/OS and OS/390 integrates the software lifecycle to make change easier - automating steps from development, through test and into production. Because it improves the integrity of the code migration process, Serena ChangeMan z/OS and OS/390 will favorably impact your bottom line as long as software is upgraded, customized or called on to drive business initiatives.
Change Packages Provide Additional Efficiencies
Serena ChangeMan z/OS and OS/390 introduces "Change Packages" to deliver unparalleled efficiency and management control. Serena ChangeMan z/OS and OS/390 groups all components of a change together at the beginning, protecting the integrity of the entire change throughout the software lifecycle. A change package may contain up to thousands of components, and developers can act on entire groups of components with a single package command.
With Change Packages:
- source-to-load integrity is locked down early
- all activities performed on a change package are captured and tracked online component impact is consistently reported component
- versions are linked throughout the lifecycle
- developers no longer have to remember which components need to migrate together
With Change Packages, all components of a change are modified together, installed together, even backed out together.