TURNOVER® for iSeries v100's promotion process revolves around the reliable TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 Form – a simple concept with powerful capabilities that:
- Coordinates movement of all System i and PC files
- Preserves special handling instructions
- Recompiles related System i objects automatically
- Schedules and/or groups promotions
- Provides error recovery and rollback
- Handles cross-platform deployment
- Lets you test your promotion process as well as your changes
With TURNOVER® for iSeries v100, you prepare objects for promotion into test or production simply by selecting the items you want to promote. TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 automatically builds a "Form." The Form ensures that a change is promoted correctly every time by using TURNOVER® for iSeries v100's error checking and cross-referencing, and by remembering every detail of a promotion.
Forms let you customize promotions with create command overrides and pre- and post-run commands that perform supplementary steps (necessary for some WebSphere applications). The system will remember all your customizations the next time you promote an associated object.
Of course, the best way to control risk is to test your process as well as your code. TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 uses the exact same Form-based process to promote changes into your production environment as it does to promote them into your test environment. After successful installation into a test environment, you simply copy the Form to move those changes through additional test levels and ultimately into production, significantly reducing the risk of unexpected results.
Using the Form, a promotion can be scheduled locally, approved, run, distributed, then scheduled and run on remote System i servers. A wide range of recovery options ensures that your promotions are as risk-free as possible. The Form lets you recover all, or just a portion, of a change, which is essential if you have to back out a change quickly. It can even be restarted exactly where it stopped if a job is cancelled by mistake or interrupted.
The Form retains an exact history of every change to each object, in context, for a complete audit trail of each promotion. The Forms-based promotion process provides the operations visibility that compliance auditors and managers require.
The TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 Form greatly improves the reliability of your systems.
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