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TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 and WDSC: Support for Native System i Development

TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 offers the best change management support available for RPG, ILE, COBOL, CL, and SQL development in WDSC. View your assigned tasks, analyze changes, cross-reference and check out objects, add them to a worklist, access change history, launch editors, run error-checking, compile and promote your work — and never leave your workspace!

In addition to reliable source/object control, error-checking, and analysis tools, TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 boosts developer productivity in WDSC with features such as:

  • Familiar, Efficient Interface
  • Filtered Views of Your Work
  • Advanced ILE Analysis
  • Unique Compile Wizard
  • Repeatable Automated Promotions
  • Fast and Foolproof Recovery
  • Easy Transition from 5250

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Familiar, Efficient Interface

 

If you know how to navigate and customize WDSC, you know how to navigate and customize TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 views. By retaining rigorous consistency with the WDSC interface, TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 significantly cuts every developer's learning curve.


The TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 plug-ins take full advantage of WDSC's graphical environment. Right click for immediate access to relevant options, drag and drop to add items to your worklist, and keep multiple views on your screen so you can simultaneously see any combination of tasks, worklists, source, or promotion requests.

TURNOVER plug-in screenshot         The user interface for the TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 plug-ins
                      exactly mirrors the WDSC GUI

 

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Filtered Views of Your Work

 

Find what you need more quickly. TURNOVER® for iSeries v100's filtering lets you create views of source and objects by library, object types or attributes. Also filter your tasks by criteria such as priority, status, project, or requester.


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Advanced ILE Analysis

 

TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 includes built-in, procedure-level ILE cross-referencing. This useful tool lets you quickly see all of the modules that use an ILE procedure so you can checkout and modify them as needed. When the time comes to compile, TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 automatically finds and rebinds all related programs and service programs.


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Unique Compile Wizard

 

When it comes to development efficiency, TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 has no equal. Consider the Compile Wizard, which lets you test your changes and your compile process without moving anything out of development. You select the group of objects you want to compile, and the compile wizard does the rest. It organizes the compile and puts everything in the right order automatically. It checks for dependent objects as well as custom compile commands. If your change involves a physical file, it will repopulate the file with your data, recompile associated logicals, and even reapply triggers and constraints. Everything you need is created in development for you, ready to be tested.


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Repeatable Automated Promotions

 

TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 makes promotion into test and production environments highly repeatable, easy, and free of surprises. It lets developers define special processing instructions, remembers every detail of each change, and meticulously replicates them in subsequent promotions. You can comfortably delegate promotions to IT administrators to free valuable time for mission-critical design and development tasks.


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Fast and Foolproof Recovery

 

Because you can set TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 to archive each item it promotes, regardless of its final destination, you can recover any promotion across your network, immediately, should a problem occur. No more trouble-shooting while users wait for their application.

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Easy Transition from 5250

 

If your 5250 developers plan to move to WDSC, you'll appreciate how much TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 shortens the learning curve. With TURNOVER®, the process, automation, and organization you use in 5250 translate directly into the WDSC environment. You can confidently use WDSC to do real work from day one without having to learn all the intricacies of the IDE. If you run into an obstacle, you can move back to 5250 at a moment's notice and pick up right where you left off.


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Support for Java and Other Technologies

Working with Java, JSPs, WebFacing, XML, HTML, or other types

of artifacts? Just switch to whatever perspective you use for that work, and TURNOVER® for iSeries v100's version control plug-ins will manage it for you.


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Easy Implementation

 

Unlike other products, TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 can be implemented immediately because it works with your existing development environment, however it's structured. With this approach, you can benefit from TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 faster and realize your return on investment sooner than with any other System i-based product.

 

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Low Cost of Ownership

 

Once set up, TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 performs without fail until you choose to change it. When your requirements do change, you'll understand why UNICOM's exceptional technical support and generous upgrade policies have marked TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 as the best value in Software Management. Just ask existing TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 customers who received the WDSC plug-ins as a free upgrade!


You be the judge. Let us show you how efficiently the TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 plug-ins work. We're confident that you'll agree - TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 gives you the most integrated, intuitive, and comprehensive support available today for even your most complex WebSphere development projects.

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