ProTurn™ (The ProGen Plus™ Interface)

ProGen Plus™ users can now benefit from the tremendous power of TurnOver™ Change Management. ProTurn™ seamlessly integrates ProGen Plus and TurnOver, allowing developers to take full advantage of multiple development levels, project management, change control, object history, cross-referencing and Programmer Worklist, while retaining the flexibility and speed of ProGen Plus development.

ProTurn enables TurnOver to handle all ProGen Plus’ high-level definitions as objects so your development staff can better control the change cycle, and control which high-level objects are allowed to undergo development, without switching from one product to another. With only one software change methodology to learn, your staff will be productive quickly. Whether your development and production is on the same computer, or you distribute changes to one or more production computers, your ProGen Plus objects will be installed into production automatically and reliably, every time.

ProTurn’s features go beyond a simple interface to provide a more productive ProGen Plus development environment.

Supports Single and Multiple Environments

With ProTurn, you do not have to worry about your changes-in-progress interfering with production. ProTurn can work within ProGen Plus’ default of one physical environment to reliably maintain versions of high-level definitions. When you check out a PDF, ProTurn simply copies the PDF with a library name pointing to the development library defined in your TurnOver application. The copied PDF remains in the same physical ProGen Plus library, but is now in a separate environment from the original PDF in production.

If you need enhanced security for your development and production environments, you can choose to create completely separate environments using ProGen Plus. In this instance, high-level definitions are literally stored in different libraries. The iSeries or AS/400 authorization process helps ensure the integrity of the environments.

Complete ProGen Plus Integration

Under the covers, ProTurn uses ProGen Plus’ standard program definition (PDF) command structure. Because it uses ProGen Plus APIs, you can be confident that your PDFs are handled in the correct way, and that TurnOver will work smoothly with future releases of ProGen Plus.

Fast and Fail-Safe Promotion

When you build a promotion form, TurnOver automatically prompts you to include all objects checked out for the task, including all generated 3GL objects. ProTurn checks for consistency during promotion and will not allow the promotion to run if the PDF and all its 3GL components are not on the form.

Because the promotion job runs completely automatically, it can be scheduled to run after hours without your assistance. Should the promotion fail, TurnOver maintains full integrity of the production environment by automatically restoring the previous state of the production environment.

Check Out ProGen Plus Definitions

ProTurn treats all ProGen Plus definition types, such as PDFs, user code, and validation modules, as typical iSeries objects that can be checked out in batch or interactively, changed and promoted. Using the command CHKOUTPDF, ProTurn also automatically checks out the underlying PDF-related 3GL objects.

Register new ProGen Plus definition names simply by adding them to your worklist and checking them out. ProTurn guarantees that the definition name is unique and ensures you have a lock on the names you reserve.

Change ProGen Plus-Developed Code and Native Code at the Same Time

TurnOver handles both ProGen Plus-developed code and native code the same way. Your developers learn just one methodology to make changes. They can change all related objects at the same time, off the same worklist, regardless of how those objects were generated.

Complete Change History

Checkout provides you with a record of which ProGen Plus definitions each developer is working on. Throughout the change process, TurnOver helps you document your work. Checkout and change history is maintained indefinitely for future inquiry and reporting.

Cross-Referencing

ProTurn automatically populates and maintains TurnOver’s cross-referencing tables with PDF information. As you check out PDF objects from the Worklist, it’s easy to see all relationships between the PDF, user code and other programs. You can then check out the related objects for change.

Emergency Changes

An emergency change feature, used when you need to fix a production object currently being revised, is included. Failed promotions can be copied, changed and re-run at will.

Manual Rollback

If a newly installed change creates problems in production, you can roll the changed code back into development without losing production time. TurnOver immediately restores the previous production environment so production is up and running while the new code undergoes further change and testing.

Interface & Application Software Support

You can use TurnOver's many APIs or built-in interfaces to bridge to any software package, including:

Built-In Interfaces	Application Support	Optional Interfaces*
Abstract^™	ASI^™	AllFusion 2E^®
AllFusion Plex^™	BPCS^®/ERPLX	AS/SET^®
Code/400^™	PRMS^™	Dimensions^™
Deploy/400^™	PKMS	LANSA^™/Visual LANSA
JD Edwards World^®	HFA^™/Friedman	ProGen Plus^™
Lawson	Infinium^™	Subversion for OS/400
PathFinder	JBA^™	*Optional interfaces licensed separately from TurnOver.
TurnOver PDQ^™	JDA^™
Version Manager^™	JHA^™
WebSmart^™	MAPICS
	Island Pacific
	Kronos
	Movex
	Premenos