Technical Advantages

TurnOver is noteworthy for its unified, efficient approach to iSeries-centric, multi-platform change management. We leverage the latest technologies to bring you unique features that save your developers time, reduce risk, and improve software quality. Check out some of the technology behind TurnOver:

Single-Server Solution
Single Audit Database
Low Impact Implementation
Flexibility and Openness
Robust Promotion and Recovery
Enforced Workflow
Productivity Tools
IBM iSeries Roadmap Support

Single-Server Solution

A key technical advantage to TurnOver is that the entire solution runs on the iSeries. That means lower operating costs, less administrative overhead, and a far lower risk of your issue tracking or PC development getting out of synch with your iSeries development.

Single Audit Database

TurnOver's secure, reliable iSeries database consolidates all information regarding software changes to any of your applications, regardless of platform, into one place. Auditors can easily follow a sample set of changes through the entire lifecycle to make sure they were implemented according to policy.

Low Impact Implementation

You can implement TurnOver over your existing library structure for native development, greatly reducing implementation time. It supports any number of development and test environments. Built-in wizards walk you through the application set-up process. A graphical application designer helps your developers understand at a glance how an application is defined and managed, and makes set-up maintenance simple.

Flexibility and Openness

With TurnOver, team members don’t have to compromise functionality to support an enterprise-wide software management process. You are never locked into a specific user interface because all interfaces access the same database. For example, you can start a change in WDSC and, for whatever reason, choose to complete it in 5250 without losing work.

Use TurnOver's many APIs to easily add custom processing and integrate the tools you already have into its framework. TurnOver works with dozens of utilities such as Hawkeye’s Pathfinder™ and ASC's Abstract™, development tools such as LANSA™ and AllFusion 2E™, and most vendor applications that run on the iSeries.

Robust Promotion and Recovery

TurnOver's promotion process revolves around its reliable promotion form – a simple concept with powerful capabilities. The form ensures that a change is promoted correctly every time by using TurnOver's error checking and cross-referencing, and by remembering every detail of the promotion – including pre- and post-run commands and creation overrides. It lets you recover all, or just a portion, of a change, and it can even be restarted if a job is cancelled by mistake or interrupted.

Of course, the best way to control risk is to test your process as well as your code. TurnOver uses the same process to promote changes into your test environments as it does to promote them into production, greatly improving the chance of successful implementation.

Enforced Workflow

TurnOver lets IT managers define and implement specific workflow procedures and authorities across all collaborating departments for greater development efficiency and cleaner audits. Because TurnOver enforces your rules through all supported interfaces, developers and other team members participate in the workflow model from their native environment, whether green screen or graphical, with no additional client software.

Productivity Tools

You'll find a rich array of productivity enhancers scattered throughout TurnOver, as illustrated by these few examples:

Only with TurnOver can you test your changes and the complete compile process without moving anything out of your WDSC workspace. You select the group of objects you want to compile, and the Compile Wizard does the rest. The wizard organizes the compile and puts everything in the right order automatically. It handles all the details for physical files and checks for dependent objects as well as custom compile commands. Everything you need is created in development for you, ready to be tested.

TurnOver includes built-in, procedure-level ILE Cross-Reference Support. 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 automatically finds and rebinds all related programs and service programs.

TurnOver’s Synchronizer™ lets you retrofit your custom modifications into new vendor releases. Its three-way source compare and merge helps developers understand the impact of a new release quickly and implement it with your in-house changes, keeping your applications thoroughly up-to-date while saving substantial time and effort.

IBM iSeries Roadmap Support

Last, but not least, SoftLanding lives and breathes the IBM iSeries Roadmap in our own product development, and we optimized TurnOver to manage that work. We are in a unique position among change management vendors because we understand what our customers experience when they update their applications and expand into multi-platform technologies. We know firsthand what tools will make the process easier.