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Jay,
First things first, I should state for the record that I've become a CA bigot, mainly since they acquired or more appropriately hijacked Platinum. If there's one merger that the Fed should have blocked, this was the one. Any company with enough spare cash running around that they can afford to drop several million $$$ for a NHL Hockey Team has one heck of a good reason to get more reasonable on price-per-seat.
As of today, they do have a change management package, of course Oracle's OEM has one as well. The problem with the CA offering is that they intend to incorporate it into their TA-Unicenter offering in the near future such that if you want one piece, you've got to buy the whole enchilada. From my experience they both do the same things and work one as well as the other. The Oracle product is cheaper though, a LOT cheaper.
____________________Reply Separator____________________Subject: Custom Development Management (CA/Platinum's Enterprise DBA) Author: Jay Weinshenker <jweinshe_at_concentric.net> Date: 5/2/00 11:57 AM
Heya.
Normally I wear the hat of an Oracle Applications DBA, and hence have custom development only a peripheral task.
However, on my current project, we are dealing with a large custom development component, and I'm looking to the list for opinions on how we should manage it.
Background.
We are currently 50-60% done with our development. Up until this point,
we've been using Designer as our repository and using it to manage our
versioning and such. The problem we're running into is that we are just
now (I know, I know) beginning to develop a proper promotion environment
for our development. We plan to have our developers have a 'sandbox'
database where they can work on developing their code. After they feel
comfortable with it, we will then promote the code to our Unit Testing
(UTEST) environment where that component is tested. Providing the changes
pass test(s) in the UTEST environment, the changes will then be promoted to
our Integration Testing (ITEST) environment where the component will be
tested with the other components it interacts with. Providing the changes
pass test(s) in the ITEST environment, the changes will then be promoted to
our System Testing (STEST) environment where the component will be tested
as part of system wide operability. Providing the changes pass this final
stage, they will be promoted to our Pre-Production (PPROD) environment
which is the final step.
The project deals with hundreds/thousands of custom packages, tables, triggers, forms, etc. We're finding that Designer isn't doing as well of a job managing everything as we would like it to... that might be due to a lack of knowledge about Designer, I just don't know.
One of the people on the project suggested CA/Platinum's Enterprise DBA package as a way to manage all of this. I have no experience with it, so I'm turning to the lists for advice/recommendations...
TIA for any help you can provide.
J
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