Remain Software announces their 6.5 upgrade of TD/OMS, a Software Change Management solution for the IBM i platform. The changes include a new interface for Vision Solutions’ MIMIX Promoter called TimeFlash, completely new compile support, GUI and CA 2E interface enhancements. “The upgraded version of TD/OMS will significantly streamline and speed up the software development process, reduce application downtime and improve implementing software changes to a great extent.” – says Wim Jongman, managing director at Remain Software. The TD/OMS 6.5 version is available April 1, 2013.
TIMEFLASH – MIMIX PROMOTER INTERFACE
One of the major changes introduced with the 6.5 version is a new TD/OMS module called TimeFlash which is an Interface for a third party add-on module, MIMIX Promoter (Vision Solutions), also offered by Remain Software. TimeFlash supports the change management of large data files in a live (production) environment. The TimeFlash module streamlines and speeds up the software change process, significantly decreases downtime caused by updating data files and reduces the amount of time needed for deployment. TimeFlash makes data content copying and the final replacement of a file as fully separated processes, all actual data of the file is copied to a separate duplicate of a newer version of the file and all changes to the file are updated into the duplicate. As soon as the file in process becomes available, the original one is set apart and the duplicate will be transferred to the active location.
The majority of the TimeFlash specific process definitions are performed during the Object Transfer process. The interface module consists of a series of exception functions, which can be implemented as Exception or Action procedures to support a vast amount of implementation strategies. The TD/OMS TimeFlash menu enables access to the TimeFlash interface functions outside of the TD/OMS transfer process.
The Apply TimeFlash copy in TD/OMS transfer command is commonly used to start a data copy of a file in active use as part of an object transfer process.
GUI IMPROVEMENTS
TD/OMS users have been able to work with various machines (IBM I, Windows, MAC, Unix/Linux) for some time now, but latest improvement on TD/OMS Graphical User Interface has made their work even simpler. The 6.5 version now makes it possible to generate distribution logs on the receiving non IBM i machine. The log of a specific distribution can be opened from the Remote Job Monitor view, which significantly reduces complexity of working on various machines.
CA 2E INTERFACE ENHANCEMENT
The latest product upgrade includes important changes in the CA 2E interface. When loading components information, the registration can include 4GL 2E model objects of the internal system category. In practice, it means that users can easily get information about relations between internal definitions and 2E objects. Also the Fill Object File command for 2E model objects has been enhanced to define a filter for including or excluding 2E model system objects. All information can be presented in a clear way with the graphical impact analysis module.
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