This article will focus on the upgrade process from AllFusion Harvest Change
Manager R7.1 to CA Software Change Manager (SCM) R12.0.2. I am writing this
article because I recently went through this process and felt it would be
beneficial to share this experience with other users in the field. We ran
into some surprises and I wanted other users to be able to use this article
as a checklist of activities to be aware of when performing this upgrade
process.
This process can be pretty straightforward if the upgrade only concerns
upgrading the repository data alone. However, there is a lot of overhead in
this process if you are using Forms, Attachments to Forms, User Defined
Processes (UDPs), Email notifications, Encryption of passwords, Enforce
Package Bind Flags, Verify Package Dependency Flags, Canned Reports or
Customized reports. The project that I worked on to upg... (more)
We discovered PowerGen when we were looking for a command line utility for
importing objects into PowerBuilder. At the time (PowerBuilder V5.0) we were
struggling with a source control system whose SCC-API interface was having
all kinds of trouble with PowerBuilder (as most source control systems did at
the time). As a result we cobbled together our own check-in/check-out utility
using PowerGen's command line operations.
In the course of that exercise we invited the vendor, E. Crane Computing, to
come to our offices and make a PowerGen presentation. What we found out, of
course,... (more)
I am presently the administrator of SCM AllFusion Harvest. SCM AllFusion
Harvest is a process-based software configuration management (SCM) tool for
managing application source code. I manage 121 applications housed in SCM
AllFusion Harvest and support 180 users using the product. The development
tools we currently use are PowerBuilder PBV8, PBV11, Visual Studio 2003,
2005, 2008, Java, and Visual Basic.
As software configuration manager, I provide the administration of the source
code management tools. This includes the entire infrastructure of the
environment for development, f... (more)
Presently, I am the administrator of SCM AllFusion Harvest. SCM AllFusion
Harvest is a process-based Software Configuration Management (SCM) tool for
managing application source code. I manage 121 applications housed in SCM
AllFusion Harvest and support 185 users using the product. The development
tools we currently use are PowerBuilder PBV8, PBV11; Visual Studio 2003,
2005, 2008; and Java.
As the Software Configuration Manager (SCM), I provide the administration of
the source code management tool. This includes the entire infrastructure of
the environment for development, from ... (more)
This article will focus on the PowerBuilder Build Process using E. Crane
Computing product PowerGen with CA Software Change Manager (SCM) R12.0.2. I
am writing this article because we recently upgraded to SCM R12 and it was a
good time to visit our PowerBuilder build process and see what has changed.
I felt it would be beneficial to share this process with other users in the
field. I want users to be able to use this article as a checklist of
activities to be aware of when performing the PowerBuilder build process with
the latest version of Harvest SCM R12 and PowerGen.
Every S... (more)
Al Soucy is software configuration manager at the State of New Hampshire's Department of Information Technology (DoIT). In that role Al manages software configuration for dozens of PowerBuilder applications as well as applications written in Java, .NET, and COBOL (yes, COBOL).
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