Automated Change Management

EXTEND/CCM provides an easy, accurate, and cost effective means of ensuring compliance to your change control procedures. With EXTEND/CCM, the entire change management process is automated, thus enforcing your standards and maintaining complete control over the development life-cycle. EXTEND/CCM manages the development life-cycle from the initial user request, through the check out process from production into development, through promotion to Quality Assurance, through promotion back into production, and finally through distribution to remote production iSeries.

When is your Next Audit?

With EXTEND/CCM you will be able to pass the most stringent DP audit. EXTEND/CCM incorporates the security and change management criteria expected by EDP auditors including:

• Function level security by user.
• Controlled access to production and quality assurance.
• Formalized approval and scheduling.
• Retention of all object authorities and data integrity.
• Modification logs.
• Object and source archive.
• Change activity tracking by project, incident and user request.

The EXTEND/CCM Change Control Environment

CCM separates and controls your development, testing, and production environments. EXTEND/CCM not only enables you to define these environments, but also the actual change controls and standards that your shop must follow when making modifications. What’s more, CCM enables you to define your entire change control environment, including:

• The iSeries containing your development, quality assurance and production environments.
• The libraries containing your development, quality assurance and production objects and source.
• The application systems to be managed and the areas of responsibility.
• The iSeries object authority standards to be implemented.
• The information required on requests for modifications.
• The individuals having access to the change management functions.
• The individuals having access to the application libraries.
• The types of approvals required.
• The types of archives to be performed.

The Advantages Of Multiple Machine Support

EXTEND/CCM is not only the change management solution for single machine environments, it also provides controlled distribution of objects and source to any number of remote iSeries. With EXTEND/CCM, analysts and programmers can perform development on a separate remote development machine. In addition, EXTEND/CCM supports the distribution of production objects and source to any number of remote production machines.

The Benefits Of EXTEND/CCM

Through automated change management, you enjoy a number of valuable benefits which will:

• Ensure adherence to your change control standards.
• Reduce implementation costs and problems
• Minimize programmer overhead.
• Improve coordination of user requests and projects.
• Assure object and source relationships are maintained.
• Preserve object, source, data, and journaling integrity.
• Prevent partial implementations.
• Provide complete managerial auditing.
• Enable complete roll-back through archiving.