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Manages process of moving application software components from development to production Concurrent development Multiple testing levels/environments Auditing capabilities Multiple approval levels

The Change Management Process involves the following steps:

1) Creating the Package 2) Checking out the Components 3) Staging the Components 4) Promoting the Package 5) Auditing the Package 6) Freezing the Package 7) Approving the Package

Work area that will carry the changes from development to production. All information needed to install a particular change to the production environment-grouped together to form a change package

Information required to create a package:

Application Type (Simple, Participating, Super or Complex) Planned or unplanned Temporary or permanent Installation date & time Primary and backup contacts

Simple: Changes are unrelated to other packages. Participating: Changes are related to other packages. Complex: Contains one or more participating packages. Change in one package is used by other packages.
eg. Copybook change is required by other programs in another

package.

Does not contain components. Super: Same as complex

Planned Permanent Planned temporary Unplanned Permanent Unplanned temporary

Date and time fields indicate when the package will be installed once it passes through the full approval process.

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Checkout option is used to checkout existing components (ie. previously installed)from the baseline or components currently being tested from the promotion libraries. Checking out from baseline, chose from: Current production version ( 0 ) Previous version (-1 previous version, -2 two versions ago) Contd.

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Stage option is used to bring in components from outside of Change Man, Edit/Delete/Browse components, and Stage components. Dev option allows you to bring in components from outside of Change Man

Package/Parms options take you to the Stage Work Area. Package brings up the a list of all components in the package Parms provides a Selection Panel to specify what type of components to list

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Promotion:

Moves a package from Staging to a Promotion Level or from one Promotion level to another Can be done at Package or Component Level Package must be fully promoted before any partial promotes or demotes can be done.

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Demotion:

Moves a package from a Promotion Level back to Staging where more changes can be made
Can be done at Package or Component Level Recorded under Promotion History

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Audit function is used to inspect the Change Package staging libraries in comparison to the baseline libraries It is used to produce an audit report and to alert of any potential conflicts or problems. Must pass Audit before you can continue with the change process (pass: cond code <= 8) Contd.

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When is an audit done?:

Can be done at anytime in the change process Must be done before a Freeze (explained in next section) Must be redone if any of the Components in your package change since the last audit was performed.

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Freezing a package: Changes the status to frozen (FRZ) Prevents further changes from being made to it Makes package available for:
Approval process, System, Acceptance and Quality Assurance Promotion Levels

Requires that: All components have an ACTIVE status Package passed the audit process contd.
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Revert is used to unfreeze a package that has not started through the approval process Packages in the approval process must be rejected before they can be reverted Individual components can be unfrozen without reverting the package

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Update is used to update package information (information requested when creating the package). Information only updateable when the package is in Development (DEV) status

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Query is used to get information about the packages and components in Change Man Query at the package level or the component level Query option is used to find out information about packages, components and the relationships between them

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