AllFusion Endevor Change Manager: Fundamentals and Plans

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AllFusion Endevor Change Manager Fundamentals
and Plans

• Application Life Cycle Management
• Session Code ACC21SN

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Abstract

• Come to this session to learn about the latest
  enhancements in AllFusion Endevor Change Manager
  (AllFusion Endevor) 4.0. Computer Associates
  International Inc. (CA) development, support and
  marketing personnel will be on hand to answer
  questions about the product and discuss plans for
  future releases.

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Agenda

• AllFusion Endevor 4.0
• AllFusion Endevor 4.0 SP1
• AllFusion Endevor 6.0 and AllFusion CM
  Enterprise Workbench Candidate Features
• Session Summary
• Questions and Answers

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AllFusion Endevor 4.0

• Became GA December 2002
• Major Features
• Element Registration
• By element name
• By output type (copy member, load module)
• Can prevent processor output overlays

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AllFusion Endevor 4.0

• Long Name Support
• USS Support
• Enhanced ACM Query Facility
• Site-level User-defined Symbolics
• Improved Name-masking
• Placeholders can be used

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AllFusion Endevor 4.0

• ACMQ (where-used query facility)
• Usability improvements
• Automatic where-used notification
• Really, REALLY FAST!
• Quick-edit selection list auto refresh
• EONLY and EPRINT ISPF selection list control
  commands
• (ESORT introduced with 3.9)

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AllFusion Endevor 4.0

• ISPF element/member display
• Element/member name placed at top of display
  (incorporated in temp dsname)
• Package CAST/INSPECT
• CCID validated

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AllFusion Endevor 4.0

• Email Notification Options
• Approver notification at CAST time (3.9)
• Element signout over-ride notification
• BC1PNTFY enhanced to support email
• Completely optional
• Entirely ? or by user (or approver group)

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AllFusion Endevor 4.0

• New Getting Started Guide
• Implementation information
• Sample application
• Frequently Asked Questions
• R4.0 Step-by-step upgrade procedures document
  available

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AllFusion Endevor 4.0 SP1

• Became GA in September 2003
• New CSV List Utility Program
• 4.0 Compatibility Enhancements
• Getting you what you needfaster!
• Enhancements delivered as maintenance (when
  possible)
• Documentation updated with Service Packs

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AllFusion Endevor 4.0 SP1

• Introduction of the CSV List Utility
• Creates Comma-Separated-Value data files
• Element information
• Package information
• Environment definition information
• All date fields, number fields, are formatted
• Driven by SCL-like commands
• LIST ELE , LIST SYSTEM,
• LIST PACKAGE
• Use is limited only by your imagination!

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AllFusion Endevor 4.0 SP1

• Compatibility Enhancements for R4.0
• Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)
• Support for ECF, EIX, long names
• New use reported for PITR!
• Automatic remote site synchronization

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AllFusion Endevor 4.0 SP1

• Automatic Remote Site Synchronization
• As PITR log files are closed
• Automatically ship to remote site
• Run PITR recovery utility there
• Voila A duplicate image of your inventory!
• (Thanks to Tom Bock of Goldman Sachs)

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AllFusion Endevor 4.0 SP1

• Compatibility Enhancements for 4.0
• Unicenter CA-Netman Interface
• Changed to support long names
• Advantage CA-Roscoe Interface
• Changed to recognize and bypass long names
• Use AllFusion CM Enterprise Workbench
• IBM Tivoli Information Manager
• Changed to support long names

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AllFusion Endevor 4.0 SP1

• R4.0 Maintenance
• All SP1 PTFs are available on eSupport including
• Optional PTF to make element registration
  enforced across systems (rather than across
  subsystems)

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AllFusion Endevor 4.0 SP2

• R4.0 Service Pack 2 (April/May 2004)
• Main features
• 255 types 255 DSNs
• API wildcarding on PKG name
• CAST/INSPECT improvements
• Super Users
• Registration across systems

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AllFusion Endevor 6.0

• R6.0 Requirements (planned 12/2004)
• Minimum Features (as planned today)
• Site-level type sequencing
• Single-stage environments

6.0
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Site-level Type Sequencing

• One global definition covers all systems and
  locations
• Simplified administration
• Only types that require sequencing need to be
  defined
• Non-sequenced types can be designated to be
  processed first or last

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Single-stage Environments

• Requirement
• Make AllFusion Endevor life-cycle maps flexible
• Solution
• Allow ADD/UPDATE actions at 2nd Stage

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Single-stage Environments

• Portals!
• With Single-stage Environments
• STGID1,PORTALN
• STGID2,PORTALY

OR
STGID1,PORTALY STGID2,PORTALY
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Endevor after 6.0

• Wish list
• Concurrent action processing option
• Persistent packages
• Multiple signout
• Dynamic approvers
• Etc.

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Concurrent Action Processing

• Will dramatically increase batch AllFusion
  Endevor element action throughput!
• Like breaking up a big JOB into small ones
• You define the number of concurrent action
  processors
• Improves batch, package and AllFusion CM
  Enterprise Workbench throughput

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Concurrent Action Processing

• Today

AllFusion Endevor
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Concurrent Action Processing

• With Concurrent Processing(set to 4)

OR
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Concurrent Action Processing

• Or Concurrent Processing Set To 15

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Concurrent Action Processing

• Actions performed concurrently per type
• Copy Members
• Macros
• C Headers
• Programs
• Links
• When a type is complete then thenext type is
  processed

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Concurrent Action Processing

• To enable and use this feature
• Indicate the maximum number of concurrent
  AllFusion Endevor action processors for your site
  (C1DEFLTS)
• Execute element actions
• Batch element actions
• Packaged element actions
• AllFusion CM Enterprise Workbench - initiated
  actions

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Persistent Packages

• Packages that can be reused
• Goal 1? Once a package is built, it can be
  executed as many times as necessary to complete
  the move into production
• Goal 2 ? Provide an audit trail for all
  executions of the package

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Persistent Packages

• How it works
• Package contains only MOVE actions
• After initial build
• CAST APPROVE EXECUTE
• CAST APPROVE EXECUTE
• (Ad Nauseam)

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Persistent Packages

• CASTing a Persistent Package
• Creates history (audit trail) records
• Adjusts element actions for next location
• Follows normal CAST processing

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Multiple Signout

• Allow and track concurrent ownership
• Signouts recorded in the catalog
• Owners are notified when others
• Signout the element
• Update the element
• Synch errors detected at ADD time
• Parallel Development Option

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Dynamic Approvers

• Approvers on the fly
• Allow the addition of package approvers during
  the APPROVE process
• Any approver may add another approver to the
  package until the package is approved

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AllFusion CM Enterprise Workbench

• Candidate Feature
• CleverPath Forest Trees Visualization

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AllFusion CM Enterprise Workbench

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AllFusion CM Enterprise Workbench

• Other Candidate Features
• Forms Facility
• Added functionality for AllFusion Endevor
• Cross-Platform Impact Analysis
• Provides where-used Info for all platforms

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Session Summary

• AllFusion Endevor Change Manager
• 4.0 provides the platform for future exciting
  features
• 4.0 SP1 provides the CSV List Utility for both
  customized and ad hoc reporting
• 4.0 SP1 also contains the 4.0 version of
  PointInTime Recovery, Unicenter CA-Netman,
  Advantage CA-Roscoe and IBM Tivoli Information
  Manager interfaces

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Session Summary

• AllFusion Endevor Change Manager
• 4.0 SP2 provides 255 Type and DSN support
• 4.0 SP2 provides Super User support to allow
  deleting IN-EDIT packages that are not sharable
• 4.0 SP2 provides API improvements
• 4.0 SP2 provides CAST/INSPECT improvements

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Session Summary

• AllFusion Change Manager Enterprise Workbench 1.1
  introduces a web-based, single-platform facility
  for both enterprise management as well as
  enhanced visualization of your software inventory
• The upcoming candidate features for AllFusion
  Endevor and AllFusion CM Enterprise Workbench
  will significantly enhance the productivity and
  usefulness of your AllFusion products

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Questions and Answers