Serena Developed it -- well, I know they were working on it and I
had talked with them about a few things.
Short story about this. I have forgotten all the names.
ACS was based in Dallas TX. They thought they knew everything. I
was hired to be a developer for ACS/WYLBUR (they had acquired OBS).
I tried to explain to Dallas HQ that software development should
not be done in a production MVS image. Especially if they had
access to an APF library they could update (which I also happened
to have).
So Serena was doing testing of the startup and shutdown of
Changeman after hours WestCoast. As I recall, we were losing an
address space about every 10 minutes (This was about 9PM when I
noticed it -- just as I wanted to leave for home). I checked the
system and told the SVP (who was still in the office) for our
location that come morning, we would be very short of address
spaces for TSO users.
Dallas HQ said we had to wait until the weekend to IPL, period.
I got told by the SVP that, if I knew any special tricks that
would not leave any finger prints, crash the system because we
would be unable to get into TSO in the morning. Better to IPL and
recover now than have irate customers in the morning.
So I had a short routine that was APF authorized and I set the
Master Sched ASCB to have the Eyecatcher of aSCB. About 10
seconds after that job ran, MVS Loaded a hard wait.
Everyone that looked at the dump was using a 3278 in UPPER case.
So no one noticed the lower case a in the ASCB eyecatcher.
Yes, I had it in writing that I was to do that.
Steve Thompson
On 2/23/2024 11:32 AM, Pommier, Rex wrote:
We use it for change control. We use it for Cobol, assembler, DYLs, JCL CICS
maps etc. Opentext got it when they acquired MicroFocus who got it when they
acquired Serena. IDK if Serena acquired it from somebody else or if they
developed it. It does what we need it to do. I'm not that familiar with it as
it is primarily used by our development staff and one of my cohorts handles its
primary care and feeding.
Rex
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What does anyone know about Opentext Changeman?
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