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Have any of you evaluated Version Control 7.0? If so, could you share differences, improvements, and problems? Thanks, Ed.

Thanks Ray. This clears up my confusion.

Ed

Hi all. I am hoping somebody who uses Parallel Extender and Version Control can enlighten me on what is meant by the following text quoted from the 'DS 6.0 Version Control Guide', page 4-1: "Note: When working with parallel jobs you will have to set up the required environment variables in each...

Hi, Amos. Thanks! Could you give me some specifics? Which debugger did you use? (Xpediter?, IBM Debug?) Is there something special that you added to the Compile JCL? Did you use the DataStage generated compile JCL or did you use your own? FYI, when I tried Xpediter, the debugger would work until the...

Thanks for your info and tips. I was just fishing for ideas to
add to my personal toolbox. It will be interesting if DS 7.0
enhances debugging. It would be nice if Xpediter, or even the IBM
debugger could be made available to debug custom routines, interfaces to
external routines, etc.

Ed

Has anybone been successful in using a debugger tool for XE/390?
Thanks, Ed

Has anybody been successful in using any debugging tools with XE/390? I tried Xpediter, with no luck. Thanks, Ed

[?]Forgive me for inserting a question in this thread... ...but I just wanted to clarify that DS Version Control will successfully promote between projects (UAT -> Prod), when the projects reside on seperate machines? We are considering using DS Version Control, and that is a requirement which shoul...

Thanks for all of your responses. Your feedback
has been valuable in helping us develop solution
options. I'll post our final solution once it is
completed and running.

Ed

Thanks for all of your responses. All of your feedback provided great discussion points for developing the DS Source Control/Version Control process we will use. It's good to know that the DS Version Control tool has proved very useful. It looks like we will need to develop some custom code to inter...

Has anybody tried using DataStage,(with or without DataStage Version Control, in conjunction with ClearCase for source control (checkin/checkout) and DS program version control? If so, could you explain how you did it and how it is working for you?

Thanks in advance.

Ed

Hi, all. Hope you can share experiences on this topic. Has anybody tried using DataStage,(with or without DataStage Version Control, in conjunction with ClearCase for source control (checkin/checkout) and DS program version control? If so, could you explain how you did it and how it is working for y...