Promotion not happening

cfuller · Post by **cfuller** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:41 pm

Hi all

I have an issue that has manifested itself in the last 24 hours, and was hoping someone may have some insight into where I can go next in tryin to resolve this issue.

We are utilising Version Control for all our promotion processes, and up until yesterday all has been going along well. Our promotion hierarchy is as follows -

(Development)
(Integration)
(System Testing)

After making some code changes, I 'Initiaized' my job into VC, all OK. I then went to promote to Integration. I got all the messages advising that the item had been saved, and the process seemed to finish OK, but no compiling message can up. When I checked the target project the file never arrived.

Has anyone seen this sort of behaviour, or have any ideas of where I can start looking?

cfuller · Post by **cfuller** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:43 pm

Sorry...put this in the wrong forum...please move to Server.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:07 pm

For grins, open the job that is inside the VERSION project and see if it is the same job you initialized.

cfuller · Post by **cfuller** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:17 pm

When this started happening yesterday, next thing I tried was to put a brand new job into the project, which 'initiaized' fine...just couldn't promote it.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:21 pm

Just wanted to check as there is a "classic" bug where the job retains the proper initialization name but the contents could be a completely different job. If the parasite job is from another category, then it will promote to that other category and look like it didn't promote when you look in the "right" category in the other project.

Your problem sounds like a new one to me, don't recall it coming up before here.

cfuller · Post by **cfuller** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:28 pm

BTW, have also logged this with IBM / Ascential support, who suggested that I restore the project directory.

The last backup was from Friday night, so we renamed the current directory, and restored from the backup. This seemed to make the 'problem' go away, but I have lost some work in the version control project from Friday evening, and over the weekend.

I will be able to recover this, but I still would like an answer to this issue...restoring and re-doing work is NOT a solution, but I do have to keep development and system testing moving.

Any thoughts, or ideas appreciated.