Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 11:56:32 EDT
Reply-To: Chuck Makinson <clmakinson@GOODYEAR.COM>
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From: Chuck Makinson <clmakinson@GOODYEAR.COM>
Subject: Re: How do you manage customized AF applications?
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At 11:27 AM 4/28/97 EST, Kagan, Jerry wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I've run into a serious AF application management problem. I have an
>application that I've been asked to repeatedly customize for various
>customers. Now I have multiple versions of the same basic application, all
>with minor differences. This is becoming a maintenance nightmare. When I
>make a change in one application, I have to repeat the change, and repeat
>the testing of the change, in every customers version.
>
>I have a tools catalog containing all the truly generic code that can be
>accessed by any application. That helps. I was hoping to use the new
>CATNAME option for the AF command (v 6.12) to concatenate the main (or
>standard) application catalog with catalogs containing only the modified
>entries for each customer. That would have been the ideal solution, but the
>CATNAME option doesn't work (SAS should be issuing a usage note about this
>soon).
>
>I find it hard to believe that nobody else is running into this problem.
> But, I see no SUGI papers about it, and no threads on SAS-L, and SAS says
>that I was the first person to discover the CATNAME bug. So, how are you
>all managing customized versions of AF applications?
>
So I guess that kills my plans to use the Software Configuration Management
(SCM) tool in 6.12 since it depends upon the CATNAME function!
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