CloverLeaf Change Management Practices

[David Hahn]

We at Trinity are looking for better ways to insure change management when working on TCLs, Translates, etc.  

Does anyone have an opinion to share, methodology or commercially available product to perform formal change management practices?

Feel free to e-mail me at hahnd@trinity-health.org

Thanks,

🙂

Dave Hahn

Manager of Integration

Trinity Health Care

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[Michael Hertel]

I don’t have an answer to your question, but…

Did you know v 5.4.1 keeps revisions of changes of tclprocs now too?

I was cleaning up some of our sites and stumbled across this.

Kudos to development for doing this. I no longer have to manually back up my procs before making changes.  😀

[Ga]

Hi Michael,

Yes, 5.4.1 keeps revisions of changes of tclprocs.

Ga

[Richard Hart]

Guys.

We perform almost all of our translation code in TCL and have many sites sharing code.

All our code displays the current RCS ‘Id’ at startup.  We have standards for site and thread names,

We use a Unix link to ensure that all sites point to the same source.  When an upgrade is required, we create a second directory with the same code, plus the updated code and then issue a upgrade command

eg cI:ris:ris_prod:_adt_in:ris_xlate_top:1.51.sh.

This is a link to a command which uses its name to (in this case), process all sites starting with  ‘ris_prod’, change the tclprocs link to ‘ris’; for all threads in this site with name containing ‘atd_in’,  stop and start and verify that the translation script ris_xlate_top os version 1.51.

We also have ‘dummy’ prod sites, so we can verify that the script is working first.

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