MKS Implementer 2006 Administration Guide

Chapter 3: Implementer Administration
Related Environments
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This function allows you to define the relationship of an environment with other
environments in the form of an ordered list. Implementer uses this list in check out to display
the member/object lists and related objects in an environment. For this reason, related
environment lists are only used by Implementer for production environments, although you
can define them for development and test environments for reference purposes.
The two common uses of related environments are when:
developing one release of an application as changes to an earlier release (release 2.0
based on release 1.0)
modifications to production are in a separate environment from the base production
In either scenario, the related environment list must include all the environments, in order,
that are logically included in the environment being defined. You must also include the
necessary libraries on the environment library list for proper compilation when you define
the environment.
An environment always has at least one environment on the related environment list, the
environment itself. You add additional related environments in sequence number order,
which is the search order you want Implementer to follow to locate a member/object in the
list.
To define related environments
1 From the Work with Environments panel, select the environment with option
14=Related environments, and press ENTER. The Work with Related Environments
panel displays.