MKS Implementer 2006 Administration Guide

Chapter 2: Understanding Implementer
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apply a new release from the vendor
Change a Vendor-Supplied Member/Object or Create a New One
1 Check Out from custom Mods production. Developer selects the member/object from a
list of all items in custom Mods production and/or the vendor base production. Check
out automatically determines whether to use the version from custom Mods production
or the vendor base production for each change. Implementer copies the correct source
into development for custom modifications.
2 Develop and test. Developer codes, compiles, and tests the members/objects.
3 Promote the member/object to Mods quality assurance.
Developer promotes the member/object from Mods development to Mods quality
assurance.
Developer can compile the promotion request into the work library, either as a
separate task or when creating the request.
4 Quality assurance.
Tester tests programs.
Tester copies the original promotion request for promotion.
5 Promote to custom Mods production. Administrator for custom Mods production
promotes the members/objects to customer Mods production.
Apply Vendor PTFs
1 Restore the PTF. Use the instructions supplied by the application software vendor to
restore the PTF into a new library (referred to as the PTF library).
2 Check out all items on the PTF and compile. Check out all items on the PTF, from the
vendor base production environment to the vendor PTF development environment.
Replace the entire source and objects with those from the PTF library and compile all
source. Test the PTF using the development environment and the vendor base
application.
3 Check out any modified items included in the PTF. You can identify custom
modifications to any item included with the PTF using Work with Objects. You must
check out each modified item that is part of the PTF as if making another custom
modification. You must have concurrent development capabilities to perform this check
out since the object was previously checked out to the PTF environment. The next step
applies the PTF to the customized version.
4 Merge the PTF into the customized version. Using the Workbench, merge the PTF
changes into the customized member in development. Specify modified development as
the target library, modified production as production, the PTF development library as
enhanced, and the base application library as base. This applies all vendor-supplied PTF