Does Renaissance support a Software Development Life Cycle?
Yes. Renaissance allows you to have any number of environments, each of which can represent stages of a project’s development life cycle. At CoralTree we have a development environment, a module testing environment, an acceptance test environment and a production environment. Renaissance supports this for both the standard System i objects (pgms, files etc) AND the IFS resources. Developers can have their own unique (or shared) development libraries and IFS folders. Once this has been specified in their developer preferences, Renaissance will load and use IFS and System i resources from their development libraries (if found) and the rest from production. This means that you can modify a stylesheet, HTML file, javascript file, RPG source, DDS source etc etc within the development environment and unit test it before promoting to the next level. We use a product called SEE/Change from Thenon to create our development libraries, but you could just as easily use other “change request” or “t
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