Conference 7.286::digital

Ach!m

  Well, MMS was based on the Unix tool "Make", so that's a good start
  for a "build" environment.

  You may also find rcs a good equivalent to CMS.

  None of these tools are what I would consider "real CASE", though.
  And I'm not qualified to speak about either fusion or cohesion, two
  products that might qualify as "real CASE".

  I'm sure others will have other opinions.

                                   Atlant

	the first product that Atlant mentions is properly known as
	DEC FUSE (note: not Digital yet ;-)...it is a Motif based
	integrated programming environment...it has editors, builders,
	debuggers, code managers etc....see the DEC FUSE SPD and/or
	CLT::FUSE for more....

	the second product is properly known as COHESIONworX (note
	funky capitalization and X for ks sound ;-) which is a
	superset of FUSE...see its SPD and/or SOLVIT::COHESIONWORX...

	there are some additional tools that can be added on to the
	COHESIONworX environment for team programming, collectively
	known as TEAM/SEE...see various SPDs and/or SOLVIT::TEAM-SEE
	and/or {FRMWRK,CADM}::ASD-SEE-PRODUCT as appropriate...

	_kelley

    I don't want to suggest that LinkWorks is a CASE environment but 
    the following does appear to be an interesting tangent...
    
    re roelof
    
Subject: Chronologic-Novacor Release - For Internal Use

          -- For Digital and Digital Partners Internal Use Only --

NOVACOR Chemicals Ltd., a large petrochemicals firm, headquartered in
Calgary, Alberta, Canada is a subsidiary of NOVA Corporation. NOVA also
owns NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. which supplies 20% of North America's
natural gas, as well as a number of significantly smaller subsidiaries.

NOVACOR Chemicals is currently implementing an SAP R/3 application based
upon Digital's Alpha and Oracle7. The project to implement SAP will take
about 18 months and has some 200 full-time staff dedicated to it.

The successful SAP implementation requires a rigorous Business process
decomposition and analysis. The decomposition and analysis is then
translated into SAP's framework. At the end of the project SAP will have
captured and implemented NOVACOR's business process and business rules. To
perform this implementation, NOVACOR's project group has been divided into
12 separate teams which mirror SAP's modules (such as "HR" and "QM") and
are the teams are following the SAP implementation methodology.The project
staff are located in three primary sites; Sarnia, Calgary and Joffre, that
span three time-zones and some 2,000 km. Not all of the staff of any given
team are located in the same centre.

The LinkWorks project was defined to accomplish the following objectives:
    *  Support team operations across space & time,
    *  Support and enforce the implementation methodology,
    *  Provide document management.
       - This point is critical for the roll-up. As the teams complete their
         granular examination each discrete business process will be merged
         into the larger business processes.

Chronologic Systems designed and installed a LinkWorks environment to
support the implementation of SAP within NOVACOR. We constructed template
objects based upon all of their deliverable documents. As well, an
intelligent container system was built to support the business
decomposition and SAP implementation/ testing process. With LinkWorks the
NOVACOR staff have achieved an efficient environment that supports and
enforces their implementation methodology.

In addition to this support of the methodology, LinkWorks provides a
mechanism for team operations. NOVACOR's teams are scattered across several
thousand kilometers of space and three time-zones. The ability to support
team activity was critical. LinkWorks' ability to provide ad-hoc team
formation, formal and informal document routing, and document storage by
type (for example a Key Performance Indicator is treated as an object so
you can search for all KPI's by date, team, etc.) was vital to the overall
success of this project.

Finally, LinkWorks general document management and storage capabilities,
which are based upon business objects and intelligent containers, will
greatly assist NOVACOR as they roll-up their process decomposition across
the enterprise.

The NOVACOR LinkWorks solution was implemented over a very short time-frame
(approximately 4 weeks, including hardware configuration and installation)
by Chronologic Systems Inc. We were able to take their pre-selected
methodology and team structure and prepare a LinkWorks environment that
supported their methodology and teams' structure over this short
time-frame.  Without the object-oriented infrastructure and core LinkWorks
capabilities this project would have taken significantly longer. We were
able to work with the NOVACOR staff, determine their methodology even as
they were finalising it and provide the complete solution in a remarkably
short time-frame.

Following implementation Chronologic trained over 200 users across all
locations and provided transitional support to the NOVACOR IS staff.
Currently we provide emergency back-stop support and on-going directional
support to NOVACOR for this project.

For more information contact:

________________________________________________________________________
|                                                                      |
| Philip J. Doublet, P.Eng.    Specializing in Systems Integration;    |
| Chronologic Systems Inc.     Document Imaging/Groupware; and         |
| 900, 800 - 6 Avenue S.W.     Custom Application Development.         |
| Calgary, Alberta CANADA                                              |
| T2P 3G3                                  ***                         |
| (403)-232-6366      "Helping Canadian Businesses Manage Information" |
| (403)-232-6552 Fax                       ***                         |
________________________________________________________________________

    For your specific requirements ("version/base level control") just buy
    ClearCase from Atria.  Nothing else comes close.  It is now available on
    Alpha UNIX.  It was originally based on the DSSE technology from
    Apollo.

    There is a COHESION integration of ClearCase with the hefty moniker of
    COHESION Team/SEE Using ClearCase.  Product manager is Rob Straight
    (CFSCTC::STRAIGHT).
    
    M

    As mentioned in other notes here, you may want to consider DEC FUSE.
    DEC FUSE has a code management tools that supports both SCCS and RCS,
    which are UNIX standards for code libraries. If you are already using
    RCS or SCCS, you will be able to use FUSE immediately for code
    management. Depending on how you do builds, you may also be able to use
    the FUSE build, which supports gnumake and some flavors of make.
    
    Rich Hart
    

    You can access information about all of these configuration management
    products and coding/software engineering environments as well as a
    number of others at the folowing location:
    
    	http://www.see.tay.dec.com/documents/
    		top level pointers to the COHESION SEE products, DEC FUSE,
    		other products, including configuration management
    		products integrated into the COHESION SEEs, and competing
    		products from other suppliers. I believe all
    		the relevant SPDs mentioned above are accessible within that
    		tree. For UNIX development, the available integrated
    		environments are DEC FUSE, COHESIONworX, COHESION Team/SEE (2
    		variants), SNiff, and Green Hills MULTI. The latter is
    		probably not what you're looking for. For stand-alone
   		configuration and build management tools, there is a wider
    		selection, ranging from SCCS/RCS and make (both in the Digital
    		UNIX C Developer's Toolkit) to more comprehensive tools like
    		the aforementioned ClearCase, PCMS, Aide-de-Camp, and CMVision.
    	        Expect to pay an average cost of $500 - $5000/developer
    		seat for these "fancier" tools.
    
    	http://www.see.tay.dec.com/software_engineering.html
    		General software engineering topics and, where available,
    		summaries of tools available in the market for various
    		design and development activities. The configuration
    		management section may be of particular interest to you.
    
    -Tom

    You shoul also take a look at CCC/Harvest from Softool.
    
    CCC/Harvest is a Client/Server Change and configuration management
    appplication.  It contains:
    
    Configuration Management:
      Release Management
      Concurrent and parallel releases
      Interactive Merge
      Reusable component management
      Emergency maintenance
      Vendor code management
    
    Software Process Automation
      Flexible life cycle modeling
      Project status information
      Automatic notification
      On-line approvals
      Automatic change migration
    
    Built-in Problem Tracking
      User-definable forms
      Problem report to actual change relationship
    
    Support for Client/Server Environments
      Consistent interface on a wide range of platforms
      Central management point
      Support for distributed development
      Platform-independent security
      Open architecture, with choice of relational database
    
    For more information, contact:
    
      Karen Burke-Griffith, MROA::KBURKE, 297-5512, 508-467-5512
    
      Mike Mansbach, Softool Corp, 805-683-577, Fax:  805-683-4105
    
    .../ken 

    Re: .1 - .last
    
    THANK you all VERY MUCH. I'm going to the engineering team to
    discuss/evaluate the suggestions!
    
    	Ach!m