Change Control Usage Procedures - DCAG

1 Change Control Usage Procedures Release Date: March 18, 2012 Produced by: Thomas Bronack Standards and Procedures Change Control Usage Procedures Page: Section Table of Contents 12. Change Control Usage Procedures .. 4 overview OF Change Control .. 4 INTRODUCTION .. 4 OBJECTIVES OF Change Control .. 5 AUDIENCE .. 5 PREPARATION / MAINTENANCE OF USER GUIDE .. 5 CREATING AN ON-LINE TURNOVER REQUEST .. 6 CREATING A BATCH TURNOVER REQUEST .. 8 Change Control TURNAROUND TIMES .. 8 JOB CARD .. 9 PROC .. 10 CARDLIB.

2 11 SUPPDATA .. 12 SPACE ALLOCATION AND OTHER FORMS .. 13 PROGRAM .. 14 INCLUDES .. 14 COPYBOOKS .. 15 APPENDICES; .. 16 A. STANDARDS VARIANCE REQUEST FORM .. 17 B. TURNOVER CHECKLIST.. 19 C. PROGRAM RELEASE AUTHORIZATION FORM .. 20 D. TAPE REQUEST FORM .. 22 E. DOCUMENTATION MODIFICATION .. 23 F. JOB DELETION AUTHORIZATION .. 24 G. FORMS DESIGN REQUEST FORM .. 25 H. VSAM SPACE ALLOCATION FORM .. 26 I. NON-VSAM SPACE ALLOCATION FORM .. 28 J. DISK GDG FOR DATA ENTRY FORM .. 29 K.

3 RETENTION PERIODS FOR DATA ON TAPE FORM .. 30 Standards and Procedures Change Control Usage Procedures Page: Section Table of Figures FIGURE 1: overview OF Change Control PROCESS.. 4 FIGURE 2: SAMPLE JOB CARD LAYOUT .. 9 FIGURE 3: JOB NAMING STANDARD .. 9 Standards and Procedures Change Control Usage Procedures Page: 12. Change Control Usage Procedures overview of Change Control Introduction Change Control is responsible for the promotion and Control of elements being put into production for both the Batch and On-Line processing done at the data center.

4 This includes the following elements: Jobcards, Procs, Cardlibs, Suppdata (Runbooks), Programs, Includes and Copybooks, which are moved from the quality assurance staging environment to the production environment. The purpose of this document is to explain how to do a Change Control request. Change Control Process JOBCARD PROC CARDLIB SUPPDATA PGM INCLUDES COPY BOOKSTestDataBenchMarkOverrideLibraryJob LibrarySchedulerLibraryEDPS ecurityLibraryManagementDASD managementDisasterRecoveryAutomatedSched ulerAF OperatorRestart / RecoveryValidation/DistrbutionJob Analysis for Flowand Resource UsageDevelopment Quality Assurance TestingProductionOKOKJob JCL Scanning forStandards AdherenceEndevor for Componentand Release ManagementDeltaDeckStage IStage IINo, ReturnNo, ReturnYes, ProceedYes.

5 ProceedChanges toJOB and File Allocations DB2 Binds Element Sign-In s Figure 1: overview of Change Control Process. Standards and Procedures Change Control Usage Procedures Page: Objectives of Change Control This User Guide is meant to: convey how the different types of changes are put into the Change Control process; provide a how to which follows established procedure for doing Turnovers to the production environment. Audience This User Guide is for any employee who wishes to migrate elements from the development to the production environment.

6 This manual assumes the reader is familiar with the mainframe environment facilities, such as TSO, ISPF, etc. Preparation / Maintenance of User Guide This Guide is part of the Standards and Procedures Manual. The Manual consists of two parts: Part I: Systems Management and Controls Procedure Manuals Part II: Usage Procedures Manual The creation and maintenance Procedures are covered in the Maintaining Usage Procedures Manuals section of Part II. Standards and Procedures Change Control Usage Procedures Page: Creating an On-line Turnover Request On-line Turnover requests can be created, updated, displayed for review, approved and closed.

7 Users have the ability to create their own On-line requests, update requests assigned to their departments and review the closing information in the requests. 1. Logon to TSO. 2. Select option: 'N INFO/MAN from the ISPF/PDF Primary Options Menu. 3. Select option: O Change MANAGEMENT AND ON-LINE TURNOVER from the INFORMATION MANAGEMENT panel. 4. You are now at the ON-LINE TURNOVER MENU, this is the main menu for On-line Turnover activities. It consists of an INQUIRIES section and a REQUEST FUNCTION section. Select option: 12 . Enter an On-Line request. 5.

8 You are now at the first of four panels used to put in an On-line Turnover request; the ON-LINE TURNOVER INITIAL REQUEST PANEL; do the following: A) Fill in the 3 required fields: 1. Application name 2. Description 3. Request Impact B) Select option: 4. On-line Application 6. The second panel, the ON-LINE TURNOVER REQUEST ENTRY PANEL, requires the following: A) There are 21 possible fields to use; fill in the 3 required fields and any other fields that support your request. The 3 required fields are: 1. Requester name 2. Delivery name/number 3.

9 Description NOTE: These fields may be pre-filled from information filled in on another B) Select option: 23. Freeform text Standards and Procedures Change Control Usage Procedures Page: 7. The third panel, the FREEFORM TEXT ENTRY PANEL, requires the following: A) There are 7 possible selections; fill in the 1 required field and any others that support your request. The 1 required field is: 1. Element Listing, Description Special Instructions & Backout Plan B) Press the ENTER key 8. The fourth and last panel, the ON-LINE TURNOVER REQUEST SUMMARY PANEL, supports the following: A) There are 13 summary fields populated with previously entered or generated information and 7 selection options.

10 B) At this point in the process, only 5 options apply, they are: 1. Requester data. (return to the ON-LINE TURNOVER REQUEST ENTRY PANEL) 8. Freeform text. (return to the FREEFORM TEXT ENTRY PANEL) 9. Save record. (keep entries, but do not submit) 11. Request ready for management approval. (ready to submit for Change Control ) 12. Cancel request before management approval. (cancel all inputs and do not submit) To complete the process, Select option: 11. Request ready for management approval Standards and Procedures Change Control Usage Procedures Page: Creating a Batch Turnover Request The topics described in this section refer to migrating elements of batch jobs into the production environment.