1.4.1 Recommended IBM i Development Model

The recommended IBM i development model is a Visual LANSA Slave to an IBM i Master System.

The features of this development model are:

• The primary target platform is IBM i.

• Development is primarily IBM i in-house.

• A change management system or a version control system third party tool is used on IBM i.

• This model can also be used for Windows development.

These are the requirements for this development model:

• Multiple partitions for staging
  For details, see System Partition Definitions in the LANSA for i User Guide.

• Task tracking and security
  For details, refer to Task tracking in the LANSA for i User Guide.

• Repository Synchronization
  For details, see Repository Synchronization in the LANSA for i User Guide.

• Interfaces to third party tools for change management or version control.

• Separate build machine for Windows deployments, if deploying to Windows too.