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 with third-party tools for change management or version control.
- Separate build machine for Windows deployments, if deploying to Windows too.