asked on March 20, 2020

Hello everyone,

I need help finding a solution for our environment. We have over 100 workflow and 6 repositories. We have a very able development team but only 1 person working on LF dev (myself). On our IBM I-series (Which is connected to LF by ODBC connection to files) we can monitor everything and have change management software. 

What I'm looking for is a way to monitor changes to workflows and the database connections to the IBM i-series. Since I'm the only one right now that is easy. Once I have multiple people building workflows and making changes to files on the IBM, I need to have visibility to these changes. 

Currently, the only way for me to know what WF's connect to what files is to go through each one manually and look. If that WF had been updated the day before, I would have no idea. If I change a file on the IBM i-series, I have no idea if that file is being used by WF. 

One thought was an auto-export of the XML files for each WF(not sure that even possible), then scan them for the connection to my IBM box. Then the next day, export and scan again to find changes. This is not ideal in my opinion since I would rather just have a query I could run on the WF DB and then scan the results.  

Has anyone implemented a change management system for Laserfiche? 

Is there an automated way to see all the connections to our database(IBM i-series)?

We have a copy of our environment on dev servers so I have copies of all our workflow and repositories completely separate from our production environment. So ideally we build and test there and then promote to production. 

I have almost an unlimited amount of servers to work with, I'm very lucky in that sense. I think I'm up to 10-12 servers being used in my environment just for Laserfiche. 

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