LANSA and Chrono-Logic Extend Agreement

Published: November 28, 2006

by Alex Woodie

Change management software vendor Chrono-Logic and iSeries development tool provider LANSA have extended their partnership to help LANSA programmers automate the handling and promotion of source code during development, the companies announced last week.

Chrono-Logic, which is based in Montreal, Canada, offers several tools designed to enhance the LANSA development experience. Chief among these is iAM for Development, a change management tool that automates many aspects of iSeries and Windows LANSA development, including task tracking, version control, impact analysis, roll-backs, and code promotion and distribution. Support for native RPG and COBOL objects is supported with LANSA for the Web and LANSA for iSeries, while the automatic creation of DLLs is supported with Visual LANSA, the company's Windows development tool. Other LANSA-supported Chrono-Logic products include iAM Analyzer and iAM for Software Upgrades.

The partnership between LANSA and Chrono-Logic is of greater importance due to the rise of corporate governance laws like Sarbanes-Oxley, says LANSA president John Siniscal. "LANSA is pleased to promote these best-of-breed solutions from Chrono-Logic that provide our customers with the ability to track changes and analyze the impact of planned changes to their LANSA-based systems," he says.