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Rocket Aldon
Lifecycle Manager (IBM i Edition)

Maximize Efficiency with Automated End-to-End ALM and DevOps

¢ Streamline the entire Rocket Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and DevOps
development process,
solutions simplify and automate every aspect of the software
boosting productivity and
efficiency development and delivery process. From gathering, routing, and
¢ Simplify the preparation prioritizing change requests to the deployment and promotion of
process for documenting
application releases and updates, Rocket® Aldon Lifecycle Manager
compliance
for (IBM i Edition) helps reduce errors and improve productivity,
¢ Reduce the complexity of
the deployment process facilitates collaboration, and simplifies audit compliance with

¢ Ensure that your DevOps regulatory and best-practice standards. With Rocket Aldon
workflow processes are Lifecycle Manager for the IBM i platform (LMi), your change
enforced
management and deployment processes become predictable,
¢ Increase software quality
scalable, and repeatable.
levels
 Streamline your entire development process,
boosting productivity and efficiency
Rocket Aldon LMi streamlines your entire development workflow and establishes repeatable, automated change management
and compliance processes. It helps you improve productivity and efficiency by automating and managing everything that
happens in the software development lifecycle from the time a change request is received until the time the solution is
delivered into production.

Simplify audit Visibility through

Management
Operations Control
and Audit
Application Deployment
and Release Management

preparation and Dashboards

Across all enterprise
platforms
Internal
Deployments

simplify

Process Automation and Compliance

Version control

compliance
Continuous
Integration
Build verification test

documentation
Public & Private Cloud
Clouds Deployments
and
Provisioning
Integration
With Aldon LMi, IT teams can quickly
and consistently adhere to internal audit
Enterprise App Store / Enterprise
Testing
and regulatory compliance standards in Constant
Feedback
VPP/ Public App Store /
Company Web
Mobile
Deployment
and
parallel with the software development Server
Management

process. They can configure system- Production

enforced process flows to ensure that
components automatically pass through Figure 1: Rocket Application Lifecycle Management solutions help IT teams manage and automate
everything that happens from the time the need for a software change arises to the time a solution
the defined phases, and that company is delivered and verified.
policies and government regulations are
enforced.
Figure 1: Rocket Discover 1.6
Cognos TM1 Dashboard
Highly granular configurations for user permissions and development environments support segregation of duties throughout
the software development lifecycle. Aldon LMi reduces the administrative burden on developers by logging all actions and
automating compliance requirements. This lets IT staff focus on what they do best: developing quality applications to solve
customer problems.

Reduce the complexity of

When the SOX [Sarbanes-Oxley] your deployment processes
auditors heard we had Rocket Aldon LMi Deployment of applications and files is usually a manual—and
in place, they checked off the first 10 error-prone—process. Rocket Aldon LMi works with the Rocket ®

boxes, knowing we were already in Aldon Deployment Manager (licensed separately; see page 4 for
accordance. I think that says it all. description) at each stage of the lifecycle to gather, package,
distribute, and install application components. The management
Glen Thompson console lets users carefully track and govern distributed packages.
Senior Manager
Big 5 Sporting Goods
The “Work with Objects by Release”
panel displays a list of objects
associated with an application release,
in a format familiar to developers. The
list shows all objects from all libraries
included in the application, eliminating
the need to go to each library and
source file individually. Comprehensive
status information is shown for each
object on a single line.

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The Rocket Aldon Lifecycle

®

Manager Web Portal (included with

LMi license; see page 4 for
description) provides real-time
deployment monitoring, backout
functionality, and the ability to view
reports on target computers.

Figure 3: Rocket Aldon LMi Deployment Set Details

It’s easy to show exactly who has

authority to perform specific
operations, simplifying preparation
time for documenting compliance.

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Tech Specs
IBM i Operating System MODULES
Rocket Aldon Lifecycle Manager (IBM i Rocket Aldon Community
®
¢ IBM i V5R4, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 ¢

¢ Installation of Option 30, QShell Edition) belongs to our Rocket family of Manager
Interpreter ALM and DevOps solutions. In addition Unify your service desk with change
to helping protect and extend your IBM i management and requirements
investment, the Rocket family also management using this IT workflow
includes solutions for other common automation solution.
enterprise platforms, including: ¢ Rocket Aldon Deployment
¢ Rocket Aldon Lifecycle Manager
®
Manager
(Enterprise Edition) Automatically package and
Bring enterprise Application distribute application components
Lifecycle Management and DevOps or content files to designated
targets.
automation to multiplatform
development environments, ¢ Rocket Aldon Lifecycle Manager
including Windows, Linux, and Web Portal
Provide the convenience of anytime,
UNIX.
anywhere access from mobile
¢ Rocket Aldon Lifecycle Manager
®

devices, letting users monitor and

(MV Edition) manage change management
Bring enterprise Application tasks, including promotions and
Lifecycle Management and DevOps deployments from mobile devices.
automation and comprehensive
Rocket Aldon Report Manager
®
¢
support to Rocket D3, UniVerse,
Simplify audit preparation with
and UniData MultiValue database
predefined web-based reports
users.
using this automated reporting
¢ Rocket Aldon Lifecycle Manager
®

solution.or content files to

for Mobile designated targets.
Bring enterprise and server
Application Lifecycle Management
and DevOps automation to mobile
development, keeping your mobile
code deployment and server and
enterprise development in sync.

Rocket Aldon Lifecycle Manager (IBM i Edition) belongs to a family of Rocket solutions that
maximize IBM i investments. In addition to helping IT departments monitor and report on storage
environments, Rocket IBM i solutions include:
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• Rocket® Discover, which brings IBM i data to life with self-service BI dashboards. APAC: 1800 823 405
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