From: SkippyPB on
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:06:03 -0500, "Michael Mattias"
<mmattias(a)talsystems.com> wrote:

>"William M. Klein" <wmklein(a)nospam.netcom.com> wrote in message
>news:Pqh3k.145781$RG7.49472(a)fe09.news.easynews.com...
>> If you are talking about either IBM mainframes (with 3rd party add-on
>> products) or Micro Focus (when running with IBM emulation, you should
>> check out the "Panvalet" (or was it Librarian) feature...
>
>Woo, Panvalet. Now there's a word I haven't heard in a while. (OK, so I
>haven't worked mainframes in a while, either).
>
>But I do recall that nearly every mainframe shop I worked in had Panvalet
>installed. However, only one such shop (Allstate Insurance) actually USED it
>in any way close to its designers' intentions. All the other places it may
>as well have been "just another Partioned Dataset"
>
>MCM
>

I've used Panvalet for years in my client's shops and it was used as a
source library and audit facility to track changes. Now days Endevor
is the preferred tool for that sort of thing in my client's shops.
Some also use Changeman.

Regards,
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