Configuration Management on the source code focuses on establishing and maintaining consistency of a system or product’s performance and its functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its software life cycle. The Source Configuration Management on the tandem Platform is quite an interesting factor which is well integrated with the HP Nonstop development tools.
Various SCM tools are developed for various environments for different application. They are Sorceress-2, Prime Code and CONTROL. CONTROL is nothing but a file repository and does not help with compilation at all. Sorceress-2 is another purely nonstop based tool which is completely command based but has very good operability range from version control to release management including compilation. Prime Code is something interesting tool which is a window based GUI, helps perform operations at clicks than commands.
The advancement of the SCM for tandem platform will integrated with the Eclipse interface for Control- CS showed it at ITUG in 2009 & 2010.The customer uses Subversion for their NonStop development. There is a free and non-free supported version available. There is also a nice plug-in for Eclipse that allows you to check in and check out source code from your Eclipse desktop



