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Network Concepts, Inc. 2020
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Information for
Control
users
Control is an established product for version control and source management,
but are you tethered to your office with command line techniques?
Control-CS connects to your server, uses the existing Control files, and
empowers you with the world of modern tools for software development.
It also allows you to work remotely when needed.
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Control-CS is a Windows based client app that uses TCP/IP
sockets to connect to the matching server side background
process.
It co-exists with current CONTROL command line processes and
uses the same secure archive database, requiring no changes to
your existing way of working.
The fundamental differences are that CS has a modern visual
interface, is designed to run remotely and has a much larger set
of features.
Control-CS
Cross-Platform Software Management System
HP NonStop
NSK/OSS
HP-UX
Windows Server
Linux
IBM-AIX
SOLARIS
Cross-Platform
Control-CS works with Nonstop as
well as most UNIX based systems.
In addition to simply connecting
to different servers, it assists in
deploying files from one
development server to other
production servers.
CS can do all the functions that
CONTROL can, but at the same
time has many addition features.
It is designed to let you to
continue doing all your
development on the server.
Or you can convert to developing
directly on your Windows
machine by checking files out
and in directly to and from your
PC.
Existing Control
command line
Fundamentals
• Control deals with 2 spaces
• Protected Archive of files and
versions
• User space (on the same system)
where actual source files exist
• Control’s major functions
• Check-in files to the archive which
record a specific version
• Check-out files of a specific version
• Multiple user spaces are the norm
• All functions are command line
Control
Protected Space
User Space
Datafile Datafile
Catalog
Datafile Datafile
Catalog
Datafile Datafile
Catalog
Global
Repository
Control-CS Fundamentals
User Space
Control-CS
Server
Protected Space
Datafile Datafile
Catalog
Datafile Datafile
Catalog
Datafile Datafile
Catalog
Global
Repository
Control -CS
Client
• Used in parallel with Control
• Same Protected Archive
• CS major functions
• Client runs on Windows
• Visual interface
• User space can be:
• Same system as server
• Local PC
• Different server
• Additional features allow work
directly on your workstation
• Many additional features not
possible on command line interface
TcpIp
Connection
Visual , Intuitive, Friendly
Archive
(left)
Work
(right)
• Specific version of Archive
matched with user files
• Produce button begins
check-out
• Submit button begins
check-in
• Example shows
• Latest version of archive on
NSK
• Work on local PC
• Automatic filename matching
• Colors to indicate version
state
• Indicator to show version
relative timestamp
Same interface - any workspace
• Example shows
• Same Archive
• Work on NSK
• Virtual folders
mapped to NSK
Integration
• Used in parallel with Control so no migration needed
• No changes to your current operation
• Easy Installation
• Download from Internet
• Installation of server on PC
• Generates install TACL script from wizard
• Transfers script to PC
• Final installation done by executing script on server
• Installation of Client on Users PC’s
• Standard PC installation
• 64 and 32 bit variants
• Client Has extensive help and tutorial guidance to assist in get
started quickly
Live Example of edit cycle
Here’s a live example of making changes using PC based tools.
The first file is a standard source file where the latest version is
Produced for edit’
This creates a copy from the server archive to the workstation. Clicking
edit
starts your favorite editor (for that type of file). When complete,
Clicking
Submit
creates a new version. We see the difference in the
version again with PC tools.
The second file is done in similar fashion but in this case it is a Word file.
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