NuControl

Software life-cycle management
in extended-relational database environments

NuControl is the name of the Version control and Life-cycle management system that is part of the Nucleus environment.

Version and configuration controls
NuControl provides version, configuration, distribution and release controls for program source code, documentation, scripts, HTML, Java script, included segments, procs, data dictionaries as well as the numerous configuration and control items that may be normally modified by a programmer.

Failsafe Library management
Nucleus source code control transparently manages source code libraries, providing redundancy and failsafe controls against source code loss. Nucleus provides a standardized method to roll-back to a prior release or version if required. Multiple programmers can NOT work on the same code within the same file, within the same project without actively passing control and ownership from one to another.

NuControl coordinates the development of complex software systems in environments with multiple programmers, simplifying the management and control of numerous ongoing development projects across multiple accounts.

Promotion / life-cycle controls
Full life cycle management is provided in the promotion of applications and code segments through an ordered progression from development to quality assurance (QA) to production through retirement. Extensive audit trails track every modification. Comparisons are easily made between multiple versions. Numerous development models are supported, including three-tier, four-tier and five-tier models. Compliance and Governance controls

Compliance
NuControl can satisfy rigorous source code control and management requirements for large (and small) user sites, software developers and value added resellers or VARs. NuControl provides key components for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory mandates and reporting requirements.

Failsafe capabilities
Nucleus source code control transparently manages source code in structured libraries, providing redundancy and failsafe capabilities against source code loss. Roll-backs to a prior release or version are supported.

Library management and history
Source code libraries are transparently, maintained providing modification history with account, programmer, version, release, and patch level information along with programmer comments.

Control
The Nucleus environment ensures that multiple programmers can NOT work on the same code within the same file, without actively passing control and ownership from one to another.

Check in/check-out
While a program is checked out, and until it is released, no programmer other than the 'owner' may modify or change it. However, any programmer may view it. Under some circumstances, it may be necessary to have multiple programmers participate in the modification of sections of a monolithic program. Methods do exist for programmers to 'excerpt' subsections of code from a monolithic program, make modifications and then re-introduce these code sections either as callable subroutines or expandable functions.

Account-to-account, and system-to-system promotions are supported. A wide variety of promotion schemes are supported..

Available for most modern extended relational databases (pick/u2) including IBM uniVerse and uniData, D3 from Raining Data, RealityX from Northgate, QM and Open QM from Ladybridge and others. See our availability matrix for details.