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Rocket DevOps
Formerly Aldon

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What is Rocket DevOps?

Rocket DevOps (formerly Rocket Aldon) enables true end-to-end (CI/CD) for IBM i+ environments. Businesses can extend holistic DevSecOps best practices to the IBM i, pursue innovative experimentation, easily respond to compliance audits, and adapt to the ever-changing expectations of process,…

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What is Rocket DevOps?

Rocket DevOps (formerly Rocket Aldon) enables true end-to-end (CI/CD) for IBM i+ environments. Businesses can extend holistic DevSecOps best practices to the IBM i, pursue innovative experimentation, easily respond to compliance audits, and adapt to the ever-changing expectations of process,…

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Product Details

What is Rocket DevOps?

Rocket DevOps (formerly Rocket Aldon) enables true end-to-end (CI/CD) for IBM i+ environments. Businesses can extend holistic DevSecOps best practices to the IBM i, pursue innovative experimentation, easily respond to compliance audits, and adapt to the ever-changing expectations of process, technology, or experience.ructure users need to automate everything from the moment a change request comes in until a solution is delivered to production, as well as automate compliance reporting and audit tracking.

Rocket DevOps helps users to:

  • Establish agile DevSecOps methodologies and processes across a multi-code environment
  • Implement “shift left” testing for true CI/CD
  • Weave security throughout DevSecOps processes via automation and controls
  • Include the tools and integrations organizations need to build end-to-end DevSecOps workflows, from requirement gathering to delivery
  • Enable non-RPG talent to engage and support the IBM i DevOps process

Rocket DevOps Features

  • Supported: Automate your IT workflow
  • Supported: Built-in compliance management
  • Supported: Software release management
  • Supported: Simplified change management

Rocket DevOps Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsLinux
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Stewart Locklear | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Rocket Aldon for managing IBM i development in SQL, CL, RPG, etc. This helps us manage our changes and makes sure we don't overlook related objects when making changes. It is used only by IT. Rocket Aldon helps us keep a history of software changes and is useful for classifying the reason for the change.
  • Software Change Management
  • IBM i development
  • Object relationships
  • SQL object promotions
  • User interface
  • Incomplete error checking
  • Fragmented promotion logs
Rocket Aldon is perfect for simple changes to traditional IBM i development using RPGLE, CL, and DDS. It is great for finding related objects that are referenced in many locations and helping recompile all of these objects.

However, Aldon has a particularly hard time with SQL views. For some reason, it is determined to lock every table related to a view even though this is not required by the operating system. Whenever one view references another view, you are always in danger of losing a view permanently if you didn't check it out and promote it. To clarify, imagine you created a view CUSTOMER_INFO. Then you make another view called CUSTOMER_SHIPMENTS that joins the CUSTOMER_INFO to a shipping table. If you ever change CUSTOMER_INFO and then promote it, there is a good chance that Aldon will delete the CUSTOMER_SHIPMENTS view and you will not get a single warning. It doesn't happen every time but when it does you are going to have a real mess on your hands.
  • Change Management
  • Promotion history
  • Object relationships
  • Software promotion is much easier and doesn't require custom coding.
  • Developers can work collaboratively with less overlap.
  • Developers can find objects faster and research code more thoroughly.
There are not a lot of CMS solutions for the IBM i server. Midrange Dynamics MDCMS is definitely one to consider. It seems very similar to Aldon Rocket and has a lot more functionality. I haven't used it but I have been to a demo and it looks promising. It seems a lot more intuitive and the promotions seem easier. However, that was a demo environment and even then it crashed so there's that to consider....

Support is hit and miss. Sometimes they give some great assistance and sometimes they are no help at all. It always seems like they can't replicate the problem but then they never try to get on our system to do deeper research. It's kind of frustrating dealing with them. Also, the website isn't that helpful.
We paid for normal support because we are a small shop and we don't have a lot of pressing issues. The other thing is that we know how to get the software into production outside of Aldon when we have to get something done. Then we wait for support to help us clean up the mess later.
Yes
We reported bugs related to SQL objects and nothing has ever been done to address the problem. Some SQL objects just seem too complex for Aldon Rocket to handle. We sometimes have to promote these outside of Aldon altogether. It can be quite concerning when we have to make changes to these objects later.
We really haven't had a truly exception support occasion. We have had a few good, experienced technicians who gave us very good support but nothing ever happened that made me think that this was truly exceptional.
February 27, 2018

Rocket Aldon SCM

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Rocket Aldon is used for configuration management and managing our distributed software code.
  • Allows flexibility for user groups
  • Scripting for releasing of code
  • Ease of comparing code versions within the tool
  • Check-in checkout process can be cumbersome
  • UI is crowded and not intuitive
  • Requires in house expertise maintain and manage
Has all that is needed to manage source code for small and medium sized companies.
  • Based on the functionality it provides and for the price paid, it is reasonable
  • Tool integrates well with existing legacy functions for Source Code Management
  • Integrates well with other Rocket Tools
Aldon provides needed functions for our current implementations and legacy systems. As we move toward modernization, we are going to look at alternatives from reviewing cost, integration capabilities and functionality.
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Information Technology Team members use this repository to manage code and migrate it to production.
5
The configuration management team takes care of scripting and creation/maintenance of the software repositories in Aldon.
  • Source Code Management
  • Deployment Repository
  • Integration with Change Management Process
  • In house created components have been integrated with Aldon to assist with the release management process.
  • Maintain Legacy Applications
Based on current integration with our release process, we will need to keep this for the future.
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