MDWorkflow is a flexible, web-based application for centrally managing projects, tasks, object deployment and structured workflow across all systems. It facilitates team collaboration and ensures a documented and well communicated software development process throughout your organization.

Overview
MDWorkflow enables complete visibility of all software changes, with strong emphasis on central approval, scheduling, and tracking of object migrations across all systems throughout the application lifecycle. Organizations gain greater efficiency, improved software quality — with a reliable and repeatable process — and complete traceability of software changes, essential for IT compliance.

With MDWorkflow, information pertaining to projects is seamlessly ex-changed between business groups managing user requirements and technical groups managing changes to specific objects. All parties involved can view the status of projects at any time and are informed when a process has reached specific steps within the process flow.

For example, a business user or team leader may use MDWorkflow
to enter project or issue requests. Users can track requests by status, due date, priority, group, assigned users, programmer and much more. The responsible business group can centrally approve, schedule and track projects and object migrations.

Project information is automatically synchronized across all systems. A report generator provides online, paper or electronic reports that support real-time decision-making and internal and external compliance.

MDWorkflow is an extension of MDCMS change management. It connects with the MDCMS database repository on an IBM i, where the data and business logic for the application reside. Initial installation and set-up for MDCMS and MDWorkflow can be performed comfortably within a few days. MDCMS and MDWorkflow are very user-friendly, so training is also completed quickly.

Companies around the globe are successfully using MDCMS, MDOpen and MDWorkflow to manage, audit and distribute updates for their 3rd party packages as well as their in-house applications consisting of native IBM i and non-native objects.

MDWorkflow Functions
MDWorkflow is a browser-based tool for project management.
Key features include the following:

• Project management
• Task management
• Role management
• Management of testing requirements at each step of the work-flow process
• Detailed History of installed Objects and Object packages
• Object migration tracking across all systems
• Object version and conflict reporting across all systems
• Application version tracking and management
• Graphical calenda
• Scheduler for past and future Installations and tests

Prerequisites for using MDWorkflow

• Java JDK 5 or newer (with Java EE)
• Application Server
• IBM i (AS/400, iSeries or System i) machine with OS/400
  version V5R3M0 or higher

MDWorkflow has been tested on the following Application Servers:

• Apache Tomcat Application Server
• Glassfish Application Server v2 and v3