MDWorkflow - Advanced Project ManagementWorkflow for IBM i
Ensure Seamless Collaboration Throughout Your Organization
Integrate your enterprise development cycle
Workflow Management Simplified
MDWorkflow is an enforced project management workflow tool for IBM i. Centrally manage projects, tasks, object deployment, and structured workflow across all platforms. It facilitates team collaboration and ensures a documented and well-communicated software development process throughout your organization.
Design Workflow to Fit Your Process
Automate your optimal IBM i project management workflow with the MDWorkflow engine, whether you are using agile, waterfall, or a hybrid of methodologies.
Combining process automation with enforced workflow results in increased efficiency, seamless collaboration, audit compliance, and mandatory decisions by multiple stakeholders for critical steps.
With MDWorkflow, control project flow with status code-based transitions and permissions:
- Specify permitted transitions between status codes to enforce a specific workflow
- Ensure data is captured at specified points in the process
- Block submission, approval, installation, or code promotion until impacted projects/tasks are within the necessary range of status values
- Initiate a change management function such as approvals and code promotion when a project or task status transition occur
- Block the next step in the deployment path until the required users have accepted the test results of the prior installation
Collaboration with CI/CD Pipelines
You can access the power of MDWorkflow with your choice of user interface:
- MDWorkflow web application from any browser and by any relevant stakeholder
- MDOpen developer plugin for MDChange in Eclipse/Rational Developer for i
- Jira Software/Jira Service Desk running on-premise or in the cloud via REST API integration with MDChange
- Bi-Directional integration with Azure Devops, Pipelines, Repos and Projects
- Granular, bi-directional pipeline integration with Jenkins, Bamboo, Gitlab
- Bi-Directional CI/CD Repo integration with Gitlab, GitHub, Git (on-prem), Bitbucket
- Quality gates using SonarCube integration and RPGUnit
- ServiceNow running on-premise or in the cloud via REST API integration with MDChange
Get More out of MDChange with the MDWorkflow Web App
Even when project and incident management are primarily performed from MDOpen or a 3rd party solution, the MDWorkflow web application provides a lot of features to expand your organization's capabilities:
Release Management
- Perform Test Acceptance, Release Approval, and Installations across all systems directly from the browser
- Graphical Release Calendar for intuitive release planning
- Detailed Installation History across all systems
- Rules Engine for versioning and grouping Objects across libraries and folders for one-step deployment of entire packages to customer systems
Reporting and Notifications
- Fully customizable html emails that can be sent automatically or on-demand
- RFP and Task dashboards for oversight of items to be accomplished
- Customizable, on-demand Excel reports for Projects, Tasks, Deployment Releases, Time Entry, and Objects across systems
Richer Project and Task Management Experience
- Comment threads for Projects, Tasks and Subtasks
- Attach documents to Projects and Tasks
- Full-Featured Text editor for descriptions, comments and custom text boxes
- Audit History views for all changes to Projects and Tasks
- One-Click emails to users or groups involved with a Project or Task
- Direct access to Projects, Tasks, and Release Packages from email notifications
The MDWorkflow web app can be run from any web server, including directly from the IBM i.