MKS Source Integrity Overview

Your source code's future depends on how well you manage its past. Development teams need to track a project's entire history and rebuild past versions quickly and accurately-with 100% assurance of reliability and integrity-every time. MKS Source Integrity (formerly MKS RCS) does all of this, and leverages your entire team to its maximum productivity. MKS Source Integrity is the most comprehensive software configuration management (SCM) solution for client/server development across multiple platforms.

Powerful new features include:

Complete project management facilities that allow you to create projects in just seconds
Sandboxes to eliminate "free fire" zones
Integration with third party development tools including Powerbuilder, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Borland C++, and more
Visual differencing and visual merging
Unlimited branching and merging
Event Triggers to automate your configuration management process even more
Complete management reports any time you need them
Support for source, text, graphics, binaries, libraries & spreadsheets, and more
Unprecedented Novell NetWare security
Advanced promotion model
Industry leading Make/Configuration Builder
Painless conversion from other source code control systems such as PVCS and SCCS
Configurable file compression and file encryption
Documented API available separately

Project oriented configuration management

MKS Source Integrity is designed to work the same way you do-in terms of projects. Your development team can create a fully functional project within seconds of installation.

With MKS Source Integrity you can:

Track which files are included in each project so important files are never lost or left behind
Know the current version of each file that is associated with the project
See at a glance which files are currently locked for editing and who has locked them
Track dependencies between files and import these dependencies into your make file
Take snapshots of your project and recreate these snapshots at any point in the future

The bottom line

You can easily access all the information you need to do your job. You are in complete control of your entire project- confusion and errors are eliminated.

Team development with sandboxes

MKS Source Integrity is the only PC/PC LAN configuration management system to offer your team the power and flexibility of sandboxes. Sandboxes offer every team member a safe, personalized place to work. Changes to project files are automatically communicated to leverage team development.

Integrated into your development environment

MKS Source Integrity has integrated hooks to give you configuration management functionality right from your familiar development environment. Hooks are available for leading development tools such as Powerbuilder, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual C++, Borland C++, Borland Delphi and more. We've even integrated MKS Source Integrity into File Manager.

Visual differencing and merging

See a side-by-side comparison of two files or revisions of the same file. Lines that have been added, changed or deleted are color-coded so they can be located in seconds. Even merge these changes together with our visual merge!

Complete automation

MKS Source Integrity is the right tool to give you a completely automated configuration management process. Our Event Triggers allow you to configure one MKS Source Integrity event to automatically trigger another. Use our highly flexible promotion model to track your entire development life cycle-you define your promotion states and MKS Source Integrity will keep track of the state your project is in at all times. Even automate your construction process with our industry-leading Make/Configuration Builder, included free with MKS Source Integrity.

MKS Source Integrity reporter

Built-in reporting capabilities provide high quality management reports in minutes. Reports are created in Microsoft Access format (a run time version of Microsoft Access is provided for your convenience), or the reports can easily be imported into any other database.

Real NetWare security

MKS Source Integrity takes full advantage of Novell NetWare security capabilities, giving your source code the protection it deserves. Using our NetWare Loadable Module (NLM), the system administrator determines which developers can access and modify archive files, granting or denying access security.

Multi-platform

A real multi-file, team-based, cross-platform tool, MKS Source Integrity is available for:

DOS HP-UX Windows INTERACTIVE UNIX OS/2 UnixWare Windows NT SunOS SCO UNIX x86 Solaris IBM AIX System V/386 compatible operating systems.

A proven product

Selecting a configuration management system is more than just buying a productivity tool. You are choosing a product to safeguard one of your most valuable assets-your source code. MKS Source Integrity has been on the market since 1987. More than 40,000 professional developers just like you trust their source code to MKS Source Integrity every day.