Case Study: ArcelorMittal achieves streamlined IBM i application maintenance and regulatory traceability with ARCAD Software’s ARCAD-Skipper

ArcelorMittal streamlines its IBM i application maintenance with the ARCAD-Skipper change management solution

ArcelorMittal, a leading supplier of specialty metal products to the automotive industry, faced tight delivery windows (hours to a maximum of five days) and strict UTAC regulatory requirements while managing a sprawling IBM i environment of some 3.5 million lines of source code, ~3,500 programming objects and 60 million database records across multiple sites. Their aging versioning tool left them “literally blind,” unable to trace object lifecycles, provide reliable rollbacks or coordinate multi-site, multi‑lingual maintenance—so they selected ARCAD Software’s ARCAD-Skipper change management solution.

ARCAD Software implemented a centralized Open Repository with ARCAD-Skipper, added ARCAD-Deliver for automated, enterprise-wide deployment and ARCAD-Verifier for integrated regression testing (with plans to adopt ARCAD-Customer help-desk). The vendor’s solution restored traceability and rollback capability, automated recompilation and deployments, and integrated regression testing so teams could enforce a single deployment methodology, protect production more effectively and streamline maintenance across sites—delivering improved visibility, faster, more reliable upgrades and what ArcelorMittal describes as an unprecedented level of efficiency.

ArcelorMittal

Jean-Marie Humez

Database Administrator