Panvalet

Panvalet can be used to manage program source code, JCL, Macros/commands for utilities such as Easytrieve{{cite web

|url=http://www.nwrdc.fsu.edu/mainframe/panvalet

|quote=EASYTRIEVE PLUS macros may reside in the PANVALET library as well as COBOL includes.

|title=Panvalet}} and object module files.

Panvalet was developed by Pansophic Systems in 1969 as a program to store and manage computer program source code on direct-access storage devices.{{cite interview |last=Piscopo |first=Joe |interviewer=Thomas Haigh |title=Oral history interview with Joseph Piscopo |date=2002-05-03 |url=https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107601 |publisher=Charles Babbage Institute}} Before Panvalet code was saved as paper punch cards, typically with 500 to 3,000 cards per program, often 1,000,000 or more per data center. Cards were bulky, difficult to store and transport, difficult and costly to back up, and prone to catastrophic errors since one misplaced card could prevent a program from running correctly.

Pansophic began selling the program in 1970 at a price of $2,880 per copy. It was immediately successful.

In 1978, it was reported that Panvalet, at the time a product of Pansophic Systems, Inc,{{cite news

|newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/27/business/company-news-pansophic-systems.html

|title=Pansophic Systems |date=December 27, 1990}} was in use at over 3,000 sites.{{cite news

|newspaper=Computerworld |author=Don Leavitt |title=Software winners' ranks swelling

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=azxRE2HtSRkC&pg=PA2

|volume=12 |date=27 March 1978 |publisher=IDG Enterprise |page=2 |issn=0010-4841 |issue=13

|quote=The Librarian from Applied Data Research, Inc, Panvalet from Pansophic Systems, Inc. and the Westinghouse Disk Utility from Westinghouse Electric Corp. continue to top the "systems" list with more than 3,000 sites to each of their credits.}}

Throughout much of its existence, the main competitor to Panvalet was The Librarian product from Applied Data Research.{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RW84Vly7V8wC&dq=easytrieve+honor+roll&pg=PA11 | title=Packages Cited In Honor Roll | newspaper=Computerworld | date=August 29, 1973 | page=11}}{{cite news | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Prl9-uRGaAgC&pg=PA19 | title=Tool manages source code | author-first=Charles | author-last=Babcock | newspaper=Computerworld | date=June 16, 1986 | pages=19, 22 }} It had roughly the same number of installations as Panvalet. As recollected by Piscopo, "Panvalet and Librarian basically divided the program library market between the two of them.... Virtually everyone ended up with one or the other of the products."

Computer Associates acquired Panvalet in 1991 when it purchased Pansophic Systems for $390M.{{cite web |title=CA Technologies Acquires Pansophic Systems |url=https://mergr.com/ca-acquires-pansophic-systems |website=Mergr |access-date=2021-09-13}} Broadcom acquired Panvalet in 2018 when it purchased Computer Associates.{{cite web |title=Broadcom reaches deal to acquire CA Technologies for $18.9 billion in cash |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/11/ca-technologies-soars-after-reportedly-nearing-deal-with-broadcom.html |date=2018-07-18 |first=Chloe |last=Aiello |website=CNBC |access-date=2021-09-13}}

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