By adding that repo I was able to upgrade to 1.0.255.

I guess that my original Atelier kit was built on Eclipse Mars, and that the developers recently moved up to Eclipse Neon but the upgrade mechanism didn't cope with this. Okay for a pre-release version of Atelier, but let's hope a similar thing doesn't happen once it's become a released and widely deployed tool.

I don't need it, but my experience is that InterSystems consistently maintains a very high standard of technical and professional competence among its staff, so knowing that the author of a post or a response is a member of ISC staff may be useful to readers.

Additionally, an ISC person may find it helpful in the event that someone whose name they do not recognize as being a colleague posts something that might benefit from follow-up through internal channels.

Think of it as equivalent to the way in which Global Summit badges usually give a discreet indication that the wearer is a company employee.

Glad to hear that System Defaults are working for them. My main gripe with that mechanism is how cumbersome Portal's UI is for making the setting in the right place. Added to that, it's just too easy for someone to adjust a setting directly, filing the new setting into the production class where it (a) overrides the System Default and (b) propagates when the class gets transferred.

Out of interest, are all other settings of the production's configuration items identical between DEV and PROD? Or are you using System Defaults successfully to ensure that, say, hostname/port of outbound target system is different in DEV versus in PROD?

Many Ensemble sites that use our Deltanji source control tool to propagate code from DEV to PROD choose to exclude the production class itself from that workflow. Some maintain multiple variants of the class, e.g. one for DEV and another for PROD, versioning each variant only within its own environment, and using a diff tool such as Beyond Compare (which Deltanji integrates with) to propagate applicable production changes from DEV to PROD.