I followed this thread quietly for a long time, but now I'd like to ask
some questions
related to our site, if I'm allowed to do so:
- we are PL/1, not COBOL, but I believe that we will have this issue in
the not so
far future too, is this true?
- we have a home grown tool which does the transports of the binaries
into the
different zones mentioned below. In the moment this tool assumes that the
target libraries in all those zones are PDSes, and, more important, that
they
are all of the same type. So for us there is some investment, if they
have to
be converted to PDSEs and if they are different for the different zones
(during
migration time). So this is a project for us, and not a small one.
That's why
I am concerned about knowing early about such plans regarding PL/1.
Thanks,
kind regards
Bernd
Am 20.09.2013 05:37, schrieb Timothy Sipples:
I think that's a good summary, Joel, of some of the considerations in how
to go about adopting PDSEs. Thanks. Though I would point out that many/most
of those considerations are not necessarily *unique* to this particular
compiler upgrade. Juggling multiple libraries and changing build/test/run
processes can happen in lots of other circumstances. I also agree with your
point that change management tooling (and actually using it) is very
valuable. (That's not an advertisement: SCLM is part of base z/OS, as one
example.)
Each shop is probably going to be a little different. To elaborate on some
points you raised, most shops tend to have application/functional "zones"
of one sort or another. As examples, there are runtime zones (batch, CICS,
IMS, DB2 stored procedures, etc.), line of business zones (credit card,
core banking, inventory, ordering, customer service, etc.), LPAR
separations, development sub-teams, and so on. What I'm calling a "zone" is
some specific vector of COBOL program separations, e.g. "Zone ABC1" could
be { LPAR MVSA, batch, customer service, account inquiry applications,
Kansas development team }. Some zones are "big," and others are "small,"
but the point is there's some logical separation in practically every shop.
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