The company where I am working since 3 years now tried very hard to
migrate from
a home grown light weight TSO ISPF based software development platform
(using
CA librarian as source code repository) to the new Eclipse based RDz IDE.
But: no success. IBM could not deliver the solutions we wanted and needed.
RDz means a change of software development paradigm, for example:
nightly builds of the whole application, if some widely used include
files have
changed etc. ...
Instead, we want to control the builds and we want to do very
selective builds, only the necessary parts. Furthermore, we do a lot of
dynamic calls, which doesn't need complete builds of the application at
all ...
etc. etc. ... there was a big list of problems, always growing, when we
got deeper
into the project. In the end, the project was cancelled by the management.
When the project was terminated, we got some small budget to do some
improvements on the home grown IDE. CA librarian had to be removed, because
it went out of service. We replaced this by DB2 CLOB storage, without
changeing
the look and feel of the platform. Some tools like library scan and
source code
compare (which were part of CA librarian) had to be replaced by new tools;
we wrote them from scratch or used tools we already had. We did all this
with
a small team of 5 persons in less than six months, and migrated some 70.000
sources and includes (including 20 years history) in less than two hours.
The CA librarian license is obsolete now, which saves us a lot of money
every year.
The developers are happy, because nothing changed for them, and they were
always happy with the "old" system. It supports not only the development
process, but also the staging (aka transport of the objects into
production).
For example: we have an interface to JIRA; to get an object into
production,
you need a permission from an authorized person on a JIRA story, which is
automatically controlled.
So, short answer: no Eclipse based RDz here; an ISPF based home grown IDE,
which supports FTP and PC editors ... of course.
Kind regards
Bernd
Am 15.03.2018 um 14:25 schrieb John McKown:
As many may know, where I work now is really behind the times. So I thought
that I'd ask here about what is the current methodology for program
development. What I'm really getting at is whether people continue to use
TSO ISPF or have most shops gone to using the Eclipse based "IBM Explorer
for z/OS" (or is it "Rational Developer"? - what about the irrational
developers, what do they use? :-})
Personally, I don't like TSO very much. I like ISPF fairly well. I wish
that ISPF would could be run from a z/OS UNIX shell (the way TSO ISPF runs
under a "TSO shell").
Any good YouTube videos that I could watch? Of course, the problem with
that is that I'm not allowed to "waste bandwidth" watching videos here at
work, so I end up watching them at home (when I do) instead of "Father
Brown" episodes.
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