Breeze for SCLM withdrawn from service

[Mosley, George]

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Breeze for SCLM withdrawn from service

[Karl S Huf]

So in today's IBM announcement letter 916-015 it was stated that Breeze
for SCLM for z/OS V1.1.x is being withdrawn from service April 30, 2017.
It's also noted that Cloud 9 for SCLM, SCLM Administrator Toolkit, SCLM
Developer Toolkit, and SCLM Advanced Edition for z/OS are also being
withdrawn at the same time. 

This is interesting timing for us as we had just started investigating
how to provide a "better" tooling environment to encourage/support java
development on the mainframe.  In a greenfield setting the "Blue"
solution would be RDz and RTC.  Not having that luxury (or a whole lot
of $$ set aside for this) we had been looking at a pilot group of some
RDz seats and bringing in SCLM Toolkit to be able to integrate the
developers with SCLM/Breeze and leverage our existing framework for a
more acceptable cost.  With this announcement I'd say that's out the
window. 

So I'm curious about a few things and wonder how others are either
impacted by this or what they've done in the past to accomplish what we
are looking to do:
*   For current Breeze users what are your plans?  For past Breeze
users what did you move to (as it's been withdrawn from marketing for
some time)?
*   Does anyone have a desktop IDE developer setup for mainframes
with code being managed by a mainframe repository & process (SCLM,
Endevor, etc.)?  What are the extra pieces, preferably off the shelf vs
home grown, that glue it together?
*   For those that have gone whole-hog on the Rational solution (RTC
et al) what are your thoughts/experiences?

Feel free to respond off-list directly if you prefer and thanks.



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