(Cross-posted VSE-L, VMESA-L, Assembler-List) Just received my Enterprise Tech Update and it had an item about IDEs for the mainframe:
* Tech Talk: Eclipse — Welcome to the Future of Mainframe Development by Jim Liebert. Eclipse has come to the mainframe and is likely to change the way programmers accomplish work for years to come. http://entsys.me/1n1qk I have used Eclipse in the past. (Took a few Web Development classes at the local college.) But, I never looked at it from a "Mainframe Development" point of view. I am currently doing all my assembler development (mainly VSE) on a pc using the Dignus assembler, then transporting the objects to be linked on VSE. I would like to get some feedback from anyone who uses an IDE for mainframe development, specifically for COBOL and Assembler coding. For example: How are you handling the change from a 3270 style editor to a pc style editor? I currently edit my pc stored mainframe assembler code using XTHE (The Hessling Editor) because it works like z/VM's Xedit. Every time I have attempted to use a PC based editor, it just does not seem to have the flexibility I find with Xedit. Especially, the ability to use home-grown prefix-area macros. Also, column positions are so important to COBOL and Assembler and it seems that most pc editors are designed for free-form source like C or java. Have you found decent IDE plug-ins for your languages? Is the time right for moving to a pc based IDE for mainframe development? Tony Thigpen -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Tech Talk & CICS Transaction Gateway Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:30:42 +0000 From: Enterprise Tech Update <newslet...@enterprisesystemsmedia.com> Reply-To: Enterprise Tech Update <newslet...@enterprisesystemsmedia.com> To: <t...@vse2pdf.com> Welcome to the Enterprise Tech Update, your weekly resource for IT in the world's largest multiplatform enterprises. .........
