Our laptops are locked down; I can't install anything that isn't approved and on the local software portal.
Configuration management is via Endevor. If it were my shop I'd probably be considering git. The ISPF level in 79-80 is pretty much irrelevant here, except insofar as it affects interoperability. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2025 11:15 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: IDz support for ISPF External Message: Use Caution On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:03:50 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >IDz is IBM Developer for z/OS, previously RDz. it includes LPEX. > Bad eyes + proportional typeface. I missed the "I". >ISPF has some information in the directory entry, but that's not what I'm >concerned with. I'm concerned with columns 73-80. > There are better ways. Two digits isn't enough. I have worked with a CM product from an IISV which was subsequently acquired by IBM. Coordinated source changes should bear equal level/generation IDs, perhaps SYSMOD IDs. It kept coordinated changes in a single directory and made Build directories containing symbolic links to source files selected by promotion level. A later version supported Windows by making copies instead of symlinks. Users could select editors by personal preference. (It did poorly with editors which returned before Save such as emacs server.) Slick Edit had similar features, including a diff3 GUI interface. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
