So in today's IBM announcement letter 916-015 it was stated that Breeze for SCLM for z/OS V1.1.x is being withdrawn from service April 30, 2017.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Cloud 9 for SCLM, SCLM Administrator Toolkit, SCLM Developer Toolkit, and SCLM Advanced Edition for z/OS are also being withdrawn at the same time.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 For past Breeze users what did you move to (as it's been withdrawn from marketing for some time)?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. ________________________________________________________________________ _______ Karl S Huf | Senior Vice President | World Wide Technology 50 S LaSalle St, LQ-18, Chicago, IL 60603 | phone (312)630-6287 | [email protected] Please visit northerntrust.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication is confidential, may be privileged and is meant only for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender ASAP and delete this message from your system. NTAC:3NS-20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
