On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:13:04 -0600, Ray Pearce wrote:

>We have also been looking at a similar issue here at Macro 4 but with a 
>slightly different approach for our mainframe development.
>We now use Subversion as our source repository, Eclipse as our IDE and we 
>utilise Apache Ant and Jenkins for our development and production builds.
>However we do not use USS, we use z/OS for our compiles and assemblies – and 
>this works for all of our languages; Assembler, Cobol, PL/1, C, REXX, Java, 
>etc.
>We have the advantage that some of our products already have a z/OS STC as 
>part of their installation and this STC has APIs allowing us to move the 
>source from our workstations to z/OS, submit the JCL for the compiles, 
>assemblies, etc. and capture and return any output and listings etc.
>
We used to do a lot of that.  NFS has liberated us from a lot of file shuffling 
-- files
appear alike on our desktops and on z/OS.  We discarded our STC.  ISPF 3.17 is
your friend.

>By using z/OS it meant we could reuse all of the build JCL that we already had 
>in place which was a big help with the transition. 
>
I could imagine makefile recipes that (tailor and) submit JCL.

-- gil

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