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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
