NFS seems like a good option if you can deal with connectivity and security
issues.  Are you running Kerberos enabled NFS over IPSec?

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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