z/OS Dataset Considerations for Migrating from Endevor to Git
Moving from Endevor to Git with IBM DBB is the right time to reevaluate your z/OS dataset locations and naming conventions. Here is what to consider.
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How to enable licensing in IBM Developer for z/OS and ADFz
Overview IDz is offered in three different packaging options. Overall, its the exact same client, but the licensing differs considerably. First, let’s discuss how these packages flesh out: IBM Developer for z/OS This is the “base” edition, and is common for smaller companies (well, smaller compared to say a global bank). It includes editing, analysis … Read more
11 Team Concert Behaviors You Should Use for Enterprise Extension (z/OS) Projects
We have worked with several customers in the past few years, and have come to a general consensus on the minimum operation behaviors that should be enabled in your Team Concert project. These that we have listed are in additional to any you may already have (rather than a replacement of them). These also do … Read more
InterConnect 2016: Tips for Developing and Testing IBM HATS Applications
This is from our presentation at the InterConnect 2016 conference in Las Vegas, February 2016.IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) can dynamically transform your terminal-based applications into rich web pages. It is highly customizable and built on Java EE technology. We discussed some lessons learned from a very (very) complex HATS engagement. We also … Read more
Making IBM Rational HATS A Strategic Investment
Here is another presentation we did a the IBM Innovate conference in June 2014. Using HATS to create web services from 5250 or 3270 terminal applications is a common use case for HATS. You can also consume services either in the interface (i.e. RESTful or JSON), or through HATS macros or Business Logic (i.e. custom HATS … Read more
The Caffeinated Mainframer: Using Java on IBM z/OS to build enterprise Java apps
At last year’s IBM Innovate Conference (formerly the Rational Software Developer’s Conference), we presented this deck about using Java on the z/OS mainframe. Since that time there have been a couple of major releases of the IBM Rational Developer for Enterprise product and at this year’s conference there will be extensive coverage of version 9.1 … Read more
Innovate 2013: Software Archaeology on the Mainframe with IBM Rational Tools
Another posting of ours from this past year’s IBM Innovate Conference, and mentioned on the Mainframe Insights blog. Software Archaeology with RDz and RAA from Strongback Consulting ©2016 Strongback Consulting
New JES features in Rational Developer for System z 9.0.1
Job Entry System The JES now shows the return code of completed jobs. This saves you significant time in tracking down which job completed, which abended, and which had other issues. You will see this in the JES filters. Also for JES, you can now resubmit directly from the context menu. Ordinarily you would just … Read more
Helpful commands to manage RD&T z/OS instance from the linux command line
If you are using the Rational Development and Test product, you are likely in one of two camps: 1) you are a systems programmer with minimal linux expertise, or 2), you are a linux admin with nominal z/OS experience. Certainly there are people who are gurus at both, but those are rare birds indeed. You … Read more
Refactoring COBOL with RDz
What is refactoring? Refactoring has long been a discipline of the agile development world. Wikipedia defines refactoring as: “A disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior…. [and its] advantages include improved code readability and reduced complexity to improve the maintainability of the source code, … Read more