We were asked by a customer on what components need to be installed on their z/OS LPAR for their deployment IBM Developer for z Systems (IDz). They are also integrating with Rational Team Concert, which as a result, has some additional z/OS pieces to be installed. These are all SMP/e based installs. I get this … Read more
Reasoning We’ve been involved in several large scale deployments of Rational Developer for System z. The product is an incredible piece of software that can drastically improve software development productivity. It also will drastically change your development organization’s culture (usually for the better). However to have the best culture change, you need to be prepared … Read more
I came across this almost by accident when teaching RDz to a customer recently. He wanted to know if RDz can do “column editing” like another text editor he uses, to which I replied “what’s that?”. After he described it it sound like the rectangle selection within the tool, which I knew could change a … Read more
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
This is a view that does not get mentioned enough in the training exercises we do, so we’re mentioning it here for posterity’s sake. If you’re working with a job and trying to understand where your batch job has failed, or if you’re trying to understand an ABEND, there is a built in lookup tool … Read more
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
I get this question often. Yes, you can map your control (CTRL) key on your keyboard to a specific function such as ENTER or RESET in the HCE of RDz. Open your workbench preferences (Window – Preferences). Go to General > Keys > Host Connection Control Keys. You can then map the keys to specific … Read more