Working notes from real z/OS engagements — Endevor-to-Git migrations, DBB builds, IDz performance, code pages, and mainframe CI/CD. The same knowledge we bring to yours.
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
Why is your company dragging its feet to update the corporate desktops or laptops? If you are a CFO, or CIO, you are not getting the most out of your application developers, software engineers, and systems administrators. In fact, you’re paying your staff to watch progress bars. You are also more likely to lose the … 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
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
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
In june we presented on these best practices based on our expertise and experience in deployment to our clients. This is by no means a complete picture, and will certainly vary by client. However, once you read the presentation, you should have a better understanding about how best to roll out the clients. IBM i … Read more
Rational Team Concert gets more and more traction in the industry. It is a collaborative application lifecycle management product that allows a team of developers, project managers, designers, testers, analysts, executives, and stakeholders to work in unison. It works in harmony with other DevOps concepts such as: Continuous Release and Deployment Continuous Testing Application Monitoring … Read more
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
This year at the IBM Innovate conference we presented several topics. One of which was on HATS web services and RDBMS integration points with the product. In the presentation we cover details on creating a web service from a System i 5250 application using nothing but the HATS macro and web service wizards. [slideshare id=22924090&doc=makinghatsastrategicinvestment-pwr1212-130613094949-phpapp02]As … Read more
In preparation for the IBM Innovate conference starting this June, I’ve put together some helpful advice to newcomers who’ve not been to one of the conferences before. By no means is this a complete list, nor is it an official list. Its MY list. Enjoy: What to bring CLOTHING: Well, first off, this is Florida. I live … Read more