IBM Z Open Editor for COBOL and PL/I with Zowe VS Code Extension: A Marriage Made in Heaven - A Story About How Contributing to Open Source Made IBM Product Offerings Better
Project and Program:
Enterprise-wide,
zNextGen Project
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Proceedings,
2020,
SHARE Fort Worth 2020
There are many reasons why you want to modernize your enterprise development platform, such as adopting DevOps practices and integrating the mainframe into distributed build, test, and deploy pipelines; or, refreshing your team’s skill sets and development culture, as the next generation of developers joining your organization is trained on and expects to use these open source development and pipeline tools that are used by the rest of the industry. The Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe has been described and embraced as the key transformative technology that provides the open APIs needed to interact with z/OS and allow development teams to integrate the mainframe in a way that is similar to what you experience on cloud platforms today. Join us in this session to learn how IBM helped shape and then utilized Zowe to build development tools that fully embrace the notion of open API-based integrations. We will in particular focus on the development role with end-to-end edit, build, and test scenarios, introducing the new IBM Z Open Editor, a free Visual Studio Code extension for COBOL and PL/I development. It provides a modern development experience on the desktop as well as in the Cloud running on OpenShift and Eclipse Che, while being fully connected to z/OS using the Zowe VS Code extension. In creating this environment, we not only used Zowe open source as-is but contributed back to the project’s Zowe CLI and Zowe VS Code Extension many of the capabilities and features that we needed to realize our vision. By embracing open development and making Zowe better we were able to make our own editor better, realizing a win-win synergy between open source and commercially supported development. The session will show several examples of how this synergy works for the developers.-Rosalind Radcliffe-IBM Corporation; Peter Haumer-IBM
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