Introduction to Node.js on z/OS for Mainframers
Project and Program:
Application Architecture Development and Integration,
LE and Programming Languages
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Proceedings ,
SHARE Virtual 2020 ,
2020
Node.js was introduced 10 years ago. With over one billion downloads, it is one of the most popular projects on GitHub and fastest-growing open-source projects. It is used for web applications and also by the Zowe project for the command-line interface and Zowe Desktop server components that run on z/OS. IBM ported it so you can run Node.js applications on z/OS without the need to have Linux or zCX. Co-location with the data is one of the greatest benefits of running it on z/OS. In this session, you will learn how to install Node.js on z/OS, the key concepts of NPM and developing Node.js applications in JavaScript and TypeScript, how to translate between ASCII/EBCDIC, and how to build native extensions that can use z/OS services. You will see how to access VSAM datasets and use mainframe security in Node.js applications. We will cover the most important packages in NPM that can be useful on z/OS.-Petr Plavjanik-Broadcom; Dan Kelosky-Broadcom
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