I don't agree. z/OS isn't the center of the universe anymore. Most sites
run a stack such as Atlassian Jira, Bitbucket etc which are used by both
z/OS and distributed development teams. The integrations are awesome.
Being able to track a bug ticket to changed lines of code is gold dust.
If you don't want to host Bitbucket you can run it in Altlassians cloud
for as little as $100 a year depending on users. I understand that there
are political issues between mainframe and distributed folks at a lot of
sites but that's just BS which should be solved by strong leadership at
the board level. Everybody needs to be tugging on the same rope!
I've successfully deployed Gitbucket on z/OS but I don't see the point
when we have Bitbucket. We also run Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory etc. I
work for Rocket and you would be surprised by how many products that you
use every day that are now resident in the z/OS UNIX file system and
source controlled by Git. We do code reviews in Bitbucket and when we
merge into master Jenkins kicks in to run regression tests, scan code
for vulnerabilities, build ESCROW artifacts etc. If anything fails the
merge is rejected. This is DevOps. It's not just some buzz word or fad,
it's a useful methodology for project life-cycles. It's automation which
used to take a resource to run manually.
On 6/08/2021 10:51 pm, kekronbekron wrote:
So z/OS datasets are still the source of truth, and just a copy is being made
into GitHub for visibility from the outside.
I'm thinking of implementations that work the other way.
Running Git server on Z**, hooking it to GitHub UI / web service, use GitHub
Actions or other release mechanisms to rollout directly into live Z datasets.
I mean live as in.. the way in which we normally do in Z. Just hooking GH into
the usual current procedures/jobs/REXX in Z.
**Noticed that Github Enterprise Server, the thing where you run the GitHub
Enterprise servers yourself in 'your' cloud, or on-prem on VMware or OpenStack
(lol) KVM... can't actually run in Z.
That is, can it even run in Linux on Z, seeing that currently there's only
OpenStack KVM flavour?
Z can run KVM instead of z/OS but who's going to setup KVM just for this.
- KB
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On Friday, August 6th, 2021 at 7:04 PM, Pew, Curtis G
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On Aug 5, 2021, at 11:32 PM, kekronbekron
[email protected] wrote:
I periodically copy over the current libraries and push the changes to GitHub.
Do you mean push to GitHub and then 'build/deploy/copy over the current
(PARMLIB) libraries using some build workflow?
I have a script in my repository that runs commands like “rm sys1.parmlib/*; cp
"//'sys1.parmlib'" sys1.parmlib” (where “sys1.parmlib” is a directory in the
repository.) After running it I commit the changes and then push to GitHub.
It’s not perfect, but I can get some idea of when a change was made or find an
older version of a member that isn’t working right.
Why is it not perfect, what would you want to work better?
“Perfect” would be if git could manage the actual PDS(E)s, but that seems like
a lot to ask for.
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