The SDSF development team have been using git for z/OS for the last 5 years or 
so.

The source code is kept in zFS and our in-house build tool extracts to staging 
PDSEs for the batch submission using jobgroups.

Some of us use SlickEdit rather than ISPF and we can instigate builds from 
there using custom options on SlickEdit drop-down menu.


The builds use SSH from SlickEdit to run simple scripts on z/OS to construct 
and submit JCL.

We use SDSF Rexx to capture build success and failure and can feedback that 
info to the developer via email or straight into the SlickEdit console.

SlickEdit uses FTP as the transport to the zFS source code.

We use Bitbucket for remote repo and Jira for project tracking.

I tend to only use ISPF for debugging and unit testing these days (something 
that would raise eyebrows with myself from 10 years ago).

The power of git on z/OS is quite something to behold, especially the merge 
function.



Rob Scott

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On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 10:47:55 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
>    ...
>  * An IDE such as VS Code, IntelliJ, Slickedit with plugins for
>    mainframe languages and to access the MVS file system.
>
What access vehicle?  NFS?  Other?  I've found NFS very satisfactory.

>  * They don't use TSO or the ISPF editor so there is no need for REXX
>    edit macros etc. ISPF is mainly used for SDSF and submitting jobs.
>
ISPF shouldn't be necessary to submit jobs. The alternatives are better, at
at least in eliminating the antediluvian 80-column restriction.  (Why does
ISPF still impose that?)  I've used FTP, ad-hoc INTRDR, ":w ! submit", ... .
It ought to be a simple Slickedit macro.

No such easy interface from SDSF API to Slickedit via macro, though
I suspect your tribe yearns for one.

-- gil

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