A useful relic if you need multiple edit sessions is REXX/CICS EDIT. The editor is more like XEDIT than ISPF but at least you don't need the huge address space that TSO requires.
File transfer up and down to/from PDS and flat file is simple. Since most of my work is in CICS, the toolset is great for TSQ management and simple CICS panel prototyping. I mainly use REXX/CICS to front-end the IBM CICS IVP transactions. In an earlier role, we used Eclipse / Java Apps to build COBOL/BMS and DB2 DDL. FTP was the pull/push method for code. On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 2:34 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/03/2018 9:27 AM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > >> The motivation for the RDz migration was: >> >> a) some problems of isolation of source codes which have been >> checked out from other developers (this has been fixed partially >> in the meantime, and it can be fixed totally by moving all sources >> to the DB2 repository and making the checkout datasets private >> and protected) >> >> b) the hope that younger developers can be moved to mainframe >> development by a more "modern" IDE (but they aren't interested, >> anyway ... they simply don't want to learn PL/1 and such things, >> which they consider hard). >> > > We've been quite lucky that the young guys we've hired have been adaptable > and pick up > the mainframe pretty quickly. One guy we interviewed thought ISPF was cool > in a kind of retro way > like the old 8-bit games that are back in fashion. One thing they all > universally detest is JCL. I suppose > if you come from a bash or powershell background it may seem a bit alien. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
