Dave Jousma wrote: >Maybe I'm making a mountain out of a molehill here and over complicating things.
Maybe. Probably. :-) >My architects keep pounding on me that they just want to use the IBM supplied >vanilla copy of the z/OS image, and the DB2 that comes with that. What's wrong with that? If they're going to try to run the bank's production workloads on ZD&TE, that's a nonstarter. But I assume that's not what they're trying to do, because.... >They just want a throwaway vanilla environment. I feel like they think >this is a simple "lets stand up a Linux or Windows" and let them play. And that's usually fine, even more than fine! If developers have better tools, they produce more, quicker, and with better quality. Everybody wins, including especially the bank's customers. Sure, there ought to be a *couple* basic rules. As a notable example, they ought not be using real customer data in their "throwaway" environments, which is really what your security software (CA Top Secret) is trying to protect. That would be contrary to the bank's and customers' security interests. But if there's no sensitive data to protect, rock on! Source code will still be stored and managed according to bank policies (and intellectual property enforcement), and you'll still test, hopefully better and faster. In addition (not in lieu of!), it'd be wise to look at how you provide mainframe services in much more of a self-service/walk-up/instant fashion. You can certainly do that. All of the ingredients are there, usually at no additional charge. For example, you can use the z/OS Management Facility to allow an authorized developer in a development LPAR to provision her own Db2 table with test data using a pre-built z/OSMF workflow, and without any involvement from system programmers, DBAs, etc. Just "I need a Db2 table today for my spur-of-the-moment mobile app idea," and she gets it, immediately, via self-service. When she's done, 6 hours later or whatever, that service is de-provisioned. Everybody wins, except perhaps the FinTech that's trying to beat the bank. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE, Multi-Geography E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
