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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 15, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

UserBuild execution from source code Mainframe remote PDSs

IDz does not allow to execute UserBuild with Cobol programs stored in PDSs directly. That functionality is only allowed in local project source files.

Any developer that wants to execute an UserBuild on a PDS source program will need to:

  • Have a created local project.

  • Copy the program source file and all its copybook dependencies no stored in compilation baseline. This will happen most of the time for copybooks that are under development.

  • If the UserBuild fails, modify again the source file locally or remotelly, each option with its own disadvantages and the clear possibility of human error in the process.

We would want UserBuild to be enabled for direct execution on programs stored in PDSs with the corresponding copybooks impact analisys.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 26, 2024
    Thank you for submitting an idea with IDz, we appreciate your input and suggestions to improve our client experiences. Many of our added enhancements come directly from suggestions from our users like yourself. We?ve spent some time evaluating this idea and have concluded that it is not something that we can provide a solution for in the next two years.
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  • Guest
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    |     May 14, 2024

    The idea is related with how we are planning the transformation process.

    We want developers to get the benefits that IDz offers before completing all the reimplementation of all our current develop, build and deploy processes. Things such as syntax highlighting, copybooks expansion, build and test before commiting a change, etc. give great value that can be used with our current tooling.

    This approach also helps us to test in a non productive environment our reimplementation of the build processes.


  • Guest
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    |     May 14, 2024

    I don't follow the logic of this idea. IDz is a modern IDE created so that a mainframe developer can create/maintain mainframe artifacts such as COBOL programs. To be able to do this a developer would go through the steps of creating a project etc etc... this is what has to happen for them to be able to use IDz to edit source. A developer will want to perform a personal build when they want to build and test the code they have just changed in IDz.

    I don't understand what the scenario is here where a develepor would want to arbritarily build something in a PDS because it would mean they have not modified it via IDz.

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