Zowe Overview - Automation, Testing, and Orchestration

Dan Kelosky Open Mainframe Team [email protected] linkedin.com/in/dkelosky

● Me ● Zowe ● Modern tools - purpose, how, & why I use them ● Answer questions ● Demos ○ test ○ build & deploy ○ CI

● SLIP ● GTF ● HLASM (31|64, Problem|Supervisor, System key[0-7], SRB|TCB) ● Conditional Assembly ● Metal C ● Endevor ● IPCS ● ISPF ● Console commands ● IEASYSxx, PROGxx, etc ● XDC ● RDz

● Android

● Cloud dev (firebase) apps & serverless

● Web development (JQuery, Angular, Node.js, ...)

● Scripting (Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, …)

● Editor extension (Brackets, Atom, VS Code, ...)

● CI (Travis, Circle, Azure pipelines, Jenkins, TeamCity, Drone, …)

UI ML

CLI APIs

https://phpenthusiast.com/blog/what-is-rest-api

https://www.indiamart.com/proddetail/ibm-mainframe-7046896433.html

https://github.com/Netflix/eureka

https://github.com/Netflix/zuul

(unofficial)

● git

● Node.js

● perl

● python

● Symbolic substitution - &SYSNAME. ● Mustache, handlebars - {{ }}

● RDz / Eclipse plugins

● Jenkins plugins

● CI tools

● Hybrid development - TypeScript (Node.js), Spring (Java), C++, Metal C, assembler, makefile, JCL ○ source controlled via git/GitHub ○ delivered through Endevor

● Team members use different editors, diff tools, git clients

● CLI, scripts, and task runner are common pieces

● Python ● Ruby ● Perl ● JavaScript / TypeScript ● Bash / Shell scripts ● Windows Batch ● REXX ● CLIST ● Groovy ● Go ...

● npm / yarn ● gradle ● grunt ● gulp ● make ...

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● JUnit

● Jest

● PyUnit

● RSpec

● Mocha.js

● git ● mercurial ● svn ● ChangeMan ● ISPW ● Endevor

● GitHub ● Bitbucket ● GitLab ...

Jenkins Drone Concourse TeamCity

TeamCity Travis CI CircleCI Drone Cloud ...

TSLint Codecov SonarQube JCLCheck TYPERUN=SCAN ...

● API ML ● Desktop UI ● Commands ● VS Code

● npm run genjcl ● npm run allocate ● npm run upload ● npm run jcl ● npm run test

Drone

● https://medium.com/@dkelosky ○ Mainframe HLASM Continuous Integration Testing with Github and Drone ○ Building Mainframe Metal C and Testing with Jest and Zowe CLI ○ How to Automate z/OS Data Set Allocation Using Zowe & JSON ○ Mainframe Assembler & Zowe: “Hello World” Example

● https://github.com/tucker01/awesome-zowe