The Open Mainframe Project (OMP) announced this week that a long-term support (LTS) edition of Zowe, the open source integration platform for mainframes running z/OS, is now generally available. Announced at the virtual Open Source Summit, this edition of the framework for integrating administration, management and development tools based on web technologies will not be […]
Compuware Shifts Mainframe App Testing Left
Compuware today announced it is making it easier to shift application performance testing further left on to the shoulders of developers by adding support for a REST application programming interface (API) to its application performance management (APM) platform for mainframe applications, along with a plug-in for Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments. Sam Knutson, vice […]
Compuware Extends Alliance With CloudBees
Compuware has become a premier member of the CloudBees Technical Alliance Partner Program (TAPP), as part of an effort to accelerate the adoption of best DevOps practices in mainframe environments. Sam Knutson, vice president of product management for Compuware, said his company has already developed six plugins for the open source Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery […]
IBM Advances DevOps on the Mainframe
IBM has expanded its efforts to bring DevOps best practices to the mainframe by adding automated unit testing capabilities for CICS COBOL programs using Db2 to IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) V14.2.1. The company is also making an instance of z/OS available within a Docker container that can be deployed on an x86 platform. Sanjay […]
TDD, Unit Testing and the Mainframe
Unit testing is like exercise: Companies know it’s good for you and you should do it, but given their druthers, they’d rather avoid the effort and just get to the benefit. I wish I could say it’s otherwise. After all, making unit testing a standard practice in a company’s software development process is probably the […]
Why Legacy Application Development is a Challenge
Enterprises seeking to modernize their legacy mainframe applications often cite the key reason as not being able to evolve quickly enough to support the changing needs of the business. This is also a driving force behind the increasing trend toward moving these legacy applications onto other platforms, either by attempting to rewrite or re-platform them. […]
To Build a Healthy DevOps Culture, Look to Your Ecosystem
How do you do DevOps? Here’s a hint: Don’t fixate on finding the right tools or implementing the right processes. Instead, think about the broader ecosystem in which you operate, the culture that prevails in that ecosystem and which parts of the culture you can borrow to help enable your DevOps transformation. This is true […]
BMC Extends DevOps Reach to Db2 Databases
BMC Software is extending the reach of its campaign to bring DevOps to the mainframe to the IBM Db2 databases that run on the venerable platform. John McKenny, senior vice president, ZSolutions Strategy and Innovation at BMC, said BMC AMI DevOps for Db2 makes it possible for DevOps teams to automate changes to the Db2 […]
IBM Extends z/OS Toward DevOps Again
A few months ago, I wrote about the release of Zowe, the first Open Source project based on z/OS. Zowe is a framework for including z/OS in your applications with less pain than we have traditionally suffered. IBM supported this project as part of its view that enterprises need to have interoperability between platforms. This […]
Compuware Advances DevOps on Mainframes
Compuware has updated its Topaz for Total Test suite to enable organizations applying best DevOps practices to the development of mainframe applications to combine unit, functional, integration and regression testing within a single test scenario. In addition, Compuware is making it easier to test multiple applications simultaneously. The latest update to Topaz for Total Test […]
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