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z/OS Traditional Application Maintenance and Support

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Published on 16 March 2011, updated 24 June 2011

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ISBN-10: 0738435589
ISBN-13: 9780738435589
IBM Form #: SG24-7868-00


Authors: Jonathan Sayles, Chris Rayns, Vijay Sankar, John Milne, Deena Stein, Debasish Dash and Ofer Pharhi

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    Abstract

    In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we attempt to provide fresh insight into a problem domain that, in the authors’ opinions, has been pushed to the back burner of technology writing for far too long—the domain of z/OS® (traditional) mainframe maintenance and production support. Since the mid-1980’s, outside of a few websites and publications, this still-critical area of software has barely even received lip service by the world of mainstream technology media. In a small way, we are attempting address this situation.

    In this book, we provide information in “what and how to” sections on the value of z/OS maintenance and support—not the value of the software, which is hardly in question, but the value of the software developers, and how they collaborate, analyze, code, and test the applications, fixes, and enhancements under their responsibility. We present new 21st Century tools to help them achieve their goals more easily and effectively. These tools integrate and provide a 1 + 1 + 1 = 5 value-proposition, for companies that are still doing work the way they did when in the mid-1970’s, when Gerald Ford was president of the United States.

    We are also describing, to a lesser extent, how you can effectively integrate the new tools with your existing development software stack, in order to find points of complimentary functionality. And we describe the new agile development and maintenance methodologies, and best practices for tools use and adoption.

    We hope that you find this work useful, and perhaps that it can fuel more discussion, future Redbooks publications, and other publications by IBM, or any vendor or group interested in this critical and vastly under-acknowledged technology domain.

    Table of Contents

    Part 1. Executive summary: Overview

    Chapter 1. Executive summary: Value and investment

    Part 2. The optimized life cycle: Project managers

    Chapter 2. The optimized life cycle: Project managers and implementation teams

    Part 3. The tools in the optimized life cycle: Practitioner

    Chapter 3. Eclipse: The optimized life cycle integrated development environment

    Chapter 4. IBM Rational Developer for System z

    Chapter 5. Rational Asset Analyzer

    Chapter 6. IBM Problem Determination Tools

    Chapter 7. CICS Explorer

    Chapter 8. Reference application

    Chapter 9. WebSphere MQ and the optimized life cycle

    Chapter 10. Business rules

    Part 4. z/OS application maintenance and support

    Chapter 11. Production support use case

    Chapter 12. Trivial Change Request use case

    Chapter 13. Non-Trivial Change Request use case

    Chapter 14. Development on System z

    Appendix A. IBM Rational Developer for System z productivity benchmark comparison

    Appendix B. Additional material

     

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