CI/CD for IBM Z mainframes
The easiest way to automate your mainframe build and deploy process without breaking the bank
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The time is now to modernize your mainframe and make it truely agile!
A CI/CD system that adapts to you
To match the uniqueness of your company you need a solution that’s easily and quickly customizable. Whenver you need to change.
Stop wasting time
Your teams will be able to focus on their tasks, not on maintaining the tools that should be helping them in the first place.
Release quick, rollback smoothly
Deliver the complete package at the right place or go back cleanly as if nothing has been changed.
Quickly trace all moving parts
“Who”, where, when and what” answered in a snap is what true traceability and transparency is about.
Technicaly, you just need a single tool to make this happen
- Release Automation
- Auto Build / Deploy
- Approvals / Notifications
- Life Cycle Management
- Toolchain Orchestration
- Package based development
- Dependency Management
- Git / Subversion integration
- Use of modern IDE’s (VS Code / Eclipse)
- Parallel development
- Compliance and Security
- Audit / Impact Analysis
- Adopt DevOps Culture
CI/CD process flow for the z/OS mainframe
Developer
Exclusive focus on development tasks, his only responsibilty in the CI/CD process is commiting code into the version control repository.
Kobee
Reacts upon changes in the version control repository by running the build and deployment processes for the changed project.
- Analyzes the project code and generates JCL which is then transferred to the z/OS mainframe for execution.
- Execution results are transferred back and stored by Kobee (for future deployments or rollbacks).
- Kobee links the execution result (build) to the initial commit by tagging the code in the version control repository.
- Kobee updates the Issue Tracker/Requirements system associated entry with execution result details.
- Kobee notifies the developer who commited the code about the result.
z/OS mainframe
The only task for the mainframe is to execute the generated JCL (compile and promote), it is freed from handling complex CI/CD processes itself (historically ran by legacy SCM tools).
Easy to install, scale and use
Kobee for z/OS is bundled with a configuration application (Kobee Resource Configurator) which allows you to quickly set up and customize the solution according to your mainframe environment.
Select what you need, export and Kobee for z/OS will pick up your new configuration. That’s it!
KRC interface overview
Edit z/OS configuration file
Overview models
Edit Assembler model
What you can expect from us
It's best to look before you leap when moving from an old SCM tool to a modern (DevOps) build and deploy architecture. It takes vision and experience to make this new technology fit within the organisation structure and to ensure all stakeholders succesfully adapt to this new way of working
Your People
Your people will be able to set up the solution by themselves, but our experts will help them getting the job done. It’s fairly easy to understand for anyone.
Your Process
It's important that we first get a clear picture of the complexity of your current build and deploy processes. This helps us to define the optimal solution for your company and to draw the roadmap on how to get there.
Your Technology
It’s not about novelty, we want your new solution to work without errors, with the tools you choose, adapted to your way of working.
Antonio Motta - ICT infrastructure manager, RMA (Italy)
"Our goal was to have one product, that managed the whole build and deploy process for all the platforms we used to deliver our IT services.
We saved more than 2/3 on the software maintenance cost."
Jim McGrath - Data Warehouse Manager, Constellation Brands (USA)
"My internal team was excited about the possibilities your software offers and is anxious to hear next steps. Additionally, you should know that I have ensured my team knows the level of effort and support your team has provided.
It is hands down the best support I have seen from any vendor I’ve worked with."
Willy Mutsaerts - Technology Architect and Software asset management, P&V (Belgium)
"Kobee allowed us to modernize our mainframe development as we wanted to use an eclipse based development environment and needed to have a compatible life cycle management solution to replace our current mainframe only version control software.
And Kobee allowed us to interface with the mainframe and has extensive customization possibilities."
Watch Mr. Mutsaerts talk about Kobee:
Jerome Rouil - IT Team Manager, GMF COVEA group (France)
"We did a POC to verify if Kobee could support our different ways of deploying (on different types of platforms), our current way of doing development and the build and deploy scripts we were currently using.
Kobee allows us to work from everywhere, and to reuse existing scripts. We could use our existing security system (LDAP), SMTP for messaging and notifications.
We use Kobee for all our JAVA applications and SAS reporting that are deployed to 30 different locations"
Do you need more information
or do you want to talk about your current situation?
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