Supercharge productivity within your mainframe enterprise
Accelerate innovation using IBM Wazi aaS and Kobee on IBM Cloud with z/OS Dev, Test and Prod
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Faster development, better code quality
IBM Wazi as a Service provides self-serve access to z/OS systems, it enables developers to spin up a z/OS dev and test virtual server on the IBM Cloud in just a few minutes. Shorter development and testing cycles help development teams to respond faster to business needs and improve software quality. Once the code quality is assured it is committed to the Version Control Repository.
Fully automated DevOps
Kobee provides DevOps (CI/CD) and Toolchain Orchestration for the z/OS environment, it monitors the Version Control Repository and will upon codebase change initiate compile and promote processes according to the life cycle of the project. The DevOps processes will run on the on-premise production mainframe.
Modernization is the answer to your Mainframe challenges
Modernizing mainframe development implies using a DevOps solution that supports this modern way of working.
WAZI aaS and Modern DevOps enables you to:
INTEGRATE with modern development tools
AUTOMATE change activities
ADAPT contemporary development methodologies (such as Agile)
DevOps that accommodates both the Business and IT departments
Business requirements
- Enable mainframe to be more responsive to business needs
- Reducing time to market by removing the bottlenecks in mainframe change delivery
- Reduce cost of changes via process efficiency, automation and driving quality by design
I.T. requirements
- Introduce more automation
- Reduce operational costs
- Remove waste from the value stream
- Adopt the process and controls to make releases safer and more efficient
All the features needed to automate your development process in a single application
Customizable Life Cycles
Each project can have multiple life cycles. Each life cycle provides a customizable workflow for automating the activities required to move back and forth in the development/release process.
Automated Build
The framework supports Release and Package-based builds (Distributed and Mainframe). You can have continuous integration (CI), scheduled or forced builds. Once the release is built, it is stored as an archive for later use.
Build types supported:
Full Build, Partial Build, Production-based Partial Build, or tag-based Partial Build.
Automated Deployment
The automated deployment process moves the release or package to the appropriate Test or Production environment. For each solution a dedicated set of pre-defined but customizable actions is used (we call these: "Solution Phases") to automate this process.
Approvals & Notifications
You can make your deployments pre- or post-approval based, and you can also get notified by e-mail of any successful or failed build or deploy.
Toolchain Orchestration
No matter which tools you are using, they can be integrated in your automated lifecycle. Based on the outcome of your tools (passed or failed) a next action will be executed and the information will be logged.
Integrations & Test automation
Most popular Version Control Repositories (Git, GitHub, MS TFVC, Azure DevOps Service Version Control, CVS) and Issue Tracing Systems (Jira, Microsoft TFS, Azure DevOps Services, MicroFocus ALM and GitHub) are supported. In other cases the API can be used to integrate any VCR or ITS. Software tests are automated by triggering 3d party testing tools and evaluating the results.
Compliancy and Security
We enable the use of process standards (CMM, ITIL, Six SigmaTM, Sarbanes-Oxley). User Access Control is handled by your company’s own security system (Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos).
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?
We like a challenge! So tell us about YOUR company and what issues you would like to solve for YOUR development and release process.
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