Endevor

  • 1.  Is anyone using Endevor to manage Z/OS Connect artifacts - Projects, Sar & Aar files ?

    Posted Jan 30, 2019 10:29 PM

    We are new to the Z/OS Connect world and we are looking to use Endevor to store Z/OS Connect Project data. Hoping someone out there can share their experience in this area.



  • 2.  Re: Is anyone using Endevor to manage Z/OS Connect artifacts - Projects, Sar & Aar files ?

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jan 31, 2019 02:43 PM

    Can you provide some details about what this data looks like ? Is it stored under MVS or OMVS ? How is it processed ? Can you use normal utilities to move this date ? Does it require any special programs to process ?

     

    regards,

    Craig



  • 3.  Re: Is anyone using Endevor to manage Z/OS Connect artifacts - Projects, Sar & Aar files ?

    Posted Feb 05, 2019 03:11 AM

    Craig,

     

    We use the Z/OS Connect toolkit – running on a PC or server to generate a API or SERVICE. This stuff is stored in a PROJECT, basically a Directory on your PC containing various files, XML etc,

     

    For example

     

    cics-px-ping is an API project, and pxping is a SERVICE project:

     

     

     

     

    The cics-px-ping.aar and the pxping.sar are in effect the executables which are deployed to the Z/OS Connect server running on the mainframe. So a SERVICE is basically initiating a IMS or CICS program which we currently have under Endevor management. But in this new world we need to store the entire project (service or api) also under endevor – as this is essentially the source code. So we can export

    a project into a zip file – and our thinking is to store that in Endevor, and let an Endevor :

     

     

      1.  Get the Zip File

      2.  Look at the contents of the Zip

      3.  Find the .AAR or .SAR file

      4.  Deploy the .AAR or .SAR file to Z/OS Connect – basically copying this to a ZFS Directory on the server

      5.  Issuing a Refresh command to activate the service or api

     

    So I’m asking the CA world out there of Endevor users also using Z/OS Connect for their experience in this area.

     

    Thanks

     

    Tony Shediak

    Principal Infrastructure Specialist

    Mainframe Services

     

     

     

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