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ZMF – The Platform for the Future

2 Copyright ©2008 Serena Software, Inc.

ZMF Roadmap 2008/2009

Q4 08 Q1 09 Q2 09 Q4 09

6.1

Major Feature Release• New I/A• Compliance support • Improved admin support• Enhanced workflow• Performance updates • Platform redesign• EGA: November 2008

Major Feature Release• ELS• Java/C++/C• HFS Support• Usability / Other• EGA: Q4 2009

6.2 (Hilo)5.6.3

Maintenance Release• EOL release for 5.6.x• Patch release rollup• Last release of APS

option

6.1.1

Maintenance Release• Patch release rollup• Quick follow up to

6.1


The Crystal Ball

• 250 billion lines of Cobol• 4-5 billion lines of new Cobol

every year• 850,000 Cobol programmers

worldwide• 5% of Cobol programmers retire

per year• 1/4 of Cobol programmers will be

retired in 5 years• Dr. Dobb’s Oct. Issue

They say “old soldiers never die, they just fade away” well “Old programs never die and never go away”


Shifting Trends Favor the Mainframe Again

• Continuous availability is more important in the web world• Security and compliance are top of mind• Server sprawl has drive up the cost of labor• Cost of power is increasing• TCO pressure drives consolidation to virtualized platforms• Growing use of zLinux• Network economics favor consolidation once again• IDC believes Big Blue sold $1.6 billion in mainframes in Q2

of 2008, an increase of 31.7 percent


Z/OS the Platform for the Future

• Near Linear Scale - 900,000+ concurrent users• “Mean Time Between Failure” Measured in decades and not

months• 1/4 network costs• 1/25 floor space • 1/20 energy requirement• 1/5 the administration• Highest average resources utilization - >70% vs < 15%• Highest concurrent workloads • 60% of all System z revenue is driven by new workloads

• Java, Linux, Database, SOA


ZMF the Platform for the Future

• Managing ALL software artifacts for the mainframe environment• Mainframe centric solution

• Supporting enterprise applications• Across all sites and systems

• Evolution not Revolution• Support current application workloads• Support new workloads• Support hybrid applications

• Support new application and workloads• Provide developer transparency • While providing the same change governance that ZMF customers

expect• Impact Analysis• Audit• ZMF package lifecycle

ZMF: Platform for the Future

John SkeltonPrincipal Software Developer, SERENA


ZMF Hilo Overview

• Marching Orders From Marketing/Sales• Integrate Extended Language Support (ELS) into ZMF

• ELS = JAVA, C++, C, ???

• ZMF Process and Control remain intact

• Could we have it next Month?


ZMF Hilo Overview

• Development responds - we need to add the following big ticket items to make ELS viable:• HFS support

• Language specific options

• User Interface / Client Updates

• More than a month


ZMF Hilo Overview

• Disclaimer• Anything subject to change


ZMF Hilo Overview

• HFS Support• Path Names up to 1024 characters

• Component Names up to 256 characters

• Path, Component Names are Case Sensitive

• Impact to almost every ZMF service


ZMF Hilo Overview

• HFS Support• Baseline libraries are defined as HFS

• Lifecycle libraries must be defined consistently.• Staging, Production, Promotion

• HFS tree treated as single ZMF LIBTYPE• Components may include relative pathname


ZMF Hilo Overview

• HFS Support• Baseline defined as /u/src/

• /u/src/actions/foo.java• /u/src/actions/bar.java• /u/src/reports/foo.java• /u/src/reports/bar.java

• Component name(s):• actions/foo.java, actions/bar.java• reports/foo.java, reports/bar.java


ZMF Hilo Overview

• HFS Support• Package Master layout remains the same

• HFS names stored as tokens.

• Component Master moved to LDS from KSDS• LDS access through 1 or more Dataspaces• Variable length keys – we can support any length

• Access to PMAST/CMAST data available through XML Services and WebServices


ZMF Hilo Overview

• Language Specific Options - BUILD• Build jobs may run under BPXBATCH

• Access to USS services

• Simply customize skeletons


ZMF Hilo Overview

• Language Specific Options – Impact Analysis• No change to I/A for existing languages

• C/C++ use event side file created during the build process to generate I/A data.

• Special processing for JAVA - everything is dynamic.

• I/A Data stored in Dataspace (Holyrood)


ZMF Hilo Overview

• Language Specific Options – Audit• JAVA – JAR processing


ZMF Hilo Overview

• ISPF User Interface changes• Minimal changes to existing panels

• Panels permit zoom-in on long names

• ISPF KEYLIST and ZEXPAND


ZMF Hilo Overview

• UI changes – Eclipse• JAVA Development on ISPF = COBOL development using

punched cards.

• Eclipse is the standard for JAVA development


ZMF Hilo Overview

• UI changes – Eclipse plugin• Move existing ZMF integration to Serena Explorer from RDZ

• Rework RDZ interface for existing users

• Workspace/Project integration• Add project to workspace• Synchronize with repository• Checkout/Checkin etc…

• Rename the plugin


ZMF Hilo Overview

• Hilo Requirements• z/OS 1.8 - ISPF File Tailoring – string functions


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