Using IBM Z Open Development

IBM® Z® Open Development is a toolset that provides the core capabilities needed to link z/OS development seamlessly with an established, open DevOps toolchain.

IBM Z Open Development, along with Rocket Git, deliver core Software Configuration Management capabilities such as full isolation and parallel development.

This offering also bundles IBM Dependency Based Build to run Groovy scripts on z/OS®, as well as incrementally compile and link-edit programs from standard Continuous Integration (CI) tools, such as Jenkins.

IBM Z Open Development comes with modern editors, program understanding, and visual debugging capabilities that allow developers to work with code on the mainframe.