Hi All,

we are working with EGL compiling to cobol in our shop. We are deploying the result by hand basically: after generation, a librarian moves the load/dbrm to the different regions (test regions, prod). We want to make this whole thing change incorporating builds. What we ideally want is after we deliver a change set and librarian put it to uat/prod stream, we initiate a build which builds the packages in the change set and delivers to the appropriate region

As we have tremendous amount of packages in our components we would like to build only the affected apps, which feature seems to be available with z/OS dependency build, but as i understood that requires e.g. cobol source in RTC rather than egl.

I wonder if anybody has experience with builds in general regarding EGL (with Cobol target).

Any help appreciated.

Hi Daniel,

I don't know if you found it by now but there is a entry on our EGL Blog on this general topic I found very good via:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/3e2b35ae-d3b1-4008-adee-2b31d4be5c92/entry/using_rbd_build_server_for_rtc_builds?lang=en_us

Take a look and let us know if it helps you any, if not I would recommend to create a support case and we will be happy to try to assist further.

Hi Mark,

thank you for the resource!
In the meantime we started to wrap EGLSDK and assemble a command file in it to pass. Currently we experiment with RTC plain java API to get a list form files that need to be generated. Lets see how far we get but i am quite confident.

Thanks again for the help!

Daniel