Intelligent Application Analysis, Choices In IDE, Personal z/OS Sandbox to accelerate your hybrid cloud application development and delivery with New!Wazi Developer V1.3.
An efficient CI/CD pipeline increases agility, improves reliability, and shortens releases: Let’s begin your journey with this new release of Wazi Developer V1.3 or learn about what’s new to upgrade to the latest version of Wazi Developer that has continuous focus on eliminating the talent gap between mainframe and other platforms opening up a broad pool of available talent, and bringing in a consistent DevOps experience and cloud native techniques to mainframe accelerating release frequency.
IBM Wazi Developer for Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces (IBM Wazi Developer) brings together a comprehensive set of enterprise-wide standard tools and processes with enterprise level support to ensure smooth adoption and minimize risk.
IBM Wazi Developer supports modernizing applications incrementally with three key components such as Wazi Code, Wazi Sandbox and Wazi Analyze along with coexistence framework in your ecosystem until the target state is achieved. With all these key components, an application developer can analyze, edit, build, debug and test their application code as many times as needed and move the application code into their organization’s pipeline seamlessly.
What’s in New!Wazi Analyze V1.3:
- Added new languages for impact analysis - PL/1 and Assembler, in-addition to COBOL
- New format to export your impact analysis - PDF, in-addition to JSON
- UX/UI Improvements focused on developer productivity such as simplified steps for project creation, historical view, improved way of project selection from UI, based on user feedback.
- Added Wazi Analyze APIs, so you can access impact analysis results in the Wazi Analyze server without the web user interface.
What’s in New!Wazi Sandbox V1.3:
- Provisioning instances to a Red Hat® OpenShift® target environment via web UI is available through Provisioning tools.
- New signed installer file for Sandbox license server.
- New getting started checklist for administrator role in your organization.
- Latest mainframe z/OS software stack to quick start your development and test.
- Updated zPDT driver that fixed z/OS and zCX startup issues.
- Certified by IBM and Red Hat against criteria that includes security, quality assurance, and lifecycle management.
What’s in New!Wazi Code V1.2.5:
Wazi Code includes popular choices of IDE such as VS Code (Wazi Developer for VS Code), CRW (Wazi Developer for Workspaces) and Eclipse (Wazi Developer for Eclipse).
Wazi Developer for Eclipse:
- COBOL and PL/I Editors: Content assist in the COBOL Editor now supports proposals after soft keywords.
- z/OS Integrated Development Environment: A new environment variable in the zee.env host configuration file enables a check to see if a data set or member is under SCLM control. You can enable this environment variable to prevent users from altering SCLM-managed data outside of SCLM.
- JCL Generation: In generated JCL, the default space allocation for the SYSLIN DD statement has been increased from 3 tracks to 1 cylinder
- IBM Z Open Debug: Included new language - High level assembler
Wazi Developer for Workspaces:
- Certified by IBM and Red Hat against criteria that includes security, quality assurance, and lifecycle management.
- Refined COBOL Renumber and Unnumber support making it configurable to work with columns 1-6 or 73-80 or both. If content other than numeric values is already present in these locations in a specific row then it will not update that location to preserve the content.
- Fixed syntax highlighting for HLASM beyond column 16.
- Improved performance and reliability of downloading larger numbers of include files such as SYS1.MACLIB macros for the HLAMS editor hovers.
- Removed the performance warning dialog for property groups and replaced it with log messages
- User Build now writes its output into a separate log file for users to share and analyze.
- Adoption of new Zowe Explorer API ICommand to allow issuing of TSO commands using RSE profiles via Zowe Explorer 1.14.0 and higher.
- RSE CLI plug-in updates:
- RSE CLI plug-in now prompts user for credentials for RSE profiles without user and password, during zowe rse auth login command to obtain JWT token, and if RSE API token is expired to obtain new token.
- Fixed a regression that broke uploading a file as a sequential data set.
- Supports OCP V4.7 and CRW 2.8
Wazi Developer for VS Code:
- Certified by IBM and Red Hat against criteria that includes security, quality assurance, and lifecycle management.
- Refined COBOL Renumber and Unnumber support making it configurable to work with columns 1-6 or 73-80 or both. If content other than numberic values is already present in these locations in a specific row then it will not update that location to preserve the content.
- Fixed syntax highlighting for HLASM beyond column 16.
- Improved performance and reliability of downloading larger numbers of include files such as SYS1.MACLIB macros for the HLAMS editor hovers.
- Removed the performance warning dialog for property groups and replaced it with log messages
- User Build now writes its output into a separate log file for users to share and analyze.
- Adoption of new Zowe Explorer API ICommand to allow issuing of TSO commands using RSE profiles via Zowe Explorer 1.14.0 and higher.
- RSE CLI plug-in updates:
- RSE CLI plug-in now prompts user for credentials for RSE profiles without user and password, during zowe rse auth login command to obtain JWT token, and if RSE API token is expired to obtain new token.
- Fixed a regression that broke uploading a file as a sequential data set.
To summarize, IBM Wazi Developer for Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces (IBM Wazi Developer) is a productive development environment which fully integrates into any enterprise-wide standard DevOps pipeline and empowers developers by providing a consistent, familiar development experience for IBM z/OS.
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