For newer CICS developers and system programmers, who may not have grown up with 3270
emulators and C*** commands, it can be difficult to become productive with non-mainframe
tools like VS Code, IntelliJ, or ad-hoc scripting and pipeline automation offerings. This talk will
show how to perform CICS development tasks using familiar form factors like shell scripts and
VS Code. We'll show an end to end demo of building the GenApp and other exemplary
applications using free open source tooling, and also cover Db2 Developer for z/OS and other
free plugins and software tools.

Session Evaluation

I get my CICS enroute Zowe.

Session Evaluation

 Zowe tooling is now used by 40% of mainframe customers to provide their primary interface to the mainframe computing platform, as well as the UI being taught to students worldwide for them to master old and new mainframe languages alike. This talk will focus on the DevOps scenarios around the Zowe CLI, the ease of use of the VS Code and IntelliJ plugins, as well the extensibility of the Zowe SDKs and the Zowe Desktop that underpins the Db2 ecosystem. Zowe is open source and encourages everyone and anyone to get involved and we’ll cover how to do this and share customer success stories of where engagement with the Zowe community has benefited IT organizations and vice-versa.