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Git DevOps going on IBM i

2023-11-20T12:53:53+02:007 April 2021|Blog|

A practitioner’s guide to easy CI/CD on IBM i with Git (or, why are you waiting?). I have a question for the IBM i shops out there. What are we waiting for? Why aren’t we doing DevOps yet? I’m going to suggest that a lot of shops fall into the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” category. That’s pretty much been the culture of traditional IBM i shops.

‘True Git’ – the right and wrong approaches to Git on IBM i

2023-11-20T12:54:25+02:002 February 2021|Blog|

Until now, the current change management (CM) tools have dominated the IBM i market providing some elementary versioning of application releases, only ONE version of the source per release. But today the term ‘source control’ - or SCM - has taken on a whole new meaning.

CI for RPG/COBOL with ARCAD and CloudBees

2023-11-20T12:54:36+02:0018 September 2020|Blog|

Similar to GitHub’s relationship with the open source project Git, CloudBees is the company built around the open source project Jenkins.

Unit Testing: Beating technical debt

2023-11-20T12:54:54+02:0019 May 2020|Blog|

In this article we will examine the importance of unit testing in general and assess how relevant the technique is on IBM i.

“Azure DevOps” Rhymes with “Arcad ‘n’ Drops”

2024-04-04T14:56:13+02:0029 April 2020|Blog|

Learn how your IBM i shop can utilize Microsoft’s most powerful development software, aside from perhaps Windows itself. Azure DevOps has existed in some iteration since 2006, but it seems to have hit its stride with the addition of git in 2013.

Why “Git”?

2023-11-20T12:55:17+02:0020 March 2020|Blog|

Git is still generating an enormous amount of buzz. What are the reasons behind its poularity? Is it really justified? And how relevant is Git in the world of IBM i development?

Code review: go automatic!

2024-04-04T11:47:04+02:0028 February 2020|Blog|

SonarQube is the de-facto standard code review tool for many modern languages today. But do you need to automate the same continuous quality checking for your RPG code and CL?

GIT a Jump in Your Step

2023-11-20T12:56:30+02:0025 January 2019|Blog|

Reflections on the rise of Git and the DevOps paradigm on so-called legacy platforms IBM i and z/OS – by Floyd Del Muro, DevOps Advocate

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