TPF Software Update: Meeting Your Current Needs and Building for the Future Thiru Thirupuvanam, Ed Jordan & Jeff Longwell

Contents Tool Directions Eclipse-Based Tools Demos

What Is the Direction of Development Tools in TPF? To determine what tools to build… –We observe industry trends –We cooperate and compete with other vendors –But most of all…We listen to customers Ultimately it is our customers who decide what tools we make If my tools don’t meet my needs, I’ll get other tools! Customer

What is the Customer’s Dream? Private TPF Remote Resources –Private TPF system for every programmer –Full connectivity –And stop the whole system when a mistake is made –All that with next-to-no impact on the VM system Resource Utilization –And rising productivity Productivity

Direction for Development Tools For TPF: An Observation Green-screen Command line ECB Trace TPF Software will be on the leading edge as it has always been CMSTPF (1987) Source-level trace Source View (1992) More highly integrated tools Eclipse-based tools TPF/GI + TPF/IDE for z/TPF Future trends seem to point to greater tool integration for TPF tools TPF/IDE (2000) GUI Edit/Compile GUI Debugging TPF/GI (1996)

Green-screenTPF/GITPF/Eclipse Why TPF Software Tools Should Be in Your Tool Set The underlying “Virtual TPF” technology (CMSTPF) will continue to provide unmatched advantages to the TPF Application programmer –No matter how primitive the original interface was… –No matter how the user interface improves… –No matter what new features or integration abilities are added… –No matter what the future brings UNDERLYING VIRTUAL TPF TECHNOLOGY only in TPF Software tools ?

Virtual TPF Technology Breakthrough Idea Emulate TPF operating system using CMS Major Advantage One virtual TPF system per programmer/tester Program Isolation Database Isolation Productivity End Result 1000 CMSTPF users with minimal impact CMSTPF

Future Plans for CMSTPF CMSTPF z

Eclipse-Based Tools

Eclipse: Quick Overview Language development tools platform Started by IBM, now Open Source Typical uses: edit source code, compile, debug Vendors and customers contribute “plug-ins” to expand Eclipse functionality Potential for cooperation between tools Potential for reduced learning curve

TPF Software Eclipse-Based Tools For z/OS, z/VM & Linux –Source code browsing, downloading –Dataset management (PDS) –Editing –Compiling/Binding –JCL submission For TPF –Low-level debugging (macro trace) –Source-level debugging (C++, Assembler) –Uses Virtual TPF (CMSTPF) technology –TPF/GI features in an Eclipse environment

Eclipse-Based Tool Demos z/OS Navigator TPF/Eclipse

For More Information About Any of Our Tools… Contact… Thiru Thirupuvanam TPF Software, Inc