Practical CICS application deployment using DevOps approach

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Practical CICS application deployment with DevOps

Mark CockerSenior Software Engineer, CICS Development

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Fix an OSGi application, check-in change, automate build and deployment to development

UserRun application suffer bug raise ticket→ →

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Fix an OSGi application, check-in change, automate build and deployment to development

Help deskUse URL host name & IP tools to find server = CICS APPLID IYK3ZMC4

Pass ticket to application help team

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Application support teamFind application in server APPLID search for URI map /dev/demo→

Program JVM server = → → JVMSDEV, Service name = examples.Web.Sample1

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DeveloperCheck out project files, Fix source, Check in changes

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Build engineerDownload & unzipthe CICS Build Toolkit

Understand requirementsand options

Work with developer tounderstand which Eclipseprojects need to be checkedout in order to build

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Build EngineerCreate build definition including properties...

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Fix an OSGi application, check-in change, automate build and deployment to development

Build EngineerCreate build definition including properties, command line...

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Fix an OSGi application, check-in change, automate build and deployment to development

Build EngineerCreate build definition including properties, command line / scripts, build engine, and work with friendly build engineer to setup a post-build deploy to create a new version of a component in IBM UrbanCode Deploy

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DeveloperAutomated build starts or submit manually if impatient wait to complete →

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DeveloperCheck log

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DeveloperIf interested, can check built artefacts by following build external links to new version of the component in IBM UrbanCode Deploy

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Release engineeringDownloads CICS TS plug-in, and uploads to server

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Release engineerWorks with z/OS system programmer to install agent on z/OS (unzip / SMP/E) and connect to UCD server

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Fix an OSGi application, check-in change, automate build and deployment to development

Release engineerWorks with z/OS system programmer and CICS systems programmer to define resource tree and properties that enable reusable / flexible processes

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Fix an OSGi application, check-in change, automate build and deployment to development

Release engineerWork with the CICS system programmer, DBAs, developers, application architect, … to define components, applications, gates, permissions, notifications...

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Fix an OSGi application, check-in change, automate build and deployment to development

Release engineerAutomates the deployment of the application, ...

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Fix an OSGi application, check-in change, automate build and deployment to development

Release engineerAutomates the deployment of the application, or manually deploy to test / if urgent

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Fix an OSGi application, check-in change, automate build and deployment to development

Release engineerCheck the deployment step logs to diagnose issues.

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Fix an OSGi application, check-in change, automate build and deployment to development

Developer / Tester / ...Once notified the deployment is successful, fix can be verified and similar process used to deploy into QA, then to production, an the ticket put into verify with the user

UserChecks the fix works for them closes the ticket→

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