Below is a table of the sites content, eloquently grouped -though a work in progress.
Please note that if a link is not available (“these aren’t the droids you’re looking for…”), the page has NOT been created yet, though, rest assured it will happen, when I have the time and mental ingenuity to conquer it. If you would like to see one of these ‘missing links’ come to fruition quicker, don’t hesitate to contact me and I’ll cover it sooner!
| Group | Description | Blog Title | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | Blog Introduction / About the site | #1 Welcome (first things first) | |
| N1 and the Eclipse IDE – Understanding your sand box (What’s a workspace?) | We’re off to see the IzzarDE | ||
| NaturalONE – Editing, Importing | How do I stow? How do I save? How do I force it to stow (update)? How to unlock mainframe objects | Add NaturalONE basics to my todo list | |
| Edit techniques (Direct on mf, Projects – to existing / Create new = Private library, main library, dev library) | |||
| Editing in private mode and private libraries | Mirror mirror… | ||
| Projects and their role in N1 | |||
| Versioning your code / SVN (Subversion Repository) + GIT (Github…) | I’ve got a bad feeling about this… | ||
| Importing Data Fields | |||
| DDM Editing | |||
| Working Sets, Filters | |||
| Checking Natural Errors quickly (using command prompt with a mainframe mapping or is there a better way): ? (errorNo) | I can’t deal with all these problems in the world! | ||
| Natural One / Eclipse Shortcut keys (plus editing text in eclipse, eg Highlight and hold alt+up) | |||
| NaturalONE – Time for execution | Executing, Debugging in N1 | ||
| How to Execute or Debug in ‘Batch, JCL, Online’ (by mimic in Natural using N1) | |||
| NaturalONE – Deploy, Fire all missiles | Ant Deploys / N2O deploys (+ Open Source) – Environment Migration (and the CI Pipeline) (Deploying – Dev / MF – Ant Script, N2O, Sysobj, copy and paste) | The Grand parade of lifeless packaging | |
| XeNat for modern web N2O deploy | |||
| NaturalONE – Setup, preferences and config | Natural Preferences, searching and setting key preferences + Saving specific config (10.1?) | ||
| Creating and updating an IMAGE for generic install – (see conf page) | |||
| Initial Workspace Setup – Developer Startup (Installing Basic Software for TRIPS/Mainframe Interaction) | |||
| Label References – Replace line number references with labels, Print Margin, Line numbers explained | |||
| Instant searching (all code versioned), Find/Replace ALL, Code Trawling (ctrl+click) | |||
| Creating a dark theme for natural one | |||
| My NaturalONE is broken: Removing errors – Natural Error Messages | |||
| Common problems: Handling of missing objects Read from server – Ensure Runtime is pointing to a valid server for the pull in the project properties for Natural | |||
| Upgrading Natural One | |||
| NaturalONE – Cool new tools and Add-ons (Some rare moon event mentioned…) | Reading natural builder logs Reading Natural One Server Interaction Logs | ||
| Generating services (java) Service Development (Exposing Natural Subprograms as REST Services) | |||
| Compare with… (local history, git version, base library on server) | |||
| Bookmarks, TODO and FIXME indicators + Making your own bookmark/tasks type indicators (Task Tags!) | |||
| Unit testing – RPC Testing, Writing Test Cases | Don’t test me, you’re testing my patience | ||
| Natural – Simple language… right? | Code standards, conventions, best practice and ageless debate | #2 (IF #Standards = true AND #Good-practice = false) THEN Software Conventions := ‘Virtual’? | #EX1 – Natural, Adabas and JCL Code Conventions |
| Use Natural to Consume REST API (XML=ON) – Request Document | |||
| Optional parameters – IS SUPPLIED | |||
| Dynamic parameters in service architecture | |||
| Devops – Incorporating into your work landscape | Linking JIRA, BITBUCKET, CONFLUENCE – Participants will link Git, Jira and confluence content, contribute documentation. | Never break the chain | |
| Git and versioning code – Natural Code / Mainframe?, Branching, Pull and Push Requests. | |||
| CI pipeline structure | |||
| NatStyle and SonarQube for NaturalONE – Quality check | |||
| Automation, incorporating coverage, quality assurance, agile development and deployment | The Grand parade of lifeless packaging (Part two) | ||
| International User Conference | International User group conference summary 2020 | #3 – IUG International (Virtual) User Conference 2020 – “Docker, Docker, give me the news….” | #EX2 – Z/OS Explorer Plugin (NaturalONE / Eclipse) |
