Features

This chapter explains the main features available in Enterprise Developer when the AccuRev repository is synchronized with Endevor.

Enterprise Developer combined with direct access to the AccuRev repository provides the developer with powerful access to all sources of interest, as well as auditing and history information about source changes. Furthermore, comparing and merging any source changes done during the development process is fully supported. These capabilities are fully available for a cross-platform development environment where

• The developer wants to make source changes and debug/test source changes locally.
• The developer wants to promote the source changes into a team test environment on the mainframe in Endevor.
• The next promote steps are done in Endevor up to the production stage.
• The developer needs the ability to support emergency changes from the IDE directly on the mainframe.

The following sections describe main functions available in the standard AWM model for Enterprise Sync. Although you may jump directly to a function of interest, the order of the next chapters is oriented towards the development process:

• Creating an AccuRev workspace on your local machine.
• Linking files and folders to COBOL or PL/I projects.
• Locking files in Endevor (sign-out).
• Editing files which are linked to AccuRev.
• Building, debugging and testing the application in a distributed environment (see Getting started with Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Eclipse).
• Promoting files in AccuRev with synchronization to Endevor.
• Testing the application on the mainframe (the supported integration with standard mainframe debuggers like the IBM Debug Tool for z/OS or Compuware Xpediter are not part of this guide).
• Moving files in Endevor up to the production stage while synchronizing the changes with AccuRev.
• Changing files in Endevor (for example an emergency change) and synchronizing this change to AccuRev.
• Analyzing and Resolving conflicts in AccuRev (for example: emergency change done in parallel to the next release change).
• Resolving conflicts when working on parallel releases.