How The Latest TRs Bolster App Dev For IBM i
Summary
The offering, which combines a lightweight VSCode development environment running in a Web browser along with DevOps tooling from ARCAD Software served up via containers running in a Red Hat OpenShift environment, has spurred an immense amount of interest, says IBM’s Alison Butterill, the longtime IBM i product manager. When IBM shipped Merlin as a Licensed Program Product (LPP) earlier this year, it did so without the benefit of an integrated debugger. IBM can breathe a sigh of relief knowing this crucial capability will become available on December 2, along with the rest of the functionality in the TRs, which is typically delivered via a collection of PTFs. The new additions to the IBM i Development Pack include a new and improved schema browser for the database exploration tool. Developer productivity should go up as a result of several new features, including quick fixes for commenting out unused variables and creating missing variables and procedures; a right-click context menu item for togging between edit and browse modes; support for copy and paste in object table quick filter entry fields; among other enhancements.
