TPF Toolkit

An easy-to-use, integrated development environment for building, testing, and deploying TPF applications

IBM® TPF Toolkit is an easy-to-use, integrated development environment for TPF applications.

Edit, compile and debug your TPF applications remotely from your workstation with Eclipse–based technology that provides an open integration platform.

• Take advantage of full edit support of C, C++ and Assembly Language source files including content assist.
• Debug IBM High Level Assembler, C or C++ applications using the remote debugger.
• Analyze performance of TPF applications to understand and improve the performance of C and C++ programs.
• Integrate software configuration management tools using the customizable interface.
• Create connections to remote systems using the Remote System Explorer (RSE) to access remote hosts.
• Migrate from TPF 4.1 to z/TPF using the TPF Toolkit source scan tools that help you convert TPF 4.1 application code to single source and then maintain this single source until your migration to z/TPF is complete.

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• Eclipse - TPF Toolkit is built on Eclipse. This offers TPF developers tight integration with other Eclipse based products, saving on developer retraining costs when other Eclipse based products are introduced into the development shop. Eclipse is an award-winning, open source platform for the construction of powerful software development tools and rich desktop applications. Leveraging the Eclipse plug-in framework to integrate technology on the desktop saves technology providers time and money by enabling them to focus their efforts on delivering differentiation and value for their offerings. Full details on Eclipse are available at http://www.eclipse.org/.

• User assistance - TPF Toolkit provides different forms of user assistance to help programmers at different levels of expertise learn about the available functions and quickly and successfully complete required tasks. A product Welcome is provided to assist new TPF Toolkit users. User documentation for TPF programmers is available through an online help system. In addition to the documentation provided in the online help, the development tools in this product provide context-sensitive help. To display context-sensitive help, put focus on the part of the user interface that you want to learn about and press the F1 key.

• Remote System Explorer - TPF Toolkit provides a graphical interface to z/OS®, TPF, Linux® for zSeries®, and Windows® systems on your network through the Remote System Explorer. You can define and manage connections to these systems and work with remote files and folders, or other system specific views using an alternative TCP/IP based connection protocol to the still-supported NFS or Windows mounted file systems.

• Editor - TPF Toolkit provides an integrated version of the Live Parsing and Extensible (LPEX) editor. The LPEX editor provides all of the general functions expected of a workstation editor - cut and paste, insert, delete, join, and find. It also provides extra functions through language extensions supporting C, C++, Sabretalk, and High Level Assembler. These language extensions format and display code structures, perform lexical parsing, and support contextual help. In addition, the LPEX editor allows you to customize its look and behavior. This editor provides syntax coloring and content assist. It also provides the Save As action, line break conversions (UNIX® or Windows), auto comment, and an Outline view.

  
  TPF Toolkit also provides the Remote C/C++ Editor. Using this editor, you can edit local and remote C and C++ files. This editor provides syntax coloring, content assist, and the open declarations action. It also provides the Save As action, line break conversions (UNIX, Windows, or MacOS 9), auto comment, and an Outline view.

• Remote compile, assemble, and link - Remote compile and assemble capability allows you to invoke builds on z/OS Unix System Services or Linux for zSeries from your workstation. The context sensitive pop-up menu makes the appropriate build action readily available depending on the file selection. Build results are displayed in the message console and errors are displayed in a table view. Double-clicking on any error message conveniently invokes the editor, positioned at the appropriate place in the code with the error indicated. TPF Toolkit also provides the capability to create DLMs, DLLs, and LLMs for TPF 4.1 and shared objects for z/TPF.

• Remote debug - The remote debugger for TPF Toolkit is an interactive source-level debugger. The integrated Windows client is connected through TCP/IP to a native TPF environment. The remote debugger allows you to debug High Level Assembler, C, or C++ applications. The debugger displays application source files and the functions in those source files. You can single-step, step through, step over, or stop execution at a specified line or condition. While controlling execution, you can monitor variables, registers, memory, call stacks, TPF control blocks, and other elements.

  
  TPF Toolkit provides the following TPF-specific views to enhance your debugging productivity:

  
  - ALASC view
  - DETAC view
  - ECB view
  - ECB Summary view
  - DECB view
  - Data Level view
  - DECB view
  - SW00SR view
  - TPF Malloc view
  - Record Hold view

  
  Note that some of the views only apply to the z/TPF 1.1 environment.

• Integrated Performance Analyzer client - The external Performance Analyzer client has been replaced with a new profiling perspective that is fully integrated into the Eclipse workbench. This new perspective is consistent with the look and feel of the rest of the product. In addition, the Performance Analyzer client offers new actions that support the automatic downloading of trace files from TPF, loading them directly into the new profiling perspective.

• Code Coverage tool – A critical measure of the effectiveness of software testing is how much of an application is executed by various test suites. To maintain high quality, it is important that test suites cover a range of scenarios that test many aspects of an application. TPF Toolkit has added a new Code Coverage feature that allows you to easily analyze your test suites. The Code Coverage tool displays the percentage of code executed at various levels of detail and can be used to determine if testing coverage is adequate.

• Source Scan and Single Source Migration - TPF Toolkit contains source scan capability for C, C++, and assembler language code. This enables two significant functions: single source migration and scan tool extensibility. Single source migration scans your source and provides a list of definite and potential changes that might need to be made to the code to make it compile and run on both the TPF 4.1 and z/TPF systems. Scan tool extensibility allows you to write custom rules to detect and change code. This useful function can be used to enforce enterprise-wide coding standards and governance issues.

• Integrated Three-way Merge - TPF Toolkit now includes a fully integrated, three-way merge capability. The TPF Merge tool is extremely useful in comparing two or three files or directories and provides flexible merge options for generating the merged results.

• Web Services - TPF Toolkit contains functions to help you to develop, deploy, and manage Web Services in a top-down approach. Tooling is provided to help you develop provider Web services as well as consumer Web services. Wizards are provided to help you create Web Services Description Language (WSDL) files, wrappers, and stub program templates for Web services, as well as deployment descriptors for Web services and SOAP message handlers to be deployed on the z/TPF system. TPF subsystems in RSE allow you to list, add, remove, deploy, and undeploy provider Web services, consumer Web services, and SOAP Message Handler resources.

  
  A Files subsystem in RSE enables you to access the z/TPF file system by using FTP.

• Support for disconnected development - TPF Toolkit allows you to work in a disconnected mode and continue to work with your source files even when you do not have access to the remote host systems. TPF Toolkit helps you upload your changes as soon as the remote connections become available.

• Menu Manager - TPF Toolkit allows you to fully customize the context menu, by providing a Menu Manager which allows you to easily create custom actions and menus and assign menus to TPF Toolkit objects in the TPF Toolkit Project Navigator. This allows you to easily and seamlessly integrate any tools with TPF Toolkit.

• Software Configuration Management tools support - TPF Toolkit provides an open interface to support Software Configuration Management (SCM) tools. You can integrate any SCM which is accessible from a Microsoft® Windows command prompt, such as Rational® ClearCase®. TPF Toolkit provides the tools to easily create the custom interface to the SCM functions that you need.

• TPF Make build tools - TPF Toolkit contains a graphical user interface to the TPF Make build tools. Create and manage makefiles, configuration files, and build TPF Toolkit projects and subprojects using the TPF Make build facility.

• Embedded 3270 Emulator - With the introduction of a new 3270 host emulator, access your TPF systems without having to switch away from your development environment. The host emulator feature also allows you to record macros that can be replayed at any time to perform repetitive tasks automatically.

• Remote Index Search – TPF Toolkit provides a remote index search capability which offers considerably faster search results compared to traditional remote search. In order to use the remote index search feature, you must first create an index for the directories over which the search will be performed.

Operating System	Software	Hardware
Linux on System z	TCP/IP (installed and configured) Optional. IBM Developer Kit for Linux Java™ 2 Technology Edition 5.0 31-bit or 64-bit zSeries. This is required to run the Remote System Explorer. Optional. OpenSSH server that supports the SSH2 protocol REXEC or SSH server enabled. Optional. Distributed File Service - SMB. Optional. Network File System - NFS
Other	TPF 4.1 - PUT 15 or 16 with APARs PJ28041, PJ28176 (CXML), PJ29430, and PJ27905 applied or PUT 17 with APAR PJ29430 applied. TPF 4.1 - If APAR PJ28649 (merged Assembler/C debug capability) is applied, then APAR PJ29585 must also be applied. TPF 4.1 - TPF Debug Views APARs PJ31891 and PJ32240 ( SW00SR View) z/TPF - See the z/TPF and z/TPFDF Migration Guide available in the IBM TPF Product Information Center. z/TPF - Latest PUT Level is recommended z/TPF - Debugger APAR PJ31357, TPF Views APAR PJ31890, SW00SR View APAR PJ32221, and Registration Enhancements APAR PJ34615 z/TPF - Performance Analysis APARs PJ31771 and PJ31854 z/TPF - Web Services APAR PJ31953 z/TPFDF - APAR PK77217
Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional	Optional. Hummingbird Maestro V10.0 or higher	Intel™ Pentium® III 800 MHz Processor (minimum requirement) 650 MB disk space (English only). The IBM Support Assistant (optional install) requires an additional 90 MB disk space. 512 MB RAM minimum (1 GB recommended if running multiple applications) 17" Monitor, XGA display 1024 x 768 (minimum requirement)
z/OS	OS/390 C/C++ V2R10 or z/OS C/C++ V1R7 or higher High Level Assembler z/OS Communication Server (TCPIP with REXEC or SSH server enabled) Optional. Distributed file system - Server Message Block (SMB) Optional. Network File System (NFS) z/OS UNIX System Services Optional. IBM Ported Tools for z/OS. This contains a ported version of the OpenSSH application, and is required if you want to access your remote host using the SSH protocol. Optional. IBM 31-bit SDK for z/OS Java™ 2 Technology Edition, V5 IBM 64-bit SDK for z/OS Java 2 Technology Edition, V5 (required to run the Remote System Explorer)