[Info-vax] OpenVMS developmen integration with Azure DevOps.

[John Vottero]

On Wednesday, September 1, 2021 at 5:47:28 AM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Hi. 
> 
> There are talks around our OpenVMS environment and project work 
> where it is looked at to add Azure DevOps to our work environment. 
> 
> They are talkning about "pipelines" within Azure DevOps where 
> the build procedures are setup and the build is run from within 
> the Azure Devops environment. 
> 
> Does anyone have any comments around this? Have anyone looked at 
> using Azure DevOps for their OpenVMS development/test/deploy? 
> 
> Has anyone looked at other tools (DECset?) to do anything in 
> this direction? 
> 
> Regards, 
> Jan-Erik.

I used Visual Studio and Azure DevOps for OpenVMS development. A build consisted of a PowerShell script that FTPed the source code to an OpenVMS build machine and then kicked off a batch job to do the actual build. We used DevOps for source control and tying code changes to tickets. We didn't use DevOps pipelines for the builds but that wouldn't be hard since the build was a PowerShell script.

The hard part for you will be using PowerShell to kick off an OpenVMS batch job and waiting for it to succeed or fail. We used our own product (JAMS) for that. Information of JAMS is available here: https://www.helpsystems.com/product-lines/jams

I'm retired now but I spent 30 years working on JAMS.