| OVERVIEW
What is Brightside?
Brightside automates development, test and maintenance of mainframe applications and systems by providing you with commands that execute tasks on the z/OS side. Brightside's commands are client-side and execute natively on your dev workstation or CI automation box, similar to other popular CLIs like aws-cli. This allows you to integrate Brightside commands with your scripting language, or test or build automation framework of choice including Shell/Bash, Python, JavaScript, Mocha.JS, Gulp, etc.
| KEY FEATURES
Modern DevOps tooling
Use your favorite open system or host-independent tool to automate development and testing of z/OS applications.
Modern test automation
Write test automation scripts for functional, integration, system and performance testing of COBOL and PL/I applications running on z/OS.
Modern CI/CD
Integrate your mainframe automation scripts into cross-platform CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and/or TeamCity DevOps pipeline management software.
Modern APIs
Discover Mainframe APIs that expose additional automation tasks and data using the API Mediation Layer and API Catalog.
| EDITIONS
FOR INDIVIDUALS
CA Brightside Community Edition
In addition to Zowe™ CLI it also provides:
- Simplified packaging and installation
- Includes plugins for CA products that are thoroughly tested for compatibility with the provided version of Zowe™ CLI
- Community support
FOR TEAMS
CA Brightside Essentials
The same functionality as CA Brightside Community Edition. In addition to Community Edition it provides:
- 24x5 email support
- Stable release builds
- Predictable release schedule
- Subscription packages for groups of 20 or 50 users
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
CA Brightside Enterprise
In addition to CA Brightside Essentials it also provides:
- 24x7 phone support
- Stable version and support for Zowe™ API Mediation Layer
- Support for ongoing Enterprise-grade enhancements
- MIPS/MSU based pricing
What is Zowe™?
Zowe is an open source initiative within the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project (OMP). Founded by CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, IBM and Rocket Software, Zowe is the first open source project based on z/OS.
CA proudly contributed major components of Brightside such as the Zowe CLI, Zowe API Mediation Layer and the Zowe Visual Studio Code extension to the open source community.
Hundreds of developers are dedicated to extending Zowe and building a community around open source on the mainframe.
| RESOURCES
WHITE PAPER
DevOps with Mainframe-Driven Applications: Implementing Cross-Platform CI/CD
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How to Test Your Mainframe Environment With Open Source Brightside and Blazemeter
Top 5 Tools to Accelerate Mainframe Application Development
Extending Jenkins to the Mainframe: A Simpler Approach
BLOGS
Getting Started With CA Brightside
Using Mustache and npm scripts to automate dataset actions
Quickly get started with a “hello world” assembler program using the CLI
Automate your test environment validation using Taurus and Brightside
SCRIPT SAMPLES
Shell/Bash - Upload and Generate Element to CA Endevor
Python - Job submission and spool retrieval
Mocha - Automated Test for a Batch Program
Gulp - Abstract mainframe build tasks in a task runner
Jenkins - Jenkinsfile & Jenkins config for build, deploy, test MF pipeline
Zowe™, the Zowe™ logo and the Open Mainframe Project are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.