Using This Guide

Before reading this book you should assure that:
  • You are familiar working with Enterprise Developer mainframe COBOL or PL/I projects.

    If not, please walk through the Enterprise Developer mainframe tutorials first, which you will find in the Micro Focus Documentation Info Center. You must be familiar with the content explained in the tutorial Getting started with Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for Eclipse.

  • You are familiar with accessing the mainframe using Enterprise Developer for z Systems

    If not, please walk through the Enterprise Developer mainframe tutorials first, which you will find in the Micro Focus Documentation Info Center. You must be familiar with the content explained in the Remote Mainframe Development tutorial.

  • You have basic understanding of the Endevor concepts

    If not, you will find an Endevor overview on the Internet, for example in Wikipedia.

  • You have basic understanding of the AccuRev concepts

    This book will show you how you can use AccuRev for your daily development work. To get a better understanding of the basic SCM concepts, if required, Micro Focus recommends to have a look into the AccuRev Concepts Manual.

  • You have a basic understanding of the Enterprise Sync concepts.

The basic concepts how Enterprise mirrors and synchronizes software assets between Endevor and AccuRev are explained in the Enterprise Sync Installation and Administration Guide.

Based on a simple application sample the chapters in this book provide an introduction how file changes are managed consistently cross-platform in AccuRev and Endevor, how files are promoted through the stages until to the production stage and how parallel development is supported.