OpenMake Meister

Footprinting

 

Footprinting or Bill of Material Reporting provides a list of dependencies that were included in the creation of the final deployable object.  Footprinting builds the information inside of the actual load module. Using the omident program allows you to view the information about how the load module was created. This information includes all the environment variable settings of the machine where the compile was executed.  For those installations that do not want the Footprinting information included in the load module, a report is created during the build. This report can then be managed and released with the load module.  It can also be viewed in production should a problem occur that requires debugging down to the source code and dependency level.

 

These particular features of Meister for z/OS can take your build process beyond a static manual JCL coding effort, and instead can make it a powerful tool in your overall development effort.