Jenkins and the IBM i Series

[Allen Fisher]

Hello Everyone—

 

I’ve been brought in to work on build processes in a very specialized environment. We make software for the IBM iSeries which has Windows components and iSeries components. Has anyone out there used Jenkins to drive processes on the iSeries? I’ve not had much luck finding anything. I’m completely fine blazing a new trail, but I’d rather check first and see if anyone’s working in this sort of environment.

 

Thanks!

 

Allen

 

Allen Fisher  Build and Release Engineer e. allen....@helpsystems.com  w. www.helpsystems.com

 

 

[Phil Craig]

Hi Allen,

I'm working on the same thing but not making much progress. I have the IBMi box defined as a slave node on our Jenkins server and have -Dfile.encoding=ISO8859_1 and -text defined on the slave jar startup config but I still get garbage (presumably ebcdic chars) back in the console log.

Have you got any further than this?

Phil

[Allen Fisher]

Hi Phil—

 

I was just going through my Jenkins emails and I saw that you’d replied to this. Thanks for the response.

 

We’re going to “cheat” I think. We’ve got our own custom build system that we’re building out the API for. I’m already packaging SAVF files from a Jenkins job by calling down to the IBMi using a little app I wrote using the Java Toolbox… no IBMi Slave required. The toolbox seems to, so far, have all the hooks I need to get stuff off the i. I’ve defined a build.gradle file that collects everything up and builds our deployment tools.

 

So did you have to recompile slave.jar? How bad was that effort, if so?

 

Thanks again for responding, and apologies for me missing it in the glut of Jenkins emails I get every day.