TPF Toolkit

Integrated workbench

• The Menu Manager allows you to fully customize the context menu. You can create custom actions and menus and assign menus to TPF Toolkit objects in the TPF Toolkit Project Navigator.
• You can create and manage makefiles and configuration files, and build TPF Toolkit projects and subprojects using the TPF Make Build facility.
• The Code Coverage tool helps you analyze your test suites. This tool measures how much of an application is executed by various tests to determine if test coverage is adequate.
• Software Configuration Management (SCM) tools can be integrated using the customizable interface. You can integrate any SCM tool that is accessible from a Windows command prompt such as Rational ClearCase®.

Remote systems access

• The Remote Systems Explorer provides a graphical interface to z/OS, TPF, Linux and Windows systems on your network. You can define and manage connections to supported systems, and work with remote files and folders.
• The 3270 host emulator allows you to access your TPF systems within the development environment.
• The remote compile and assemble capability allows you to invoke builds on z/OS UNIX System Services or Linux for zSeries from your workstation.

Local and remote editors

• The LPEX Editor provides the general functions of a workstation editor and provides extra functions through language extensions supporting C, C++, SabreTalk and High Level Assembler.
• The remote C/C++ editor lets you edit local and remote C and C++ files.
• Both the LPEX Editor and the remote C/C++ editor provide syntax coloring, content assist, the Save As action, line-break conversions, auto comment and an outline view.
• After compiling, you can double-click on any error message in the build results to conveniently invoke the editor, positioned at the appropriate place in the code with the error indicated.

Web services tools

• TPF Toolkit helps you to develop, deploy and manage web services. Tooling is provided to help you develop provider and consumer web services.
• Wizards help you create WSDL files, wrappers and stub program templates for web services, as well as deployment descriptors for web services and SOAP message handlers to be deployed on the z/TPF system.

Remote debugger

• The remote debugger for TPF Toolkit is an interactive source-level debugger, which displays application source files and the functions within source files.
• The remote debugger allows you to debug High Level Assembler, C and C++ applications. You can control execution and monitor variables, registers, memory, call stacks, TPF control blocks and other elements.
• You can start and stop trace log collection through the debug view, while the associated debug session is active.

Performance analysis

• The TPF Toolkit includes a fully integrated performance analysis feature that automatically downloads trace files from TPF and loads them directly into the profiling perspective.
• The enhanced trace log viewer provides graphical hierarchical and analysis views that are configurable to help you easily identify performance bottlenecks and other critical statistics.