Trigger a z/OS JCL-Job from Python through FTP

While working with mainframe systems in todays world, it can make a lot of sense to try and integrate it with other languages or control it from the “outside”. This enabled me to simplify tasks such as automated testing, continous integration and deployment, and a few smaller tasks that would have taken way longer if they were done manually. In this post, I’ll show how I used Python to orchestrate jobs on a z/OS-system through FTP....

February 18, 2023