The code-validate-run loop
Four commands and three waits become one click per edit. The validation gate decides whether the submit runs at all, based on whether it passes or fails. The logs land on screen.
Use case: IT & DevOps
The loop you run forty times a day, wired once
The glue work between your tools is validate, submit, poll, and fetch. Flow turns it into a flow you run with one click, schedule nightly, or drop into CI with exit codes and NDJSON output.
Patterns
From personal loop to nightly gate
Solution-level release gates
The flow runs nightly to provision, configure, test, publish, and tear down. It forks into parallel branches, one per security manager (RACF, TSS, ACF2), and takes an automatic snapshot when a branch fails.
Broken-build defense
A scheduled supervisor flow watches all registered pipelines. It alerts the same evening when a build goes red, cleans up the instance when a build goes green, and checks quota before it provisions.
CI-native execution
The headless CLI runs any flow in a pipeline. It returns worst-of aggregate exit codes, emits NDJSON event streams, runs across multiple targets at once, and supports format checks.
Case studies
Proven in the loop
customer IT & DevOps
The code-validate-run loop
A developer who just edited a JCL job
Stop typing four CLI commands and waiting between each - wire the loop once, run it on every edit.
Four commands and three waits become one click per edit
internal IT & DevOps
Solution-level release testing
A value-stream product/QA engineer whose PTF just passed product tests
Catch the cross-product break before GA, on a schedule, without hand-writing a pipeline.
Defects caught at solution test, pre-GA - not by a customer
internal IT & DevOps
Daily broken-build defense
A release/build manager accountable for the daily build's health
Surface every broken solution build the same day, with a ping - and keep the quota clean on its own.
Days-to-discovery becomes a same-evening pushed alert
Put your pipeline on the canvas
Then hand the same flow to CI with the headless runner.