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Zowe Explorer for Visual Studio Code

All previous versions of Zowe Explorer for Visual Studio Code™ can be downloaded from Zowe Explorer GitHub Releases.

Zowe Explorer for VS Code provides access to mainframe resources in Visual Studio Code. Zowe Explorer provides a modern, familiar, user-friendly interface that enables mainframe developers and system programmers to:

• Manage data sets and USS files on a z/OS mainframe with browse, create, modify, rename, copy, and upload functionality
• Submit JCL and view job output
• Issue TSO, UNIX, and MVS console commands from an integrated VS Code terminal
• Apply other VS Code extensions for things like syntax highlighting, debugging, and IntelliSense to improve the developer experience

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Other ways to connect

• Join the #zowe-explorer-vscode channel on Slack to stay in touch with the Zowe community.
• To translate Zowe Explorer into your language, join our POEditor project.
• For the complete Zowe Explorer documentation, see Zowe Docs.

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Before you use Zowe Explorer, ensure that you meet the following prerequisites:

Client side requirements

Operating systems

• macOS: Only Mac operating system versions supported by Apple

• Unix-like:

  • CentOS 8+
  • RHEL 8+
  • Ubuntu 20.04+

• Windows: Only Windows operating system versions supported by Microsoft

Integrated development environments

• Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces

  Note: Secure credentials are not supported in Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces as the keyring is not unlocked by default. However, you can use the Kubernetes Secrets plug-in for Zowe CLI or Zowe® Explorer for Kubernetes® Secrets as an alternative, or you can create your own Custom Credential Managers in Zowe Explorer and Zowe CLI.

• VS Code 1.90.0+

  Note: Only VS Code versions that bundle actively maintained versions of Node.js are supported.

Server side requirements

• IBM z/OSMF is configured and running.

  • See z/OSMF REST services for Zowe clients for a list of services that need configuration.

• If using IBM CICS or IBM z/OS FTP: Applicable plug-in services are configured and running on the mainframe.

  • Plug-ins communicate with various mainframe services. The services must be configured and running on the mainframe before issuing plug-in commands. - See Zowe® Explorer for IBM® CICS® Transaction Server system requirements. - See Zowe® Explorer for IBM® z/OS® FTP system requirements.
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<details> <summary><span style="font-size: 1.5em"><b>Getting started</b></span><hr></summary>

Use various services to communicate with system resources and extract system data on the mainframe:

• z/OSMF

  • See z/OSMF documentation for more information.

• SSH

  • This connection option is integrated out-of-the-box, powered by Zowe Remote SSH.
  • See SSH documentation for more information.

• FTP

  • This connection is available with the Zowe Explorer FTP Extension.
  • See FTP documentation for more information.

• There are multiple extensions that offer additional protocols and functionality. See the Explorer for Visual Studio Code Zowe V3 section in the Zowe V2 and V3 Conformant Landscape for a complete list of conformant extensions.

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