Choosing and installing a client

IBM® Developer for z/OS® supports an IDE (integrated development environment) built on the Eclipse platform. If your site licensed IBM Developer for z/OS Enterprise Edition you have the choice of three IDEs that you can work in.

• The Developer for z/OS Eclipse client is installed on a Windows or macOS workstation. It offers a robust and extensible suite of end-to-end tools for developing, analyzing, debugging, testing, and building z/OS applications. It supports development of source code from a variety of traditional mainframe and modern cloud-native sources, such as z/OS, z/OS UNIX System Services, Git, and Jazz®.
• The IBM Developer for z/OS on VS Code web-based IDE, which extends the functions of VS Code to provide z/OS developers with a familiar and straightforward edit, build, and debug experience. IBM Developer for z/OS on VS Code consists of the IBM Z® Open Editor and IBM Z Open Debug VS Code extensions.