Developing z/OS applications with Eclipse

The following topics provide information about the zIDE development environment. They describe the zIDE perspectives and views, the types of projects you can create in zIDE, how to set properties for resources in zIDE, and the editors that you can use for COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, REXX, and C++ source files.

• Becoming familiar with zIDE perspectives and views
• Organizing source files with projects and subprojects
• Defining resource options with property groups
• Editing COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, and C++ files

The following topics provide instructions for completing some of the basic tasks you must do when you develop applications in the zIDE.

• For client administrators: Distributing updates by using push-to-client
• Quick tasks for zIDE
• Creating a z/OS project
• Creating an MVS subproject
• Creating a z/OS UNIX subproject
• Adding a remote file to an MVS subproject
• Editing COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, and C++ files

The following samples and tutorials guide you through the development of applications with zIDE tools:

• A simple COBOL application on a remote system
• Submitting JCL with dynamic variable substitution
• Getting started with z/OS application development

• Remote Connection Emulator
• Enterprise Service Tools for CICS
• BMS Screen Designer
• Enterprise Service Tools for IMS
• MFS Screen Designer
• Developing with Db2 for z/OS

Many resources for learning and using the zIDE tools are available. Use the following links to learn more about how to put these tools to work:

• IBM® Community
• Developer for z/OS Library
• Developer for z/OS playlist from IBM User Education on YouTube
• IBM Developer for z/OS videos on IBM Media Center
• DevOps on IBM Media Center