Requisite products
z/OS® Explorer has a list of prerequisite software that must be installed and operational before the product will work. There is also a list of corequisite software to support specific features of z/OS Explorer. These requisites must be installed and operational at runtime for the corresponding features to work as designed.
For a complete listing of the z/OS Explorer software requirements including prerequisites and co-requisites, generate reports from Software Product Compatibility Reports.
Plan ahead to have these requisite products available, as it might take some time, depending on
the policies at your site. The key requisites for a basic setup are:
- z/OS 2.4 or higher
- Latest service release of Java™ 8.0 or higher (31 or 64 bit)
- Latest service release of Java 11 (minimum 11.0.17 or higher)
- Latest service release of Java 17 (minimum 17.0.7 or higher)