Product overview

z/OS® Explorer consists of a client, installed on the user's personal computer, and a server, installed on one or more host systems. This documentation contains information for a z/OS host system.

The client provides developers with an Eclipse-based development environment that facilitates a uniform graphical interface to the host, and that, among other things, can offload work from the host to the client, saving resources on the host.

The host portion consists of several permanently active tasks and tasks that are started ad hoc. These tasks allow the client to work with the various components of your z/OS host system, such as MVS data sets, TSO commands, z/OS UNIX files and commands, job submit, and job output.

Both z/OS Explorer host and client allow other products to be installed on top to extend the capabilities, for example, interacting with Software Configuration Managers (SCMs).

For a basic understanding of the z/OS Explorer design, see "Understanding z/OS Explorer" in the Host Configuration Reference Guide (SC27-8438).

To learn more about the functionality that is offered by z/OS Explorer, see Mainframe DEV, or your local IBM® representative.