{Core} Here we’ll look at how you can edit z/OS REXX code on your workstation, run it from within VS Code, and do it quickly. End Result Below is a gif where we run a “Hello World” z/OS REXX program. The program is changed to accept parameterized values and executed with test…

Follow these steps to try Zowe CLI daemon mode! {Core} We previously shared how The Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe CLI response time can be improved greatly with a new daemon mode (e.g. some zowe command response times went from several seconds to <1 second). Feedback Because we released this version of…

{Core} Although we’ve seen how to quickly allocate data sets with custom attributes before, we can replicate this process in a simpler way using The Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe CLI’s project config that is provided with vNext. To download vNext see Installing the Zowe CLI @next version. Let’s get started…

{Core} If you use The Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe Explorer and cannot perform some mainframe operation directly, consider incorporating Zowe CLI into your workflow. For example, at the time of writing this, you cannot run unix commands through the Zowe Explorer UI. Here we’ll look at a few examples of…

{Core} The Open Mainframe Project’s Zowe Client SDK for Node.js is a node package manager (npm) package that you can include in a development / automation project. It handles the details of loading profiles along with calling the right mainframe REST API endpoints. Here we’ll get setup and build a…

{Core} For the next major version of Zowe CLI — we plan to add the ability to run it in daemon mode for faster response time. Please see the latest updates to daemon mode Definition First, daemon is a: (noun) program that runs continuously and exists for the purpose of handling…

{Core} Zowe CLI and ZOA Utilities can each help with automating mainframe development workflows; combining them and using them together can help even more. Here we’ll look briefly at ZOA Utilities and Zowe CLI to describe a bit about each one and then show an example of calling ZOA Utilities…

{Core} In a previous blog, we’ve seen how you can call low-level services (written in Metal C /HLASM) from Java. Here, we’ll do something similar but from Node.js / JavaScript. Background / Prerequisites Before getting started, you’ll have to go through the steps to install Node.js and build a native “Hello World” Node.js…

{Core} “The Open Mainframe Projext’s Zowe offers modern interfaces to interact with z/OS and allows you to work with z/OS in a way that is similar to what you experience on cloud platforms today.” — zowe.org One modern way to interact with cloud platforms is through Software Development Kits, (e.g…