Installing Zowe Explorer

The Zowe Explorer extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) modernizes the way developers and system administrators interact with z/OS mainframes, and lets you interact with data sets, USS files, and jobs.

For a better understanding of Zowe Explorer, review the various reference materials that document the VS Code extension.

About Zowe Explorer

• Check out Zowe release notes to learn about the latest Zowe Explorer updates.

• If you have a question, review the Zowe Explorer FAQs, which answer the most commonly asked questions about Zowe Explorer.

Installing and configuring

• Review the system requirements and steps for installing the Zowe Explorer in Installing Zowe Explorer.

• Learn how to create and work with Zowe Explorer profiles. A profile enables you to connect to services running on a mainframe, integrate with the API Mediation Layer, and more.

Getting the most out of Zowe Explorer

• Review Using Zowe Explorer to go over how to use Zowe Explorer in a remote environment and managing credentials.

• Learn how to extend Zowe Explorer to introduce new functionalities.

• Add CICS functionality and the FTP protocol to the Zowe Explorer VS Code extension with the Zowe Explorer CICS Extension and the Zowe Explorer FTP Extension.

• Check out the Zowe Explorer GitHub repository to view the source code for Zowe Explorer and other Zowe Explorer-related extensions.

• Watch the following videos to learn how to get started with Zowe Explorer, and work with data sets:

Contributing to Zowe Explorer

• Review the Contribution Guidelines for a summary of conventions and best practices for development of the Visual Studio Code Extension for Zowe.

Zowe Explorer community resources

The Zowe ecosystem is more than a collection of applications and extensions. An entire community exists to work on enhancements, help answer questions, and discuss plans for the future of the open source project.

• Join the #zowe-explorer-vscode Slack channel to ask questions, propose new ideas, and interact with the Zowe community.

• You can join Zowe Explorer squad meetings to get involved. The meeting schedule is posted in the Zowe calendar.

• Read informative blog posts about Zowe on Medium to explore use cases, best practices, and more.

• Discuss Zowe topics in the Open Mainframe Project community forums.

• If you have an issue that is specific to Zowe Explorer, you can submit an issue in the zowe-explorer-vscode repository on GitHub.

Community resources

• Slack channel

  Join the # zowe-explorer Slack channel to ask questions, propose new ideas, and interact with the Zowe community.

• Zowe Explorer squad meetings

  You can join one of the Zowe Explorer squad meetings to get involved.

• Zowe Blogs on Medium

  Read a series of blog articles about Zowe on Medium to explore use cases, best practices, and more.

• Community Forums

  Look for discussion on Zowe topics on the Open Mainframe Project Community Forums.