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Agility, Quality, Velocity.
Code4z
 revolutionizes mainframe development, integrating VS Code extensions to boost productivity, collaboration, and seamless access to mainframe resources. This modern developer experience empowers mainframe teams to experience greater agility, improve code quality, and increase velocity.
Key features include:
  • Breadth and depth of extensions for diverse roles and functions.
  • Accelerated development of hybrid integrations.
  • Comprehensive Z language support with integrations to
    Endevor
     and Git.
  • Enhanced quality through seamless debugging, unit testing, and abend analysis.
  • Improved collaboration between mainframe and distributed teams.
Install the
Code4z Foundation
 pack to get started quickly, or install extensions individually based on your needs:
  • Abend Analyzer for Mainframe
    *
    Provides an interface to
    SymDump
     CICS and
    SymDump
     Batch for viewing formatted abend reports and symbolic data.
  • COBOL Control Flow
    *
    Visualizes the program flow for COBOL programs to aid comprehension and navigation.
  • COBOL Language Support
    *
    Enhances COBOL programming with autocomplete, syntax highlighting, diagnostics, and mainframe copybook retrieval using
    Zowe Explorer
    .
  • COBOL Language Support for IDMS
    An add-on for
    COBOL Language Support
    , providing autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and checking for
    IDMS
     DML COBOL, including support for
    IDMS
     copybooks and snippets.
  • Data Editor for Mainframe
    *
    Enables browsing, editing, layout application, and interactive filtering of mainframe data sets, including VSAM files.
  • Database API Generator
    Generates Zowe-conforming REST APIs for JDBC-enabled database access, allowing discovery of database objects and generation of necessary Java classes.
  • Database Management for Db2 z/OS (
    DBM-Db2
    )
    Provides schema management capabilities for Db2 for z/OS to generate, validate, and deploy DDL changes, and copy Db2 objects and dependencies across subsystems.
  • Debugger for Mainframe
    *
    Provides a modern debugging experience for COBOL and HLASM CICS and Batch programs, interfacing with
    InterTest
     for CICS and
    InterTest
     Batch.
  • Easytrieve Language Support
    Offers autocomplete, syntax highlighting, coloring, validation, hover definition, and go-to definition for
    Easytrieve
     files. This extension can also generate JCL for mainframe execution.
  • Explorer for Endevor
    *
    Modernizes
    Endevor
     interaction, providing a user-friendly way to manage elements and inventory locations, access and edit
    Endevor
    -based source code, and navigate environments.
  • HB.js for VS Code
    Enables rapid creation of REST APIs that expose core business processes from CICS systems, accelerating integration and digital transformation. Provides tools to modernize legacy COBOL assets into reusable JavaScript components and to capture application logic for building
    HB.js
     APIs that align with enterprise workflows.
  • HLASM Language Support
    *
    Supports High-Level Assembler with code completion, error checking, highlighting, navigation, dependency retrieval from mainframe datasets and
    Endevor
    , and conditional assembly tracing.
  • JCL Check
    Provides an interface for validating JCL on z/OS for programmatic or stylistic errors and generating shareable reports.
  • JCL Language Support
    *
    Enhances JCL programming with snippets, syntax highlighting, and coloring, integrating with
    Zowe Explorer
     for hyperlinks to PDS members and USS files.
  • OPS/REXX Language Support
    Offers syntax highlighting, coloring, autocomplete, and error checking for OPS/REXX, supports AOF rules and snippets, and can run OPS/REXX programs on
    OPS/MVS
    .
  • PL/I Language Support
    *
    Enhances PL/I programming with syntax highlighting, coloring, and diagnostic features for code, compiler options, and include files.
  • REXX Language Support
    Provides syntax highlighting, coloring, autocomplete, and syntax checking for REXX code.
  • Unit Test for Mainframe
    Provides an interface to execute
    Test4z
     unit tests, view code coverage, and use snippets for the
    Test4z
     COBOL API.
  • Zowe Explorer
    *
    Supports fundamental mainframe activities and serves to integrate mainframe extensions. Capabilities include mainframe data and USS file management as well as mainframe batch job processing.
    Support Entitlement
    Code4z Foundation
     support is provided through DevOps Suite or Brightside entitlements. Where a
    Code4z
     extension relies on a
    Broadcom
     product running on the mainframe, support for the extension is provided with the mainframe product entitlement.
    * This extension is included in the
    Code4z Foundation
     pack.

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