Eclipse Che4z provides components/extensions for Eclipse Che to facilitate mainframe application development by providing:
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Access to resources on z/OS
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Smart editing support for COBOL, the most prominent language on the mainframe
Eclipse Che4z currently comprises two products, z/OS Resource Explorer and COBOL Language Support.
Release Notes - COBOL Language Support
Version 0.81
Version 0.8 was released on 1 October 2019.
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Extension name updated.
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Repository corrected including improved description.
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Unexpected error message resolved. Re-directed to internal log.
Version 0.8
Version 0.8 was released on 1 August 2019 and includes the following features:
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Autocomplete for COBOL
Provides suggestions for COBOL keywords while you type. -
COBOL syntax check
Checks for mistakes and errors in COBOL code. -
Third-party COBOL syntax highlighting support
Enables syntax highlighting for COBOL code as long as you have an appropriate third-party syntax highlighting extension installed.
Release Notes - z/OS Resource Explorer
Version 0.8
Version 0.8 was released on 1 August 2019 and includes the following features:
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Browse, edit, copy, delete and create members
z/OS Resource Explorer lets you browse, edit, copy, delete and create PDS members. -
Allocate data sets
z/OS Resource Explorer lets you allocate new data sets by copying the parameters of an existing data set. Only PDS and PDSE libraries, and sequential files that use "tracks" or "cylinders" as their storage unit are supported. -
Filters
z/OS Resource Explorer lets you create customisable filters for ease of browsing data sets. -
COBOL and JCL syntax awareness support
z/OS explorer integrates with JCL and COBOL syntax awareness extensions when browsing and editing members of data sets with the extensions .JCL and .COBOL.