Overview
IBM Z Open Editor v4 or later features enterprise-level advanced capabilities that cover use cases that go beyond programming and simple accessing of z/OS Resources. You would typically find such features in IBM's commercial zDevOps solutions such as IBM Developer for z/OS Enterprise Edition (IDzEE). While the core Z Open Editor experience continues to provide free full language support for COBOL, PL/I, REXX, HLASM, and integrations with Zowe Explorer, these advanced capabilities require commercial licenses to activate. You can purchase the licenses through IBM Developer for z/OS Enterprise Edition or IBM Application Delivery Foundation for z/OS.
To allow every user to try these features, Z Open Editor will activate a 60-day trial license when you start version 4 for the first time.
For more information, see IBM Documentation.
Only the following three new features documented in this section require such a license:
- z/OS Resources table: an all-new feature rich view that extends Zowe Explorer with a sortable table. Gain insights into your jobs and data sets by listing, filtering, and sorting on many available properties.
- Local preprocessor support for COBOL: run a preprocessor on your local workstation driven by a new ZAPP profile type and then continue editing with full syntax checking (except for the preprocessor statements) and automatically rerunning the preprocessor at save. Compare the preprocessor generated code with your code side-by-side. Support for running the preprocessor on z/OS will be added in a future release.
- Advanced Dependency-Based user build error reporting: User build logs are now automatically downloaded, parsed, and presented in the editor's Problems view with descriptions and error codes. Navigate to warnings and errors in your code with a mouse click in the Problems view to review and fix your issue and then rerun your build.
To access these capabilities beyond the trial period you need to activate them in the Z Open Editor Welcome page. See Activating Advanced Capabilities for details.