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  • Overview

    • Introduction
    • Updates and user feedback
  • Getting Started

    • Getting started with IBM Z Open Editor
    • Setting up integrations to interact with z/OS
    • Getting started with Zowe 3.0
  • Configuration

    • Setting preferences
    • Configuring your applications with ZAPP files
    • Setting property groups
    • Setting compiler options
    • Setting file associations
    • Setting language-specific tab stops and rulers
    • Enabling and disabling problems in IBM Z Open Editor
    • Enabling and disabling unreachable COBOL code warnings
    • Customizing the Outline view
    • Setting language-specific maximum line length
    • EBCDIC code pages and mappings files
    • Experimental: Formatting COBOL source code
  • Tutorials

    • Tutorial overview
    • Exploring the user interface
    • Exploring the sample files
    • COBOL editing tutorial
    • COBOL, PL/I Preprocessor tutorial
    • HLASM editing tutorial
    • REXX editing tutorial
    • Managing z/OS resources with IBM RSE API Plug-in for Zowe CLI tutorial
    • Submitting JCL to compile, link, and run jobs tutorial
  • Editing program files

    • Language References
    • Making COBOL and PL/I code changes
    • Making High Level Assembler code changes
    • Making REXX code changes
    • Making JCL code changes
    • Using and managing code snippets
    • Using the integrated Git
    • Searching for COBOL, PL/I, HLASM, and REXX components
  • Interacting with z/OS using Zowe

    • Interacting with z/OS
    • Creating a configuration profile in Zowe Explorer v3.0.0
    • Migrating your old Zowe yaml profiles for Zowe v3.0
    • Supported methods of authentication for z/OS using Zowe
    • Sharing team configuration files
    • Connecting to z/OS with Zowe Explorer walk through
    • Using the Zowe Explorer views
    • Using Zowe profiles in Z Open Editor
    • Connecting to z/OS using Zowe CLI walk through
    • Using command line to interact with z/OS
    • Interact with RSE Common Properties
  • Advanced Capabilities

    • Overview
    • Activating advanced capabilities
    • Launching a 3270 emulator from Zowe Explorer
    • z/OS Resources Table
    • Data Elements View
    • Program Control Flow Browser
    • Data Flow Browser
    • Preprocessor support
    • Custom Macros for HLASM
    • Language Detection
    • Linting with IBM ZCodeScan
    • User build with IBM Dependency Based Build (DBB)
    • Agent Mode
    • Line Hex Editor
  • Cloud-based Editing

    • Overview to using Cloud and Browser-based platforms
    • Try Z Open Editor in the Red Hat Developer Sandbox
    • Configuring Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
    • Managing Developer Workspaces
    • Managing secrets
    • Create and use custom images
    • Migrating from IBM Wazi for Dev Spaces
    • Using Z Open Editor on GitHub Codespaces
    • Using Z® Open Editor with Dev Containers
  • Troubleshooting

    • Known issues and limitations
    • Troubleshooting using log files
    • Troubleshooting for User Build
    • Uninstalling CLI plugins and VS Code extensions
  • Reference

    • IBM RSE API Plug-in for Zowe CLI commands
    • IBM RSE API Plug-in for Zowe CLI as nodejs SDK package
    • IBM RSE API Plug-in for Zowe CLI as nodejs SDK reference
    • Example Zowe configuation setups
    • IBM Z Open Editor MCP Tools
    • Accessibility and Keyboard Shortcuts
    • settings.json properties
    • Message ID Reference
    • Other Visual Studio Code extensions
  • Legal information

    • Notices
    • Trademarks
    • Privacy policy considerations

Language References

The IBM Z Open Editor ships with IBM language servers for COBOL, PL/I, HLASM, and REXX. These language servers follow the language specification as documented here:

  • Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V6.5 documentation
  • Enterprise PL/I for z/OS V6.2 documentation
  • High Level Assembler and Toolkit V1.6
  • z/OS 3.2 TSO/E REXX
  • z/OS MVS JCL (Job Control Language) 3.2 documentation
Last Updated: 12/5/25, 9:17 AM
Contributors: Peter Haumer, Greg Lambert, kmaselli, PrasangAPrajapati, phaumer, Saile Daimwood, Prasang Prajapati, Hestia Zhang, Swathi Sadananda
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