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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

Uninstalling CLI plugins and VS Code extensions

Follow this procedure to uninstall IBM RSE API Plug-in for Zowe CLI and IBM Z Open Editor from your workstation.

Uninstalling RSE CLI plug-in

To uninstall IBM RSE API Plug-in for Zowe CLI (RSE CLI plug-in) from your development machine, complete the following steps:

  1. Check that the RSE CLI plug-in is currently installed by running the following Zowe CLI command:

    zowe plugins list
    
  2. Uninstall the RSE CLI plug-in by running the following command:

    zowe plugins uninstall @ibm/rse-api-for-zowe-cli
    

Uninstalling Z Open Editor and Zowe Explorer

To uninstall IBM Z Open Editor and Zowe Explorer, complete the following steps:

  1. In VS Code, navigate to the Extensions activity group by click the icon on the left toolbar or by clicking Code > Settings > Extensions.
  2. From the Extensions: Installed list, select IBM Z Open Editor.
  3. In the details view appearing on the right, click Uninstall.
  4. From the list on the left, select Zowe Explorer.
  5. In the details view appearing on the right, click Uninstall.
  6. Quit and restart VS Code.
Last Updated: 6/15/23, 11:14 AM
Contributors: Peter Haumer, Chun Hong Zheng
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