Installation instructions

There are two ways of installing the z/OS Explorer Development Features:

1. Extenting an existing z/OS Explorer installation
2. Installing the feature as a standalone product. For this you will to make some adjustments, depending on your environment (operating system, system architecture) and build it from scratch.

Extend z/OS Explorer

• Download and install z/OS Explorer
• Open z/OS Explorer and click "Help -> Install new Software ..."
• In "Work with:" type "https://tgmz.github.io/de.tgmz.aqua/" and hit Enter
• Choose "z/Dev"

• Accept the license agreements (Eclipse Public License EPL 2.0)
• The plugins aren't signend (yet) so please choose to trust them.
• Restart z/OS Explorer

Install standalone

Prereq

• Git
• JDK 17 (necessary for the tycho build, the plugins only need JDK 8)
• Apache maven 3.6+

Build it

• Clone the de.tgmz.zdev repository
• Open the high level pom.xml and locate the org.eclipse.tycho:target-platform-configuration plugin
• The configuration section defaults to Windows, *nix and MacOS are commented out, so adjust it to your environment.
• Run mvn verify -Pmaterialize -Djcs.skip=true -DskipTests=true
• Unzip de.tgmz.zdev/de.tgmz.zdev.product/target/products/'your environment'