Getting IBM Z Open Editor to work with z/VM (CMS)

[vmdave9]

Wow!! This is quiet a piece of work; very impressive. It would be great to get this to work with z/VM (CMS) as well as z/OS, and we use the same languages (PL/I, Rexx, HLASM) and other tools.
I have the time to work on this if anyone there is interested.
Thanks again.
DJ
[email protected]

[phaumer]

@vmdave9 thanks. Could you provide some more details about what you have in mind? Which specific use cases would you like to see. With our Zowe Explorer integration we cover a large set of z/OS use cases utilizing IBM's RSE and z/OSMF. What specifically are you missing? Any direct interactions with z/VM CMS are currently not in our scope; perhaps this is something to discuss in the Zowe project?

[vmdave9]

Hello, Peter. Many thanks for your response back to my request. What we (the z/VM community) are missing is the ability to seamlessly edit CMS files in the editor....from the editor specify a file that is downloaded via FTP (or some other method like IND$FILE), edit it with all the tools available in the editor and then automatically save that file back to the z/VM host. We don't need anything like Zowe or z/OSMF as we already have other ways of doing those functions in the z/VM environment. It's my impression and correct me if I am wrong, that Zowe and z/OSMF are meant to be attractive, easy-to-use, interfaces to allow folks that have little understanding of the z/OS internal workings to be able to manage z/OS systems at least in some sense. That's not at all what we are interested in because the z/VM environment is orders of magnitude simpler than z/OS. Does this help make the scope of the proposed project more acceptable? We can discuss this in more detail if you'd like. Take care. Dave Jones DJ

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On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 10:15 AM Peter Haumer ***@***.***> wrote: @vmdave9 <https://github.com/vmdave9> thanks. Could you provide some more details about what you have in mind? Which specific use cases would you like to see. With our Zowe Explorer integration <https://ibm.github.io/zopeneditor-about/Docs/setup_integration.html> we cover a large set of z/OS use cases utilizing IBM's RSE and z/OSMF. What specifically are you missing? Any direct interactions with z/VM CMS are currently not in our scope; perhaps this is something to discuss in the Zowe project? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#150 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ALJZM4MNFZ56QJCO4CUAMGDT6UCI3ANCNFSM5CQ4GRHQ> . Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS <https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1477376905?ct=notification-email&mt=8&pt=524675> or Android <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.android&utm_campaign=notification-email> .

[vmdave9]

I forgot to add in my last note, Peter, that I am willing to do (some, most, all?) of the work involved here, too. DJ

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On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 10:15 AM Peter Haumer ***@***.***> wrote: @vmdave9 <https://github.com/vmdave9> thanks. Could you provide some more details about what you have in mind? Which specific use cases would you like to see. With our Zowe Explorer integration <https://ibm.github.io/zopeneditor-about/Docs/setup_integration.html> we cover a large set of z/OS use cases utilizing IBM's RSE and z/OSMF. What specifically are you missing? Any direct interactions with z/VM CMS are currently not in our scope; perhaps this is something to discuss in the Zowe project? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#150 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ALJZM4MNFZ56QJCO4CUAMGDT6UCI3ANCNFSM5CQ4GRHQ> . Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS <https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1477376905?ct=notification-email&mt=8&pt=524675> or Android <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.android&utm_campaign=notification-email> .

[phaumer]

Hello @vmdave9 if there is an FTP server then did you try with Zowe Explorer's FTP extension? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Zowe.zowe-explorer-ftp-extension
It is build on the Zowe FTP CLI plugin, which is available here: https://github.com/zowe/zowe-cli-ftp-plugin

[vmdave9]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

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On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 4:29 PM Peter Haumer ***@***.***> wrote: Hello @vmdave9 <https://github.com/vmdave9> if there is an FTP server then did you try with Zowe Explorer's FTP extension? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Zowe.zowe-explorer-ftp-extension It is build on the Zowe FTP CLI plugin, which is available here: https://github.com/zowe/zowe-cli-ftp-plugin — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#150 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ALJZM4JLK22LLXSH5FVCDFTT6VODXANCNFSM5CQ4GRHQ> . Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS <https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1477376905?ct=notification-email&mt=8&pt=524675> or Android <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.android&utm_campaign=notification-email> .

[phaumer]

Sounds good. Moving this item to the Discussions section for now.