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IBM® Wazi for Red Hat® CodeReady Workspaces

IBM® Wazi for Red Hat® CodeReady Workspaces (IBM® Wazi Development Client), delivers cloud-native developer experience, enabling development and testing of IBM z/OS application components in containerized, z/OS sandbox environment on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform running on x86 hardware, and providing capability to deploy applications into production on native z/OS running on IBM Z hardware. IBM® Wazi Development Client is a development environment that provides an in-browser IDE with a single-click developer workspace with the capabilities to code, edit, build, and debug.

IBM® Wazi Development Client is built on the Red Hat® CodeReady Workspaces project. The core functionality for Red Hat® CodeReady Workspaces is provided by an open-source project called Eclipse Che. IBM Wazi Development Client uses Kubernetes and containers to provide your team with a consistent, secure, and zero-configuration development environment that interacts with your IBM Z® platform.

IBM® Wazi Development Client provides a modern experience for mainframe software developers working with z/OS applications in the cloud. Powered by the open-source projects Zowe™ and Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces, IBM® Wazi Development Client offers an easy, streamlined on-boarding process to provide mainframe developers the tools they need. Using container technology and stacks, IBM® Wazi Development Client brings the necessary technology to the task at hand.

Features

IBM® Wazi Development Client provides a custom stack for mainframe developers with the all-in-one mainframe development package that includes the following capabilities:

  • Modern mainframe editor with rich language support for COBOL, JCL, Assembler (HLASM), and PL/I that provide language-specific features such as syntax highlighting, outline view, declaration hovering, code completion, snippets, a preview of copybooks, copybook navigation, and basic refactoring using IBM® Z Open Editor
  • Source code management (SCM) integration to enable integration with any flavor of Git, a popular and modern parallel development SCM
  • Intelligent build capability that enables developers to perform a user build with IBM Dependency Based Build for any flavor of Git
  • Integrations that enable developers to work with z/OS resources such as MVS™ and UNIX® files and JES jobs
  • Connectivity to Z host using Zowe™ Explorer
  • Running user builds using IBM® Z User Build
  • Interacting with the IBM® Remote System Explorer API
  • Mainframe Development package with custom plugin and devfile registry support using the IBM® Wazi Development Client stack