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JD Graph Extension for z/OS

JD Graph Extension for z/OS

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View, Submit, and Access JCLs and their logs from a graph view
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JD Graph Extension for z/OS

Job Discovery Graph Extension for z/OS. It's an extension for Visual Studio Code that speeds up JCL jobs development and execution.

This extension has been designed to help developers to have a global view of the JCL files they work with. It paints a graph with the selected job at the center. The central node's parents are the dependencies and the children are the dependents.

Features

  • Draws a graph with job relations.
  • Allows opening a graph from the context menu of a workspace file.
  • Can execute jobs and notifies when the job has ended.
    • Has the option to set-up environment variables in jcl files with the following formats:
      • Scheduler style "%%variable.".
      • XML style "<Variable>".
      • JSON style "{variable}".
  • Checks if required DataSets are present before execution.
  • Allows exporting the graph to a SVG file.

Requirements

  • To use this extension it is required an extraction process of the current scheduler's data.
  • To use the z/OS connection capabilities, it is required to have configured a ZOWE profile. A ZOWE profile, in turn, requires the mainframe to have "zosmf" or "rse api".

Extension Settings

  • Connection details to z/OS.
  • Configuration details of where to find the extracted scheduler's data (USS or MVS allowed).
  • Job execution policies.
    • Environment variables declaration.
    • Default Environment.
    • Enable/Disable datasets checking.

Known Issues

  • Datasets existence validation before job execution can fail if the dataset is created within same job. (You can disable datasets checking for this case until we deploy the fix.)

Soon a link will be provided with an issue tracker.

How to use

We have plans to create a public repository to provide the know-hows. As soon as it will be available, we will provide the link.

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