Scheduler Viewer Extension for z/OS is an extension for Visual Studio Code that helps with 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}".
JS string interpolation 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".
