IDUG EMEA 2024

Db2 for z/OS is undergoing a seismic shift in its tooling portfolio at the moment, with the sunsetting of Data Studio and DSM, and the emergency of a VS Code plugin stack for desktop developers and a web based suite built around the Admin Foundation offering.  This talk will focus on the VS Code side that leverages The Open Mainframe Project Zowe Explorer and Db2 Developer for z/OS extension to provide a powerful and intuitive way to work with z/OS address spaces, jobs, stored procedures, ad-hoc SQL scripts, and more.   Zowe is fast becoming the new face of z/OS for folks doing mainframe education courses and this talk will cover the Zowe CLI as well as the Db2 CLP showing the differences and overlap and when to choose each one,  as well as the use of Zowe to build out DevOps pipelines to help simplify and automate software agility.