Frank, I asked my colleague, Billie Jean Simmons, about Zowe.
She said: 1. on the host you can either have the new RSE API or z/OSMF 2. With Zowe CLI installed locally the user can run command `zowe zosmf check status` and in Zowe Explorer 1.7.0+ there is a profile validation that run the check status. If the z/OS system has a firewall the user will need to go through it to connect to the z/OSMF apis. Yes the appropriate z/OS rights will be needed, Zowe with z/OSMF uses RACF groups https://docs.zowe.org/stable/user-guide/configure-zowe-zosmf-workflow.html 3. Zowe CLI can run on the client without VS Code, as well as the new RSE CLI Plug-in for Zowe CLI. 4. There is no separate step, when saving "host side" files the changes are uploaded to the host during the save. 5. I am not sure about REXX coverage at the moment. 6. This video shows how to get started with Zowe Explorer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_WCsFZIWt4 7. The best place to ask questions about Zowe would be the Open Mainframe Project Workspace on Slack https://slack.openmainframeproject.org/ #zowe-explorer channel for questions to them or the #general channel. Best regards, Daniel ---- Daniel Beall Software Developer, IBM E-mail: [email protected]
