If I understand the scenario, the OP has a 3270-based debugger product and wants to redeploy it as an Eclipse-based UI.
You may want to consider implementing a command-line or packet based command interface to the product. Then, it would be simple from your Eclipse plugin to start and converse with the program over an SSH connection. Eclipse already has the SSH framework in place, and your only prereq on z/OS would be IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH (a no-charge product). Consider the extant z/OS "dbx" debugger - it is a z/OS Unix command with a line mode interface. I haven't tried it, but I think that there are already plugins for the Eclipse CDT (C/C++ IDE) that allow you to remotely debug your code over a ssh/dbx connection. Not sure if they work with z/OS dbx though. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com +1 636.300.0901 PS> Tim kindly mentioned our "Dataset Pipes" component of the Co:Z Toolkit. This similarly uses ssh to securely connect data or processes to z/OS. There might be advantages to using this, but you may want to roll your ssh connection. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
