Up and Running(1) : IBM Db2 for z/OS Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code
This is hopefully the first of a number of articles in a series I've entitled "Up and Running" which will describe my early experiences using some new (to me) piece of technology. The rise in popularity of Visual Studio Code ( https://code.visualstudio.com/ ) has been one of the biggest phenomena in the development community over the last few years. There are many reasons for it including - It is cross-platform, supporting Windows, Mac and Linux It is open source It has a large, and constantly growing, library of extensions available Up until this point, the tool of choice for developers working with the Db2 family of databases has been IBM Data Studio. This is built on the Eclipse framework ( https://www.eclipse.org ) which became popular for many of the same reasons that VS Code is now becoming popular. The Achilles heel of Eclipse has always been that it is very resource-intensive. The Eclipse Foundation also has a next-generation IDE - Eclipse Che ( https://www.eclips