IBM Z Software
This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Z Software products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).
Shape the future of IBM!
We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:
Search existing ideas
Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,
Post your ideas
Post an idea.
Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.
Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.
Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use
Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.
IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.
ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.
We appreciate the thought and detail you put into this submission, and we hope the information shared is helpful to your needs.
Linux is not an officially supported platform for IBM Developer for z/OS. However, the instructions below describe a possible approach for running IDz on Linux.
The development team has conducted limited validation of IDz 17.0.3 on Ubuntu 24.04, and initial testing has been successful. Providing full official support would require significant long-term investment and broader platform coverage, and Linux is not currently a strategic platform for IDz on Eclipse.
We therefore offer this guidance on an as-is basis only. While we will continue to investigate issues that arise within already supported scenarios (as documented for IDz 16, including known limitations), we are not able to provide full official support for IDz on Linux at this time.
1. Download Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java and Web Developers 4.31 (2024-03) for Linux from: https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/2024-03/r
2. Download the IBM Developer for z/OS update-site from: https://ibm.github.io/mainframe-downloads/downloads.html
a. Select IBM Developer for z/OS p2
b. Check IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz or IDz EE) and click Select
c. Choose Aqua 3.4 (Eclipse V4.31)
d. Select Eclipse p2
e. Select Hosting an internal repository
f. Under Step 2, download the update-site ZIP from IBM Developer for z/OS V17.0.x after accepting the license agreement
3. Extract the downloaded Eclipse archive to your desired installation directory.
4. Launch Eclipse and create a new workspace.
5. In Eclipse, go to Help > Install New Software? > Add? > Archive?, and select the downloaded IDz update-site ZIP file.
6. Select IBM Developer for z/OS to install all components, then click Next.
7. When the Install Remediation page appears due to dependency conflicts, select: ?Update my installation to be compatible with the items being installed?, then click Next.
8. Click Next again, accept the license agreement, and click Finish.
9. When prompted about signed packages, select all items and click Trust Selected.
10. After installation completes, click Restart Now.
11. Once Eclipse restarts, IBM Developer for z/OS will be available for use.
Please let us know if there are any concerns or issues with this proposed workaround.
We support this request, as many of our workstations are Linux based.