Get the most out of your DevOps tool chain by optimizing the mainframe developer experience. Give your development teams access to the modern tools they are familiar with using BMC AMI DevX Workbench for VS Code. Empower your next generation developers to choose the tools they love to boost productivity and deliver innovations more frequently and faster.

Reach your full DevOps potential by leveraging VS Code extensions

With access to modern development tools, organizations powered by the mainframe can easily change and maintain their mainframe investments to deliver new innovations faster and more frequently to their end users. Leveraging modern tools enables organizations to attract new developer talent and speed their productivity. BMC AMI DevX Workbench for VS Code provides developers a frictionless, visually intuitive experience to quickly and easily make changes to code and debug.

Optimize the mainframe developer experience

BMC AMI DevX Workbench Explorer: Modernize the mainframe developer experience

• Quick access to mainframe resources using the Host Communications Interface (HCI)
• Easily connect to the mainframe server to search and filter data sets and members
• Browse and edit code using locking mechanisms, then save changes to the mainframe
• Automatically download copybooks and refresh on demand
• Quickly perform various data set and member operations- delete, rename, allocate, refresh, recall etc.
• Submit Job Control Language (JCL) and monitor job status using Job Explorer

BMC AMI DevX Workbench Code Debug: Efficiently debug mainframe applications with the touch of a button

• Perform batch debugging of COBOL, PL/1, C, and Assembler programs
• Specify loadlibs, DDIO and log data set in debug configurations
• Execute common debug operations – Watch variables, conditional breakpoint etc.