Mainframe Navigation

Mainframe Navigation allows you to access and manipulate objects stored on a mainframe from Eclipse. These objects include datasets and members, as well as system objects such as active jobs or the console under the z/OS operating system. With Mainframe Navigation, the objects are displayed in a tree structure and can be browsed and edited in Eclipse. On the mainframe server, Mainframe Navigation is supported by Natural ISPF.

This documentation is organized under the following headings:

Installation and Configuration How to install and configure Mainframe Navigation. Prerequisites on the mainframe server.
Accessing an Entire System Server Environment About the Mainframe Navigation view. How to map the mainframe environment in which the Entire System Server nodes have been defined.
Managing the Server Nodes Explains the operations that can be performed on a server node.
Listing and Filtering Objects How to list objects and how to reduce the number of shown objects. Detailed information on how to list and filter a specific type of object is provided in the appropriate section later in this documentation which deals which this type of object.
General Commands for Managing Different Types of Objects How to edit, browse and delete objects, how to refresh the display, how to display the properties of an object, and how to display information in the Console view of Eclipse. The descriptions in this section apply to all types of objects. They are not repeated in later sections of this documentation which deal with the different types of objects.
Managing z/OS Objects How to manage z/OS datasets, PDS members, volumes, jobs and active jobs.
System Log How to browse the system log.
Console How to browse the console.