zIDE™ is a legacy-friendly integrated development environment that works with your existing host-based processes and library systems.

The purpose of zIDE™ is to allow programmers to upload and download source files in any language, edit them with modern graphical user interface conveniences, and compile or assemble them — all without requiring z/OS shops to make several expensive purchases and completely change the way they do things.

zIDE™ compiles or assembles programs by calling host-based scripts that you specify.