I seem to be having some difficulty hooking this up. What connection type are you using (e.g. FTP, SSH, Telnet)? I have been able to get connected using FTP, but listing MVS datasets does not seem to work for me. Also, where did you specify the IBM 1047 encoding? I have not been able to track that down.

Connection Type should be “SHH Only”. Once the connection is established to a specific server, edit the connection properties by right clicking on the connection name and select “Host” and you should see the “Default Encoding” selection. Make sure you specific IBM-1047 as the default. Let us know if this helps.

After establishing a SSH connection, although you will be able to open files from the remote file system, a file may not be readable depending upon the file type. ( Example: .c files ). To resolve this, while the file is open navigate to Eclipse’s main menu: File -> Properties -> Text File Encoding and change the default to Other: IBM-1047 and apply.

I was successful in connecting, but was only able to get easy access to USS files. Access to z/OS native datasets was problematic.

There is an ‘IBM Explorer for z/OS’ Eclipse plugin at

http://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/software/htp/zos/tools/aqua/

that provides some additional tools such as a simpler interface to MVS datasets and the JES queue. There is a server side component that can be installed on z/OS, but I was able to get quite a lot using a basic FTP connection.