VMS IDE Quick Start

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These are quick instructions for using VMS IDE for those already familiar with Visual Studio Code. They assume you have VSCode installed.

The way VMS IDE works is it connects a directory on Linux/Windows/wherever VSCode is installed to a directory on VMS and synchronizes your files between these directories, so you can edit in VSCode and then build/run on VMS. So, before you start, you need a working SSH connection to a VMS system (username/password or keyfile) with a directory on it where you will be working.

Setting Up VMS IDE

1. Download the VMS IDE extension.

2. Download and unzip this workspace template.

3. Click File -> Open Workspace from File and choose ide-test.code-workspace from the workspace template directory.

4. Inside of VMS IDE, open ide-test.code-workspace and fill in your hostname or IP, username, and password or keyfile for the OpenVMS system.

5. Inside of VMS IDE, open .vscode/settings.json and fill in the vmssoftware.synchronizer.project.root with the path to your directory on VMS relative to the login directory of the user (for example, if you're JDOE and the directory is [JDOE.IDETEST], write "idetest"; if it's [JDOE.DEV.IDETEST], write "dev/idetest").

6. Put your project files that you will be working on in your new workspace directory. To start working on them, perform a full zip upload; press Ctrl+P and choose VMS-IDE: Upload files via Zip. If everything went well, check out your files on VMS, otherwise examine the log.

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