# How do I bring up a subset of Zowe?

**URL:** <https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/how-do-i-bring-up-a-subset-of-zowe/349>\
**Category:** Zowe\
**Created:** [April 26, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/how-do-i-bring-up-a-subset-of-zowe/349 "2019-04-26T15:15:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/how-do-i-bring-up-a-subset-of-zowe/349/1 "2019-04-26T15:15:32Z")

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There is a shell script /`scripts/internal/run-zowe.sh` in the Zowe runtime folder that launches each of the unix Java or Node processes via startup scripts

To disable any of the specific services comment out the lines by adding a preceeding # character that start the particular service

Web UI ZLUX node server is started by the line ending

```auto
zlux-app-server/bin && ./nodeServer.sh

```

so the update is to change the line

```auto
cd `dirname $0`/../../zlux-app-server/bin && ./nodeServer.sh --allowInvalidTLSProxy=true &

```

to

```auto
#cd `dirname $0`/../../zlux-app-server/bin && ./nodeServer.sh --allowInvalidTLSProxy=true &

```

The API mediation layer which uses Java is started by the three lines ending

```auto
api-mediation-start-discovery.sh
api-mediation-start-catalog.sh
api-mediation-start-gateway.sh

```

The z/OS REST APIs for data sets and Jobs uses Java and is started by the two lines ending

```auto
data-sets-api-server-start.sh
jobs-api-server-start.sh

```

The JES, USS and MVS explorers uses Node and run inside the Zowe web UI desktop and are started by the three lines ending

```auto
start-explorer-jes-ui-server.sh
start-explorer-mvs-ui-server.sh
start-explorer-uss-ui-server.sh

```