23PI2 Planning

[zFernand0]

Zowe SDK (Node.js and Python), CLI & Plug-ins

Complex z/OS Jobs and z/OS Files commands

Enable Zowe CLI users to perform more complex (jobs & files) tasks with single commands.

CLI Squad Plan:

• Extend zowe files copy data-set command to allow for copying across LPARs / z/OSMF instances #1098
• zowe files edit data-set & zowe files edit uss-file #1097

V3 Pre-release

• v3: Prepare vNext branch of the zowe-cli repository #1702
• v3: Migrate the @zowe/imperative package to the zowe-cli monorepo #1695
• v3: Remove V1 profile functionality in vNext (retaining the ability to convert from V1 to V2 configs) #1703

Address Items in the CLI and Imperative Backlogs

Take action in accordance with Community Guidelines to support Zowe CLI users and extenders, resolve defects, and implement beneficial enhancements suggested by members of the Zowe community.

CLI Squad Plan:

Enhancements

• Confirm / document combined config API use by extenders #913
• Improve user friendlyness error for listing members in a data set  #935
• Research Secure Storage for Zowe CLI on USS #1673
• Add life-cycle hooks to the sample plug-in zowe-cli-sample-plugin#84
• ProfileInfo: Add support for any properties specified in zowe.config.json imperative#899
• [Stretch] Add flag to zowe config profiles to include file locations  #1692
• [Stretch] https://github.com/zowe/imperative/discussions/828
• [Stretch] Introduce enhancements supporting the ZE FTP Copy feature zowe-cli-ftp-plugin#131

Bugs

• IssueTso.issueTsoCommand incomplete response / data loss #690
• Invalid block size is used by zowe files create data-set-sequential #1439
• zowe files create ds always assume secondary space of 1 #1595
• Config with both APIML and direct-connection profiles gets authentication errors #1868

[Stretch] Community Upvoted

• Provide a way to perform zowe plugin verify plugin-name or equivalent to assure the provenance of installed software #1326
• CLI ZOS-FILES command should support GDGs #969
• Zowe requires password when using SSH key for SSH command  #1034
• Fix overrides.CredentialManager:false inconsistencies #1469
• Unexpected command error when using SSH #1031
• Support the message transmission/reception API for TSO. #1566
• How to make sure that a file is deleted with one command? #866
• 401 when logout with expired token #1041
• zowe plugins validate returns always RC=0 #1299
• IZosFilesResponse in SDK Refers to Commands #865

OpenSSF Best Practices Badge

• Zowe CII Badge items for Zowe CLI #1352
  • Update shared Zowe spreadsheet with the latest information on the Zowe CLI project

Helpful links for OpenSSF Best Practices Badge criteria:

• Passing: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/criteria/0
• Silver: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/criteria/1
• Gold: https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/criteria/2

Zowe CLI / Zowe SDK Roadmap

(Carry-over) Complex z/OS Jobs and z/OS Files commands

• What problem are you solving?
  • Customers are looking for CLI commands that perform more complex (jobs & files) tasks to reduce scripting and make interactive CLI commands more efficient
• What are you doing to solve it?
  • Introduce several new CLI commands capable of performing multiple tasks in a single command
• When do you plan to start the work?
  • CY22Q3
• When do you plan to deliver the solution?
  • CY22Q4 (delayed until CY23Q2)

(Carry-over) Gold OpenSSF Best Practices Badge (Formerly CII Best Practices Badge)

• What problem are you solving?
  • The Zowe Project has not earned the gold OpenSSF Best Practices Badge, a requirement from LF/OMP that ensures the Open Source project satisfies FLOSS (Free/Libre & Open Source Software) Best Practices criteria
• What are you doing to solve it?
  • Review requirements and take necessary actions to satisfy them for the gold badge level
• When do you plan to start the work?
  • CY22Q3
• When do you plan to deliver the solution?
  • CY22Q4 (delayed until CY23Q3)

(Carry-over) Keytar Replacement

• What problem are you solving?
  • Mainframe customers demand trustworthy storage of secure values in Zowe CLI. With the sunset of the Atom organization who supplied the Keytar package, we would require an actively maintained alternative for secure credential storage
• What are you doing to solve it?
  • Implement a suitable replacement to the Keytar package with minimal impact to our end users
• When do you plan to start the work?
  • CY23Q1
• When do you plan to deliver the solution?
  • CY23Q3

(Carry-over) Zowe CLI on Unix System Services (USS)

• What problem are you solving?
  • Mainframe customers like to experiment with Zowe without requiring desktop software (i.e. SYSPROGS want to run CLI commands on z/OS) as part of their experimentation or enterprise use with Zowe CLI
• What are you doing to solve it?
  • Certify and document how to use Zowe CLI on z/OS (USS)
  • Implement secure credential management, otherwise credentials are in plain-text
• When do you plan to start the work?
  • CY23Q1
• When do you plan to deliver the solution?
  • CY23Q4

SDK Conformance and LTS Status

• What problem are you solving?
  • Mainframe developers are interested in extending the existing SDKs in order to create applications for their services
• What are you doing to solve it?
  • Solidify the SDK Conformance guidelines for:
    • New Services (like CICS SDK)
    • New Programming languages (like Kotlin SDK)
  • Prepare the SDKs technically and logistically for conformance
  • Apply for (and achieve) conformance for existing SDKs
  • Release the SDKs as LTS
• When do you plan to start the work?
  • CY23Q2
• When do you plan to deliver the solution?
  • CY23Q4

(Stretch) Zowe Client Mentorship Opportunity: Enhancing the Python SDK

• What problem are you solving?
  • Consumers of the Python SDK are requesting enhancements, including support for Zowe V2 team configuration files
• What are you doing to solve it?
  • Leverage the mentorship program to deliver enhancements to the existing SDK
• When do you plan to start the work?
  • CY23Q2
• When do you plan to deliver the solution?
  • CY23Q4

Postponed Objectives

For more details, please see the 2023 PI1 Planning Objectives

• Zowe App Store Participation
• In-memory Credential Management & Identity Tokens
• Zowe CLI Containerization

[adam-wolfe]

23PI2 has ended.