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  • 1.  Brightside v4.0.7 with Zowe v2.8 Long-Term Support (LTS) Is Now Available

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 15, 2023 10:41 AM
    Edited by Ana Ceron May 15, 2023 11:54 AM

    Hello Brightside community!

    The Brightside team is pleased to announce the release of Brightside v4.0.7.

    This release includes:

    • CICS Plug-in for Zowe CLI fix
    • Endevor Plug-in for Zowe CLI enhancements and bug fixes
    • IBM MQ Plug-in for Zowe CLI fix
    • z/OS FTP Plug-in for Zowe CLI enhancements and bug fixes
    • Zowe 2.8 enhancements and fixes

      • Zowe CLI enhancements and fixes

      • Zowe CLI Imperative Framework enhancements and fixes

    CICS Plug-in for Zowe CLI

    • Fix: Updated xml2js dependency to resolve security vulnerability.

    Endevor Plug-in for Zowe CLI

    • Added new commands to read Endevor configuration tables and members:

      • list defaults: Lists the contents of the main Endevor configuration table (C1DEFLTS).

      • list dialog: Lists the contents of the Endevor ISPF dialog defaults table (ENDIECFG).

      • list features: Lists the contents of the Endevor optional features table (ENCOPTBL).

      • list symbols: Lists the Endevor site symbols.

      • list type-sequence: Lists the Endevor type sequence.

    • Added asynchronous REST API mode support:

      • asynchronous parameter added to all commands whose REST API endpoints support asynchronous mode.

      • New command list tasks: Lists asynchronous tasks submitted by the user.

      • New command retrieve result: Retrieves the output of a finished asynchronous task.

    • Added new commands to list processor groups:

      • list processor-groups: Lists processor groups.

      • list processor-symbols: Lists processor group symbol overrides.

    • Added new parameter for commands add/update/retrieve/view/print element and print components:
      • charset (for text elements only): Specifies the encoding of an element input, or requests a command output to use the specified encoding.

    • Added new command to verify an Endevor instance:

      • check instance: Returns the result of an Endevor Web Services health check for an instance.

    • Added new parameters available on update element command:

      • --sync, --sync-with-history, --sync-fingerprint: Use element in out-of-sync resolution.

    • Workspace synchronization now ignores trailing whitespace when detecting changed local files.

    • Fixes:

      • Overall command status incorrect for initialize workspace and confirm resolution in object response format (--rfj).

      • Attempting to initialize an existing workspace results in a [WARN] message and status code.

      • In REST API V1 compatibility mode, fixed inconsistent json response format for failed actions.

    IBM MQ Plug-in for Zowe CLI

    • Fix: Updated GitHub repository URL in package.json.

    z/OS FTP Plug-in for Zowe CLI

    • Updated example of upload file-to-data-set command in the plug-in help.

    Zowe v2.8 enhancements and fixes

     

    Zowe CLI v7.13.0 includes the following updates:

    • Updated Imperative to add --prune option to zowe config securecommand. [Imperative #547]

    • Added range option to the zos-files view uss-file command.

    • Fix: Updated encoding option for the zos-files view uss-file command. [#1495]

    • Fix: Added notification that encoding, binary, and record options conflict on the zos-files view data-set and zos-files view uss-file commands.

    • Fix: Updated Imperative to fix the zowe auth li and zowe auth lo aliases. [Imperative #964]

    • Fix: Updated URI encoding on zos-jobs commands. [#1596]

    • Fix: Updated Imperative to fix an error on Windows preventing plug-ins from installing if a local file or directory contains a space. [Imperative #959]

    • Fix: Updated daemon executable to resolve technical debt.

    • Fix: Fixed URI encoding on zos-files commands. [#1073]

    • Fix: Solved daemon issue where Windows usernames were treated as case-sensitive when checking the daemon process owner during Zowe commands.

     

    Zowe CLI Imperative Framework v5.12.0 includes the following updates:

    • Added --prune option to zowe config secure command to delete unused properties. [#547]

    • Fix: Updated the login and logout handlers, fixing the li and lo aliases.

    • Added credMgrOverride property to IProfOpts interface that can be used to override credential manager in the ProfileInfo API. [Zowe CLI #1632]

    • Deprecated: The requireKeytar property on the IProfOpts interface. Use the credMgrOverride property instead and pass the callback that requires Keytar to ProfileCredentials.defaultCredMgrWithKeytar.

    • Added AbstractPluginLifeCycle to enable plug-ins to write their own postInstall and preUninstall functions, which will be automatically called by the zowe plugins install and uninstall commands.

    • Added pluginLifeCycle property to IImperativeConfig to enable a plug-in to specify the path name to its own module which implements the AbstractPluginLifeCycle class.

    • Added a list of known credential manager overrides. When a credential manager cannot be loaded, a list of valid credential managers will be displayed in an error message.

    • Added a CredentialManagerOverride class containing utility functions to replace the default CLI credential manager or restore the default CLI credential manager. Plug-ins which implement a credential manager override can call these utilities from their AbstractPluginLifeCycle functions.

    • Added the documentation How to override the Zowe CLI default credential manager to describe the techniques for overriding the default CLI credential manager with a plug-in.

    • Fix: Fixed broken plug-in install command for Windows when file has a space in the name.

    • Fix: Fixed plug-in install error not displayed correctly. [#954]

    • Fix: Fixed environment file not applying to daemon client environment variables.

    • Added ~/.<cli_name>.env.json file to provide environment variables to the Imperative framework during Imperative initialization.

      • Allows sites without environment variable access to specify process-specific environment variables.

      • Changes require daemon reload to take effect.

      • SDK method is available as part of EnvFileUtils export.

    For information about how to download Zowe CLI, Zowe CLI plug-ins, and other Zowe components, see Download Zowe CLI from Broadcom Support in the Prepare for Installation section of the Brightside documentation.

    For information about how to install Zowe CLI, Zowe CLI Plug-ins, and other Zowe components, see Installing in the Brightside documentation.

    For information about updates and changes to Zowe CLI and other Zowe components, see New Features in the Release Notes section of the Brightside documentation.



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    Ana X. Ceron
    Senior Technical Writer
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