Zowe V3: Considered Changes

This is a list of the possible changes that the CLI squad has considered for the Zowe V3 release.

• Migrate the imperative into the zowe/cli monorepo
  • Rename it - "framework-for-zowe-sdk"
    • Renaming won't be done for V3
  • OR merge it into the @zowe/core-for-zowe-sdk package
    • Merging with core won't be done for V3
• Remove deprecated zowe profiles commands.
  • Keep zowe-v1-profile.READ for conversion purposes
    • Possibly add a Conformance criteria item around this
  • Replace the use of zowe profiles commands in automated tests.
• Remove deprecated constants, options and methods
  • https://github.com/zowe/imperative/issues/970
  • https://github.com/zowe/zowe-cli/issues/1694
  • https://github.com/zowe/vscode-extension-for-zowe/issues/2238
• Imp & CLI: Remove dual-logic for ZOWE_V3_ERR_FORMAT
• Update versions of dependencies to remain current - typescript, eslint, etc
• CLI: Deprecate @zowe/perf-timing now and remove for V3.
• ZE: Use FileSystemProvider class to access remote files (In progress)
• ZE: Add madge in CI to check for circular dependencies
• ZE: Migrate from CLI package to Zowe SDKs
• CLI: Change default error message behavior to colorized, condensed form. Create debug mode that shows larger error message. Relocate pertinent error details to top or bottom of screen in debug mode
• Deprecate Base profiles.
  • If time permits, deprecate in V2 AND decouple from future APIML profile types in V3.
• Deprecate the settings/imperative.json file AND Move those settings into the Team Config file
  • If CLI squad confirms that it can be implemented cleanly in the CredentialManager-related APIs.
• Add property validation (on by default?) for zowe config set based on schema
• ZE: Migrate settings from workspace config to localStorage (In progress)
• CLI: deprecate getDataSet from ZosFiles.utils in the @zowe/cli package and move it to the files SDK. Should we deprecate in V2 and remove in V3?
• Consider merging tokenType and tokenValue into tokens: { [key: string]: string }

  { 
     "apimlToken": "some-long-token-value",
     "zosmfToken": "some-long-token-value",
     "myServiceToken": "some-long-token-value"
  } 
  

• CLI: Conformance criteria for offline installability zowe-cli#1698
• CLI: Provide sample Jenkinsfiles
• Imp: Remove unused code that attempts to place the daemon on user's PATH
• Imp: add REST client methods that accept key-value object of query parameters
• ZE: ZoweDatasetNode should receive an options object for its constructor
• Imp: reorder (alphabetically) all command options in ICommandDefinition. (May affect plug-in developers)
• V4?: Imp: Rename ISession.hostname to host
• V4?: Refactor our collection of confusing auth handler APIs - IAuthHandlerApi, BaseAuthHandler, AbstractAuthHandler, ApimlAuthHandler, etc. Consider extenders like VSCEs and plugins.