2023 Zowe Explorer Roadmap

Zowe Explorer Supported Environments

COMPLETED

• What problem are you solving?
  • Users are submitting issues about Zowe Explorer not working in different environments.
• *What are you doing to solve it?
  • We plan to consider other environments requested by users, this will require research and depending on the research we will decide if support is feasible.
• When do you plan to start the work?
  • 22Q4
• When do you plan to deliver the solution?
  • 23Q1
• Delivered 23Q1

Updating GUI to use other types of notifications vs all pop ups

COMPLETED

• What problem are you solving?
  • Users would like to see less pop up notifications from Zowe Explorer to lessen the distractions that they cause in VS Code.
• *What are you doing to solve it?
  • Assess the types of notifications in place and decide how to proceed.
  • Implement the decided plan of action.
• When do you plan to start the work?
  • 22Q3
• When do you plan to deliver the solution?
  • 23Q2
• Delivered 23Q1

Improve logging and potential output view to better support end users

COMPLETED

• What problem are you solving?
  • Users would like better Logging from Zowe Explorer to help troubleshoot issues.
• *What are you doing to solve it?
  • We plan to creat a VS Code setting for log level
  • Using the setting we plan to output the appropriate logs to a VS Code Output view.
• When do you plan to start the work?
  • 22Q4
• When do you plan to deliver the solution?
  • 23Q2
• Delivered 23Q1

Enhancements to Extensibility APIs

COMPLETED

• What problem are you solving?
  • Extenders would like more robust Extensibility APIs to adopt for their VS Code Zowe Explorer extensions.
• What are you doing to solve it?
  • We will assess the long list of requested extensibility APIs for extenders and decide on which to complete and the precedence of them.
  • Implement the decided list of extensibility APIs in the order of precedence.
• When do you plan to start the work?
  • 23Q2
• When do you plan to deliver the solution?
  • 23Q3
• Delivered 23Q1

v3 Pre-Release availability

COMPLETED

• What problem are you solving?
  • Extenders will need to be aware of breaking changes in the upcoming major release of 3.0.0.
• What are you doing to solve it?
  • Publish a pre-release of v3 with documentation of breaking changes so Extenders will be able to begin their adoption early.
• When do you plan to start the work?
  • Work has already begun from pre-planning in the 2nd half of last year and implementation began at the beginning of this year.
• When do you plan to deliver the solution?
  • 23Q3

Add more functionality to the Jobs tree view

COMPLETED

• What problem are you solving?
  • Users would like a comparable experience working with JES files, Zowe Explorer doesn't have a lot of functionality in that tree compared to others.
• What are you doing to solve it?
  • Add more functionality to jobs in the tree, ie. local sorting, filtering, and more.
• When do you plan to start the work?
  • 23Q1
• When do you plan to deliver the solution?
  • 23Q4

Improve error handling

COMPLETED

• What problem are you solving?
  • Users would like error messages returned to be relevant to the error encountered and describe the issue clearly.
• What are you doing to solve it?
  • Make sure all errors are being handled appropriately and make sure the error message returned is helpful and understandable to the user.
• When do you plan to start the work?
  • 23Q1
• When do you plan to deliver the solution?
  • 23Q4