23PI2 Planning

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23PI2 Key Dates

Kickoff - 4/3/23, 9 am ET
PI Planning Day 1 - 4/26/23, 8 am - 11 am ET
ZE Planning Breakout - 4/27/23, 11 am ET
PI Planning Day 3 - 4/28/23, 9 am - 11 am ET

Zowe Explorer VS Code extension

v3 Pre-Release early availability

• [v3] Remove v1 profile support #2072
• ZE + ZFTP: Change the activationEvents to onStartupFinished #1910
• Group common methods into Singleton classes #2109
• Minimize the activate() function to have less chance of failure #1985
• Add madge to CI to track circular dependencies #2148
• [Stretch] Defer gathering attributes when listing datasets #2078
• [Stretch] Respond to TSO Prompts interactively (e.g. when recalling datasets) #2077

High Priority items and technical debt 

Enhancements

• Add support for custom credential manager extensions #2212
• zowe profiles create zosmf-profile allow specification of --console-name  #1667
• Migrate persistent data from user settings to local storage #2208
• Open solution for default file allocations settings #1425
• Provide support for changing file tags within Zowe Explorer #2113
• [Investigation] Improve experience for using API ML sessions in Zowe Explorer #2252 (SSO & MFA)
• [Stretch] Use vscode.FileSystemProvider for content downloaded from mainframe #2207

Bugs

• Zowe explorer writes logs into the wrong folder #1926
• submitting JCL using command palette and following link causes "cannot set property 'dirty' of undefined" error #1625
• Incorrect type in user settings for zowe.settings.version #2166
• Profile watcher should refresh profiles in browser based environments #2211
• Clicking "Disable validation for Profile" does nothing #1897
• Unable to toggle between Zowe Explorer & 3270 #2251

Tech Debt

• Tech Debt: Use path.join without / #2172
• Replace Webpack 4 with newer bundler #2214
• Replace Gulp 4 with new solution #2253
• [Stretch] Clean-up rediscovered code smells/duplication warnings #2063
• [Stretch] Integration tests improvements #2103

Golden CII Badge

• Make sure internal and external documentation meet the CII Badge standard.

Helpful links for CII 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

CICS VS Code extension

• V2: Failed to initialize Credential manager vscode-extension-for-cics#324

Roadmap

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

• 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

v3 Pre-Release availability

• 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

• 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

• 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