Add new settings for default dataset & job sort orders

[Buckminsterfullerene02]

Proposed changes

As a daily user of Zowe Explorer, I have found it annoying that the default sort order for datasets and jobs is never the one I want. Therefore, the following two new settings are added:

• zowe.ds.default.sort
• zowe.jobs.default.sort

The new settings use the same defaults as is currently hardcoded for datasets and jobs.

The "(default)" added to the side of the sort order method is no longer hardcoded and is changed based on the settings.

Why do the setting have to be edited in settings.json? Because the alternatives (I thought of) are:

• Add 4 new settings instead: dataset sort method, dataset sort direction, job sort method, job sort direction, as dropdowns. This seems too much for such a minor setting.
• Have only 2 dropdowns as the above settings, but have the 8 and 10 permutations in each dataset and job dropdowns respectively. Also seems a bit excessive to me.

Another change that could be made, is to add sort order per dataset, and for jobs, as a persistence, like favourites. I actually started doing this as the first iteration of the feature, but realised the default settings would be easier to do at first, then try persistence, as it seems a bit more complex. Let me know what the thoughts on that are.

Release Notes

Milestone: todo

Changelog: todo

Types of changes

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Enhancement (non-breaking change which adds or improves functionality)
• Breaking change (a change that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Documentation (Markdown, README updates)
• Other (please specify above in "Proposed changes" section)

Checklist

General

• I have read the CONTRIBUTOR GUIDANCE wiki
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Further comments

This is my first contribution to this project. I have read as much of the contributor guidelines as I can, but there is a lot, so I'm sorry if I've forgotten or missed something. It also means that naturally I am still learning the codebase, so changes may be sub-par. Therefore, I have decided to open this as a draft PR with no test cases written yet. This isn't in the roadmap nor any issue has been raised, so I'd like to make sure the team is ok with this existing at all.

Lastly, I feel like my development iteration experience is too manual and that I must be missing something/doing something wrong. Currently, when I am making changes, I have pnpm watch:zowe-explorer script running. To build, I do pnpm install && pnpm run package. Then I go to extensions -> install from VSIX -> select zowe explorer. Then I must restart vscode (luckily it only takes a few seconds). When I want to look at debug logs, I need to manually open \.vscode\extensions\zowe.vscode-extension-for-zowe-3.1.0-SNAPSHOT\logs, which I also have to close (and not be in the folder in file explorer) for vscode to actually install the new VSIX file. What am I missing?

[adam-wolfe]

Hi @Buckminsterfullerene02, for faster debugging, you can run the extension by pressing F5 and the logs can be viewed in real time using the Output tab in the VS Code terminal area and selecting Zowe Explorer from the drop down menu.