File Master Plus Plug-in for Zowe CLI

The File Master Plus Plug-in for Zowe CLI helps you quickly create, edit, and manipulate files in virtual storage access method (VSAM), sequential, and partitioned data sets.

• How the Plug-in Works
• Software Requirements
• Installing
• Create a File Master Plus Profile
• Uninstalling
• Example Use Cases

How the Plug-in Works

• The plug-in defines an FMP profile to manage the connection information, which is required to access the FMP API.
• It implements a local API to interface with the relevant API on the server.
• The plug-in creates a wrapping CLI around the local API to provide the command-line function.

Software Requirements

Before you install and use the plug-in, complete the following tasks:

1. Install Zowe CLI on your computer. For more information, see Installing Zowe CLI.
2. Ensure that File Master Plus version 12 or later is installed and running in your mainframe environment.
3. Complete one of the following two tasks:
   • Integrate the FMP REST API with the API Mediation Layer (API ML).
   • Connect the plug-in directly to the File Master Plus REST API.

For more information, see the File Master Plus documentation.

Installing

To install the plug-in, use the online registry. For more information, see Installing Zowe CLI plug-ins.

After the installation process completes, it validates that the plug-in was installed correctly and that the names of its commands, options, and arguments do not conflict with those of your other Zowe CLI plug-ins.

If the validation process is successful, the following message displays:

Validation results for plugin 'file-master-plus-for-zowe-cli':
Successfully validated.

If an unsuccessful message displays, troubleshoot the installation by addressing the issues that the message describes. You can also review the information in the log file in the Zowe CLI home directory.

Create a File Master Plus Profile

Create a File Master Plus profile to avoid entering your connection details each time that you issue a command. You can create multiple profiles and switch between them as needed. Use one of the following methods to create a profile:

• Create a profile using a configuration file
• Create a profile using a command

We recommend that you create profiles using the configuration file. We do not recommend using profile commands because we are removing the commands from Brightside in a future major release.

Create a File Master Plus Profile using a Configuration File

When you issue various zowe config commands, such as init, auto-init, and convert-profiles, they create a zowe.config.json configuration file. If the File Master Plus plug-in is installed when you issue one of these commands, the command automatically adds a profile for a File Master Plus profile to your zowe.config.json configuration file.

Alternatively, you can create a File Master Plus profile manually by adding a section that contains the configuration details to your zowe.config.json configuration file.

1. Navigate to the following directory: C:\Users\<username>\.zowe.
2. Open the zowe.config.json configuration file using a text editor or IDE.
   Note: If the file does not exist, issue the following command to create the configuration file: zowe config init --gc
3. Add the following JSON to the "profiles" section of the configuration file.

"fmp_profile": {  
    "type": "fmp",  
    "properties": {  
        "host": "example.com",  
        "port": 12345,  
        "protocol": "http",  
        "user": "johndoe",  
        "password": "qwerty",  
        "rejectUnauthorized": false  
        },  
    },

4. Populate the following fields in the above JSON:
   • host (string)
     The host URL of your Testing Tools server instance
   • port (integer)
     The port number of your Testing Tools server instance
     Default: 51914
   • protocol (string)
     Specify "https" or "http".
     Default: https
   • user (string)
     Your mainframe username
   • password (string)
     Your mainframe password
   • rejectUnauthorized (boolean)
     Specify "false" to accept self-signed certificates.
     Default: true
5. Save the file.

You can now use your profile when you issue commands in the File Master Plus command group.

Create a File Master Plus Profile Using a Command

To create a profile using the zowe profiles create command, open a terminal window and issue the following command to view the command syntax:

zowe profiles create fmp -h

Submit the zowe profiles create fmp command with all parameters specified.

Example: zowe profiles create fmp fmp123 --host fmphost --port 19853 --user mfuser --pass m4pass --protocol http.

The result of the command displays as a success or failure message.

Uninstalling

To uninstall the plug-in, issue the following command:

zowe plugins uninstall @broadcom/file-master-plus-for-zowe-cli

Example Use Cases:

As an application developer, you can use the plug-in to perform the following tasks:

• CREATE
  Allocate a VSAM data set along with its components, copying the parameters of an existing VSAM file.
• POPULATE
  Populate a VSAM file with newly constructed test data stored in a JSON file.
• COPY
  Copy a whole VSAM file using only one CLI command. Selects desired parts of the source of a file and copies only those parts over to a new VSAM file.
• RENAME
  Rename a VSAM file with ARCHIVE as the second qualifier.
• DELETE
  Delete a VSAM file using Zowe CLI.