Hello,
We are in the process of automating a series of tasks in VS Code, in the tasks.json we defined a couple of tasks. Most of them are simple tasks, that can be executed by triggering a zowe command.
Example :
{
"label": "01 Clone ZMF package to local Git Repo",
"type": "shell",
"command": "git",
"args":[
"clone",
"ZMF://${input:zmfSubsys}/${input:zmfPackage}",
"C:/Users/${env:USERNAME}/.zmfGitrepo/${input:zmfPackage}"
],
"problemMatcher": [],
},
or
{
"label": "04 Audit ZMF Package",
"type": "shell",
"command": "zowe",
"args": [
"changemanzmf",
"audit",
"package",
"-p",
"${input:zmfPackage}",
"--zmf-p",
"${input:zmfSubsys}",
"--uv1",
"CAUD"
],
"problemMatcher": [],
},
Now some of the tasks are more complex, where we need the execution of a REST API followed by data manipulations or multiple REST APIs to be executed to create a zowe comand (or a final REST API that will perform an action)
Example
{
"label": "02 Create/Recreate ZMF Package zOpenEditor YAML file (SYSLIB)",
"type": "shell",
"command": "python",
"args":[
"-u",
"C:/Users/${env:USERNAME}/.zmfPython/zmfZOpenEditorYaml.py",
"--zmfPackage", "${input:zmfPackage}",
"--zmfZoweProfile", "${input:zmfZoweProfile}",
"--zmfUser", "${input:zmfUser}",
"--zmfPswd", "${input:zmfPswd}"
],
"problemMatcher": [],
},
As you can see, here a python script is executed and the z/OS user and password are required as, we must authenticate in the REST API call.
resp = requests.get(restApiUrl, auth=(user, pswd), headers=headers, timeout=10)
The problem however is that the password remains visible when executing the python script.
We would rather use the userid/password from the zowe profile, but I have tried in various ways and this seems not possible. We also don’t want to use a task to create some encrypted file with the user/password
My question (s)
1. Is it possible to use the zowe token as authenticator
2. Is there another way to execute the REST API using a certificate
Thank you
Johan
