Issue UNIX Command Capability

[JillieBeanSim]

Describe the solution you'd like

Would like to see a right click action for Issue UNIX Command and have it available via the Zowe Explorer API like we have Issue TSO Command and Issue MVS Command.

For zOSMF profile users we could have a check for an SSH profile. Some extenders may have their own APIs to issue UNIX Commands so we would need to consider that as well.

[Joe-Winchester]

This would be great ! Very often I find myself using Zowe Explorer to edit .sh files and then wanting to run them, and if I could right mouse and "Run as shell script" this would be great. It might want to add parms like "myscript.sh -o options" so maybe there is a general "Issue UNIX command" that can be run against a file that opens a general prompt (and runs the script with cwd inside that directory) and against a file if it detects it's .sh pre-fills the prompt with the file name to allow args to be added

[Joe-Winchester]

Awesome to see this in PI2.

Q. To do this from the USS tree it'd be great to have a way to associate a z/OSMF profile with an SSH one, and also likewise to this for TSO, and allow it to be extended to other types. Maybe have an association sshProfile and tsoProfile to be added to a zosmf (or ftp or otherwise base profile type), so that the Issue TSO command in the Data Sets view or Issue SSH command in the USS view can link to the associated profile. If an associated profile is not present the user with a drop down list of TSO or USS profiles to run the command, but then persist that back in the configuration file so next time they aren't prompted.

 "zosmf_3b": {
            "type": "zosmf",
            "properties": {
                "host": "a.b.c.d",
                "port": 443,
                "rejectUnauthorized": false,
                "protocol": "https",
                "sshProfile": "ssh_3b",
                "tsoProfile": "tso_3b"
            }
        },
 ...
       "tso_3b": {
            "type": "tso",
            "properties": {
                "account": "",
                "codePage": "1047",
                "logonProcedure": "IZUFPROC"
            },
            "secure": []
        },
        "ssh_3b": {
            "host": "a.b.c.d",
            "type": "ssh",
            "properties": {
                "port": 22
            },
            "secure": []
        },
        

[JillieBeanSim]

moving to High Priority due to upvotes

[Joe-Winchester]

This issue could be a pre-req for issue #2113, which is a request to be able to issue a chtag command from the USS tree to be able to change file tagging, which can be done by issuing a targeted shell command.

[JillieBeanSim]

I believe this would be implemented easily into v3 when only v2 profiles are supported and in most cases the ssh profile is added upon config creation.

[fbeyl]

Please note that issue #2113 can be delivered through the z/OSMF API, there is no need for ssh. This is useful for those who only have z/OSMF and no SSH to connect to.