Zowe CLI Tasks Plugin

Note: This is a work in progress plugin and should be considered an alpha state. Functionality is subject to change.

Installing:

zowe plugins install @zowe/tasks-for-zowe-cli

Use cases:

Consolidate your Zowe build/script logic into a single Yaml file
Consolidate the input to your Zowe automation in a single file (no need for multiple profiles)
Quickly write automation using the power of Zowe CLI and it's plugins
Build common "workflow"-style tasks that can be shared and reused
Speed up your automation by running tasks asynchronously and commands in a single process

The Zowe CLI tasks plugin allows you to write sets of automation tasks in a Yaml config, similar to how you configure jobs and workflows using build tools like CircleCI, Drone, Travis, etc.

For example, a common workflow might be:

Render a batch job from a template file for submission
Submit the batch job
Wait for the job to complete
Verify that the Job finished CC 0000

You can now script these actions in Yaml. For example, here is submitting a job and extracting the jobname and jobid for use in future actions:

...
      - name: "submitIefbr14Job"
        desc: "Submit the rendered IEFBR14"
        action:
          type: "cmd"
          run: "jobs submit lf"
        mergeArgs:
          - zosmfArgs
        args:
          localFile: rendered/iefbr14.jcl
        jsonExtractor: 
          jobid: "$.data.jobid"
          jobname: "$.data.jobname"
...

From a task's "action" you can run any of the following:

Any Zowe CLI command (or plugin command) you have installed (e.g. zowe jobs ls jobs)
Any host command (e.g. ls -la)
Inline JavaScript function (sync or async)
A built in function (provided by the tasks plugin)
A JavaScript script file that contains the appropriate default export

Checkout a short tutorial to learn about Zowe tasks and the yml configuration file.

Checkout the example directory for a more complete example.

For reference and in-depth information, checkout the config documentation.