Release notes

Learn about what is new, changed, removed, and known issues in Zowe.

Zowe Version 1.1.0 and later releases include the following enhancements, release by release.

• Version 1.1.0 (April 2019)

Version 1.1.0 (April 2019)

Version 1.1.0 contains the following changes since the last 1.0.x version.

What's new in Zowe system requirements

z/OSMF Lite is now available for non-production use such as development, proof-of-concept, demo and so on. It simplifies the setup of z/OSMF with only a minimal amount of z/OS customization, but provides key functions that are required. For more information, see Configuring z/OSMF Lite (for non-production use).

What's new in the Zowe App Server

• Made the following user experience improvements:
  • Enabled the Desktop to react to session expiration information from the Zowe Application Server. If a user is active the Desktop renews their session before it expires. If a user appears inactive they are prompted and can click to renew the session. If they don't click, they are logged out with a session expired message.
  • Added the ability to programmatically dismiss popups created with the "zlux-widgets" popup manager.
• Made the following security improvements:
  • Encoded URIs shown in the App Server 404 handler, which prevents some browsers from loading malicious scripts.
  • Documented and support configuring HTTPS on ZSS.
  • For ZSS API callers, added HTTP response headers to instruct clients not to cache HTTPS responses from potentially sensitive APIs.
• Improved the Zowe Editor App by adding app2app communication support that allows the application to open requested directories, dataset listings, and files.
• Improved the Zowe App API by allowing subscription to close events on viewports instead of windows, which allows applications to better support Single App Mode.
• Fixed a bug that generated an extraneous RACF audit message when you started ZSS.
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes move application windows when you attempted to resized them.
• Fixed a bug in the "Getting started with the ZOWE WebUi" tutorial documentation.
• Fixed a bug that caused applications that made ZSS service requests to fail with an HTTP 401 error because of dropped session cookies.

What's new in the Zowe CLI and Plug-ins

This release of Zowe CLI contains the following new and improved capabilities:

• Added APIs to allow the definition of workflows
• Added the option max-concurrent-requests to the zowe zos-files upload dir-to-uss command
• Added the option overwrite to the zowe zos-workflows create commands
• Added the option workflow-name to the zowe zos-workflows commands
• Added the following commands along with their APIs:
  • zowe zos-workflows archive active-workflow
  • zowe zos-workflows create workflow-from-data-set
  • zowe zos-workflows create workflow-from-uss-file
  • zowe zos-workflows delete active-workflow
  • zowe zos-files list uss-files

This release of the Plug-in for IBM DB2 Database contains the following new and improved capabilities:

• Implemented command line precedence, which lets users issue commands without the need of a DB2 profile.
• The DB2 plug-in can now be influenced by the ZOWE_OPT_ environment variables.

What's new in API Mediation Layer

• Made the following user experience improvements:
  • Documented the procedure for changing the log level of individual code components in Troubleshooting API ML.
  • Documented a known issue when the API ML stops accepting connections after z/OS TCP/IP is recycled in the Troubleshooting API ML.