Are you familiar with zowe cli and the ChangeMan ZMF plugin for zowe cli?

Using that, you can issue a ZMF zowe cli command to perform your Package Promote/Demote from within Jenkins within a python script or whichever scripting language you are using.

Here is a very simple sample Python script that demonstrates how to issue the ZMF cli commands to: 

1) retrieve a component from a package and place the retrieved source into a local folder by piping the output into that folder.

2) retrieve the list of copybook files associated with the component

3) for each copybook, parse the returned json and retrieve that copybook's source and pipe into the same folder as the component source. 

4) delete the folder that was created to hold the json response



All ZMF cli commands for zowe follow the same format.

 Thank you for the response! We will take a look at it and get back to you on how it goes. 

Hi  ,

I've tried some of these functions but I got some problems. As an example:

zowe zmf get cbp -h
Command Error:
Unknown argument: cbp
Command failed due to improper syntax
Did you mean: zmf get cbd?

Command entered: "zmf get cbp -h"
Available commands are "baseline, component, component-browse-dependencies, history-concurrent, history-current, history-language, component-load, component-source-include, component-source-include-locate, component-source-include-no-locate, dss, libtype-appl, library-baseline, log, package-search, package-genparms, libtype-package, parameters-appl, parameters-global, reasonscodes, restversion, site-appl, system-environment, zmf-environment".
Use "zowe zmf get --help" to view groups, commands, and options.
Error Details:
Unknown argument: cbp

So I've tried with the commands I've got in the list and I may get the source code using

zowe zmf browse pcomp -c "mycomponent" -t "mytype" -p "mypackage"

So I don't get if this sample is too old or too new for me: I've microfocus-zmf-cli-plugin-2.0.5.tgz

Could you please explain?

Thank you very much.

A full and complete list of available commands can be found by issuing a

zowe --hw  command

An example to retrieve a component from a package would be:

zowe zmf get component -p STEV001571 -t SRC -c ASMPGM33

or more simply

zowe zmf get component -p STEV00157 

will retrieve all

Thank you   but with "get component" I get the "informations" about the source:

I mean I get something like this

zowe zmf get component -c "PYTCX001" -t "COB" -p "BKA 000435" --zmf-profile "zmfx"
{
"message": "CMN8700I - LIST service completed",
"reasonCode": "8700",
"returnCode": "00",
"result": [
{
"applName": "BKA",
"batchChkOut": "N",
"buildProc": "COBB00",
"checkedOutHashToken": "EB8E531000001A3A",
"chkOutComponentDesc": "N",
"chkOutFromBaseLib": "N",
"chkOutFromRelease": "N",
"chkOutLevel": 0,
"chkOutToSernet": "N",
"chkOutToStageLib": "Y",
"component": "PYTCX001",
"componentStatus": "0",
"componentType": "COB",
"dataType": "1",
"dateLastEdited": "20240409",
"dateLastEditedUtc": "20240409",
"dateLastModified": "20240409",
"dateLastModifiedUtc": "20240409",
"editTsoid": "UANTS",
"hashToken": "909FEA7800001AEB",
"language": "COBOLE",
"lockComponent": "N",
"modLevel": 2,
"package": "BKA 000435",
"packageId": 435,
"recordType": "A",
"setssi": "78E54F67",
"sourceLib": "TCML.CHA000.STBKA.#000435.COB",
"sourceLibOrg": "PDS",
"targetComponent": "PYTCX001",
"targetLoadLibType": "LOB",
"timeLastEdited": "145904",
"timeLastEditedUtc": "125749",
"timeLastModified": "145954",
"timeLastModifiedUtc": "125954",
"updater": "UANTS",
"version": 1

So for getting source code for me works

zowe zmf browse pcomp  -c "PYTCX001" -t "COB" -p "BKA 000435" --zmf-profile "zmfx"

Reading changes in cli plugin I think that the line in the sample in this discussion

They are 2 different functions:

Yes, exactly: if you look the code in the "accepted answer" it will not work because "zowe zmf get cbp" does not exist.

I think the sample should be updated with "zowe zmf browse pcomp" 

I know perfectly how this logic should work on mainframe using XML API and I'm struggling when searching for samples in REST API.

So when I find something that doesn't work I just want to contribute....

I fixed the screen shot above