Installing Zowe CLI

For a better understanding of Zowe CLI, review the various reference materials that document the application.

Get to know what's new in the Zowe ecosystem, review the quick start guide, and find ways to get the most out of Zowe CLI.

About Zowe CLI

• Check out Zowe release notes to learn about the latest Zowe CLI updates.

• Watch Office Hours videos that outline major features in Zowe CLI V2 and Zowe CLI V3.

• New to Zowe? Pick up terms and basic concepts with the Zowe Glossary.

Zowe CLI quick start

Ready to start using Zowe CLI right now? Speed up the installation process with the Zowe CLI quick start to get Zowe CLI up and running in your environment sooner.

Getting the most from Zowe CLI

The following blog posts on the publishing platform Medium go over use cases and provide recommendations on best practices, providing tips on how to best use Zowe CLI to meet your needs.

• Zowe CLI: Getting started with Team Config.

• Password management for Zowe CLI profiles

• Enterprise rollout of Zowe CLI

• Zowe CLI Tips & Tricks

• Zowe CLI and TSO commands

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Check out Medium for more informative blogs on Zowe CLI.

Contributing to Zowe CLI

• Review the Contributing guidelines for a summary of conventions and best practices for development of Zowe CLI.

Zowe CLI community resources

The Zowe ecosystem is more than a collection of applications and extensions. An entire community exists to work on enhancements, help answer questions, and discuss plans for the future of the open source project.

• Join the #zowe-cli Slack channel to ask questions about Zowe CLI, propose new ideas, and interact with the Zowe community.

• You can join Zowe CLI squad meetings to get involved. The meeting schedule is posted in the Zowe calendar.

• Discuss Zowe topics in the Open Mainframe Project Community Forums.

• If you have an issue that is specific to Zowe CLI, you can submit an issue in the zowe-cli repository on GitHub.

Zowe Conformance Program

Administered by the Open Mainframe Project, the Zowe Conformance Program aims to give users the confidence that when they use a product, app, or distribution that leverages Zowe, they can expect a high level of common functionality, interoperability, and user experience.

Read the blog post Zowe Conformance Program Explained for more details about the Conformance Program, including useful references.