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Zowe Explorer should be programming language agnostic #3131

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phaumer opened this issue Sep 19, 2024 · 3 comments
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Zowe Explorer should be programming language agnostic #3131

phaumer opened this issue Sep 19, 2024 · 3 comments
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enhancement New feature or request priority-low Legit issue but cosmetic or nice-to-have Research Needed

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phaumer commented Sep 19, 2024

Describe the bug

Zowe Explorer provides access to z/OS resources such as MVS data sets and PDS members. You can click on a member to open it in the default VS Code text editor. With its excellent SDK it provides a fantastic platform for extenders to layer their capabilities on top of Zowe Explorer. Zowe Explorer's scope imho is not to provide language specific capabilities such as syntax highlighting or code completion. It therefore needs to be designed language agnostic and not make any assumption about the content of an MVS, USS, or spool file. This would be the responsibility of Zowe Explorer extender extensions to interpret content and decide special behavior such as assuming a program language. Zowe Explorer right now looks at data set names and appends file extensions based on hard coded rules not allowing extenders to control for themselves how a file should be treated.

To Reproduce

  1. Create a PDS with COBOL in the name such as IBMUSER.SAMPLE.COBOL
  2. Add a JCL file to the data set
  3. Open the file: it has a .cbl file extension preventing a JCL language server VS Code extension to appropriately interpret its contents.

Expected behavior

Zowe Explorer should not make any assumptions about the files it opens; other than encodings in UNIX file tags etc.

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  • OS: all
  • Zowe Explorer Version: v1 to 3
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  • (Optional) Are you using Secure Credential Store?

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@JTonda JTonda added enhancement New feature or request Research Needed and removed bug Something isn't working labels Sep 24, 2024
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JTonda commented Sep 24, 2024

Research Needed: Investigate backwards compatible implementation with possible toggle/switch setting.

Note: If we change the behavior of removing the extensions, that will shift some of the responsibility to the LSPs for detecting the language in open editor.

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