What have we planned for 4th quarter 2023

2 min readOct 27, 2023

The Zowe community finished another round of planning and, as such, we can share with you, our stakeholders, the results of what we plan in the upcoming months.

The first planning for the year 2024 is going to happen between January 25th and January 27th. If you want to give us any feedback around our plans join us on Zoom, the information about the meeting will be shared on Slack, Social media and via zowe-user mailing list.

Highlights

The VS Code Explorer extension reached over 100k installs in the last quarter. Zowe reached 57 (+2) V2 conformant extensions .

What are the key areas and who is working on them?

The list of the areas below doesn’t try to cover all the work that is planned for the next quarter and instead focus on the larger scale topics that are worked on by multiple squads.

Installation and Configuration

Server-side installation and configuration documentation improvements (Docs)
Document tips on server side verification (Docs)
Improving zwe tool (Systems)
ZEN — UI to simplify Zowe Configuration and Installation (Web UI)
Rehaul the JCL scripts used within the installation (Web UI)
Education with Interskill (Onboarding)

Security

Open SSF Best Practices Audit (TSC)
Open SSF Best Practices (CLI)
Support API ML Authentication in Intellij (Intellij Plugin)

Version 3

Java 17 & Spring Boot 3 (API Mediation Layer)
Spring Cloud Gateway (API Mediation Layer)
Prepare the V3 Documentation Pages (Docs)
Zowe CLI Pre-release (CLI)
Zowe Explorer Pre-release (Explorers)

Technical Improvements

System tests enhancements (CLI)
Client SDK Conformance (CLI)
Angular/Webpack Upgrades (Web UI)
Code Coverage Improvements (Intellij Plugin)
VS Code Error Logging Improvements (Explorers)

Where do I find more details?

Every squad prepared and shared the more detailed plans in the Community repository. Every plan contains the information about current quarter as well as plans for longer time frame under roadmap sections. The links are here: