Vscode-extension-for-zowe: Uploading local files

[phaumer]

Currently the MVS and USS views allow creating new files and editing them, but if the user has created files locally and wants to upload them either data set members or uss files I do not see a way of doing that.

Drag and drop could be one solution, but is a challenge as the Zowe activity group is now separated from the Explorer one. We could do drag and drop with editor tabs, but that is a bit awkward. Another solution could be an Upload Dialog that prompts for files and targets.

[lauren-li]

@adambattenburg and I have begun working on this item. We are starting with upload to the MVS.

[markcocker]

Note that zowe zos-files upload dir-to-uss provides the --attributes option that controls file transfer encoding, exclusion, and tagging.

A .zosattributes file can either be placed in the top-level directory you want
to upload, or its location can be specified by using the --attributes parameter.
.zosattributes files that are placed in nested directories are ignored.

It would be nice if this issue could use the .zosattributes file if it is in the root of the source file or directory to transfer.

[kristinochka]

I'm currently working on this issue.

[zFernand0]

If possible, could you assign yourself to the issue too?
I believe we can have more than one person assigned to an issue :)

[kristinochka]

@zFernand0 I don't have permission to change anything on issues in this repo.

[zFernand0]

@zFernand0 I don't have permission to change anything on issues in this repo.

@kristinochka, Thanks for letting me know. I believe we need to add your team to have write access to the VSCode repo.
Can you check if you are part of any Teams on the Zowe organization?
If you don't belong to any team, we may want to create a team for the VSCode Ext 😄

[kristinochka]

@zFernand0 I'm not a member of any teams.

[zFernand0]

@zFernand0 I'm not a member of any teams.

we will create a VSCE team. I just need confirmation :)
Sorry for any inconveniences.

[zFernand0]

@kristinochka,
A VSCode Team has been created.
Feel free to request-to-join or accept the invite if you already got it.

Apologies for hijacking the issue/thread

[zFernand0]

Currently the MVS and USS views allow creating new files and editing them, but if the user has created files locally and wants to upload them either data set members or uss files I do not see a way of doing that.

Drag and drop could be one solution, but is a challenge as the Zowe activity group is now separated from the Explorer one. We could do drag and drop with editor tabs, but that is a bit awkward. Another solution could be an Upload Dialog that prompts for files and targets.

Back to the topic though, I do agree with the use-case here.
Out of curiosity though, what is the Zowe Activity Group?

[kristinochka]

I believe Peter meant that File Explorer and Zowe Plugin view show up in 2 separate views (you can only see one or the other) so you can't easily drag-n-drop.

[kristinochka]

Also, the VSCode Team link takes me to 404 Not Found page and I have not received any invites.

[zFernand0]

Also, the VSCode Team link takes me to 404 Not Found page and I have not received any invites.

Hey @kristinochka,
Could you try https://github.com/zowe, and click on the Teams tab to go to https://github.com/orgs/zowe/teams
From there, you should be able to search for VSCode

Then Click on the team and go to Members in order to Request to Join
https://github.com/orgs/zowe/teams/vscode-team/members