Cryptic error message issued during zwe start processing

[outtheresomewhere]

Trying to initialize Zowe server on z/OS V2R5 with the USS command zwe start --config /global/zowe/zowe.yaml, and the following error messages are issued:

**2024-04-20 19:02:24 ZWESVUSR ERROR ZWEL0070E Configuration has validity exceptions: Validity Exceptions(s) with object at
Validity Exceptions(s) with object at /zowe
Validity Exceptions(s) with object at /zowe/setup
Validity Exceptions(s) with object at /zowe/setup/dataset
unspecified additional property not allowed: 'security' at '/zowe/setup/dataset/security'
unspecified additional property not allowed: 'product' at '/zowe/setup/dataset/product'
unspecified additional property not allowed: 'groups' at '/zowe/setup/dataset/groups'
unspecified additional property not allowed: 'users' at '/zowe/setup/dataset/users'
unspecified additional property not allowed: 'stcs' at '/zowe/setup/dataset/stcs'
type 'string' not permitted at /zowe/environments; expecting type 'object'**

Our yaml file DOES pass the syntax checks done by yamlchecker.com

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Steps to Reproduce

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1. Install Zowe with SMP/E
2. Try to start Zowe via USS command zwe start --config /global/zowe/zowe.yaml

Expected behavior

I was EXPECTING to see error messages that were clear, concise, and pointed to precisely what caused the error AND how to fix it.

Details Zowe 2.0, executing on a zPDT under z/OS V2R5.

[balhar-jakub]

I don't have the .yaml file you are using, but based on the message it seems that some of the sections is incorrectly indented compared to the other sections.

Specifically:

zowe:
    setup:
        dataset:
        security:

needs to be indented on the same level as dataset instead of being part of it e.g.

zowe:
    setup:
        dataset:
            security:

[outtheresomewhere]

Thank you. Indentation errors in zowe.yaml were the root cause of the errors I was seeing.

I hate yaml files; I wish zowe used some other type of file to establish its startup config. It is NOT user friendly...