prompting inconsistencies

[dkelosky]

There are a few differences in the ways users are prompted in Zowe CLI. Should they be the same?

Example 1:

C:\dev>zowe jobs list jobs
Enter user name: ibmuser
Enter password : *******

Example 2:

C:\dev>zowe config secure
Please enter profiles.my_base.properties.user: *****
Please enter profiles.my_base.properties.password: *****

Example 3:

C:\dev>zowex config init
user (User name to authenticate to service on the mainframe.) - blank to skip: *****
password (Password to authenticate to service on the mainframe.) - blank to skip: *****
Saved config template to C:\dev\zowe.config.json

Differences:

• Example 2 prefixes with please
• Example 1 aligns colons
• Example 1 shows user in plain text
• Examples 2 and Example 3 are prompting for input to the same location in config, but Example 2 lists the property path while Example 1 does not.

[zFernand0]

zowe/zowe-cli#1939 might be related to this 😋

[t1m0thyj]

Received some feedback from @davidkjackson54 related to this:

One small observation re zowe config secure command… It isn’t obvious that you can simply ‘click through’ these to leave any existing value as-is.

Nor is this mentioned in the help. I think it might be useful to make that more clear that you can just press to skip?