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zowe / zowe-explorer-vscode

Visual Studio Code Extension for Zowe, which lets users interact with z/OS Data Sets, Unix System Services, and Jobs on a remote mainframe instance. Powered by Zowe SDKs.
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Support globs/wildcard patterns in resource URIs #2939

Open traeok opened 5 months ago

traeok commented 5 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, resource URIs are considered static paths to resources added to the provider. A suggestion was made to enhance our handling of these URIs to support wildcard/globs, mainly so that virtual workspaces can define patterns without having to define a URI for each entry they want in their workspace.

Describe the solution you'd like

Support wildcard patterns in resource URIs (data sets, USS, maybe jobs)

Describe alternatives you've considered

You can add an entry in your .code-workspace file for each entry you want, but this can be tedious especially if you want several entries from a matching pattern.

github-actions[bot] commented 5 months ago

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zFernand0 commented 5 months ago

I'm still new to virtual workspaces (through the GitHub Repositories VSCE), however, modifying the .code-workspace manually doesn't sound very fun. 😅 I think people might prefer opening folders and saving the workspace via VSCode itself 😋

t1m0thyj commented 5 months ago

Need to investigate if REST APIs can handle wildcards and if this can be done without breaking changes. Could potentially be implemented as a new search API since URIs may not be well-suited to handle wildcards.