v8.1.0

Zowe CLI

• Enhancement: Added --stateful flag to zos-tso issue cmd to allow declaring the statefulness of the address space being created. #2240
• Enhancement: --suppress-startup-messages flag default value changed to true. #2240

Imperative

• Enhancement: Added the ability to specify a profile with the zowe config secure command. This allows the user to prompt for the secure values of the specified profile. [#1890] #1890

z/OS Jobs SDK

• BugFix: Fixed error in DownloadJobs.downloadSpoolContentCommon method causing binary spool files to be corrupted by newline normalization. #2282

z/OS TSO SDK

• Enhancement: Deprecated IssueTsoCommand() function and replaced with IssueTsoCmd() for compatibility with z/OS version 2.4. #2240
• Enhancement: Modified IIssueReponse to handle z/OS 2.4 and newer TSO command response. #2240
  • Old API behavior will be utilized upon specifying --ssm to be false, otherwise try new API and if it fails, fallback to old API.
  • Specifying --ssm to be false makes the value of --stateful have no impact on behavior since old API behavior does not utilize statefulness.

z/OSMF SDK

• Enhancement: Created isZosVersionAtLeast() function to allow for dynamic behavior based on z/OS version. #2240