Zowe: Colin’s zowe cli help options

The zowe cli help option does not easily tell you how to get all of the help. In order to get the syntax of the command – you have to know the full command with the and then add the –help option!

ZOSMF CONNECTION OPTIONS

• -host | -H (string) The z/OSMF server host name.
• –port | -P (number) The z/OSMF server port. Default value: 443
• –user | -u (string) Mainframe (z/OSMF) user name, which can be the same as your TSO login. Your TSO logon userid
• –password | –pass | –pw (string) Mainframe (z/OSMF) password, which can be the same as your TSO password. Your TSO userid’s password
• –reject-unauthorized | –ru (boolean) Reject self-signed certificates. Default value: true
• –base-path | –bp (string) The base path for your API mediation layer instance. Specify this option to prepend the base path to all z/OSMF resources when making REST requests. Do not specify this option if you are not using an API mediation layer.
• –protocol (string)
• –cert-file (local file path) The file path to a certificate file to use for authentication
• –cert-key-file (local file path) The file path to a certificate key file to use for authentication
• –completion-timeout | –cto (number) The amount in time, in seconds, a REST operation should wait to complete before timing out
• –establish-connection-timeout | –ecto (number) The amount of time, in seconds, a REST operation should wait while connecting to the server before timing out.
• PROFILE OPTIONS

PROFILE OPTIONS

• –zosmf-profile | –zosmf-p (string) The name of a (zosmf) profile to load for this command execution.
• –base-profile | –base-p (string) The name of a (base) profile to load for this command execution.

BASE CONNECTION OPTIONS

• –token-type | –tt (string) The type of token to get and use for the API. Omit this option to use the default token type, which is provided by ‘zowe auth login’.
• –token-value | –tv (string) The value of the token to pass to the API.