Zowe CLI Identity Federation Plug-in

The IDF Plug-in for Zowe CLI lets you extend Zowe CLI to make it easier to map mainframe users with an identity provided by an external identity provider.
The Plug-in is designed to work with the ESMs: IBM RACF, Broadcom ACF/2, and Broadcom Top Secret.

How the Plug-in works

The IDF Plug-in for Zowe CLI can help facilitate the mapping of an external identity from a distributed identity provider to mainframe users administered by the system ESM.

Prerequisites

Before you work with the Zowe CLI sample plug-in, install Zowe CLI globally.

Run the Automated Tests

1. cd __tests__/__resources__/properties
2. Edit the properties within custom_properties.yaml to contain valid system information for your site.
3. cd to zowe-cli-id-federation-plugin folder
4. npm run test

Install the zowe-cli-id-federation-plugin to Zowe CLI

This process assumes that you already installed Zowe CLI on your PC in the previous steps.

1. cd to zowe-cli-id-federation-plugin folder.
2. npm run installPlugin
3. zowe idf --help
You should see help text displayed if the installation was successful.