Zowe Explorer 2.15.0 - Connection to different LPARs with different credentials

Products

• Brightside

Issue/Introduction

Can multiple profiles be used to connect to Zowe Explorer simultaneously?

 

Environment

All Environment

Cause

The user and password stored in the base profile will be used by default for every profile that connects to each LPAR.

Issues arise if a different user and password is used on some LPARS. 

 

Resolution

To resolve this 

1.  Place the user and password properties in the secure arrays on each of the other profiles. 

"secure": [
        "user",
        "password"
    ]

2. Use the Zowe CLI to issue  'zowe config secure'  - A prompt will now appear for each new user and password combination. 

Additional Information

When entering a different user and password for different profiles, different credentials will be used to connect to the respective LPAR.

Please note that the approach will not work if attempting to use APIML in the future.