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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories z/OSMF
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 6, 2025

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Allow REST API to provide absolute or relative path in REST API zosmf/restfiles/fs/{filepath-name} and/or Provide appropriate messages.

See Case TS016672435 for more details.

(For me this looks like a bug, but as you see in the case, Support thinks it is working as designed, so Could we please get this fixed). A larger issue is not to get 500 return codes for REST API usage problem, but to get appropriate errors.  

If I specify the absolute file of a file name that exists, I get a 500 return code. The problem is that that the API is adding a forward slash to my absolute path when I already have one: 
I specify /usr/lpp/bcp/upgrade/HC_REXX.txt in the PATH field, but when I press the TRY IT OUT button, I get a response body which shows a slash has been added, and a return code of 500 which indicates an internal server error (Should be 40X if the file was not found).

 

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 7, 2025
    In your example file name was specified incorrectly. Actual file name is
    /usr/lpp/bcp/upgrade/HC_rexx.txt

    I see appropriate result from Swagger.


    https://pev002.pok.ibm.com:443/zosmf/restfiles/fs?path=%2Fusr%2Flpp%2Fbcp%2Fupgrade%2FHC_rexx.txt

    {
    "items": [
    {
    "name": "/usr/lpp/bcp/upgrade/HC_rexx.txt",
    "mode": "-rw-r--r--",
    "size": 23217,
    "uid": 0,
    "user": "OMVSKERN",
    "gid": 1,
    "group": "OMVSGRP",
    "mtime": "2024-12-06T17:47:24"
    }
    ],
    "totalRows": 1,
    "returnedRows": 1,
    "JSONversion": 1
    }

    With APAR PH63572, z/OSMF file/dataset APIs are enhanced to return 404 response code instead of 500 when there is an issue with request.

    Following is the error when you have incorrect file name.

    https://pev002.pok.ibm.com:443/zosmf/restfiles/fs?path=%2Fusr%2Flpp%2Fbcp%2Fupgrade%2FHC_REXX.txt

    Response Code : 404

    {
    "category": 1,
    "rc": 4,
    "reason": 8,
    "message": "Path name not found",
    "details": [
    "EDC5129I No such file or directory. (errno2=0x053B006C)"
    ]
    }

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