[Connection management] Connection management API

[FALLAI-Denis]

Description of the feature or enhancement

Hi,

Managing connection declarations is a pain in our context: between 500 and 700 developers and as many installations of the IBM Db2 for z/OS Developer extension to manage.

The problem stems from the fact that while users can add information to the connection declaration, these declarations can also change over time (for example, switching from an insecure connection to an SSL connection).

Redeploying the connections file as described in the reference documentation is not an acceptable solution for us.
Sharing connection definitions
--> This solution overrides the personalization provided by users.

The file's content format is not explicitly documented, although its organization can be understood.
Our experience has also shown us that attempting to manually modify this file is a significant risk (for example, it appears that formatting the file to improve readability, by adding line breaks in Windows' CR/LF format, renders the file unusable).

We would like to have an API to manage these declarations, (it is up to us to create the script or the proprietary VS Code extension to do this).

Thanks.

[rishi-ibm]

Hi @FALLAI-Denis,
We are introducing the ability to export Db2 connections through the UI in our upcoming release.

Thanks.