Deprecate VSAM storage option in v3

[achmelo]

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[muzikovam]

Just small changes

[Martin-Zeithaml]

And what about zwe init vsam command + VSAM samples + schema?

[achmelo]

And what about zwe init vsam command + VSAM samples + schema?

It will remain available in v3 so we don't need to change anything in samples and schema. It may be a good idea to print some message in the zwe init vsam but I am not sure where would be the best place. Do you have a suggestion?

[Martin-Zeithaml]

And what about zwe init vsam command + VSAM samples + schema?

It will remain available in v3 so we don't need to change anything in samples and schema. It may be a good idea to print some message in the zwe init vsam but I am not sure where would be the best place. Do you have a suggestion?

Ok, make sense, the zwe init vsam is already skipped if not VSAM. The command could stay the same. Maybe we can state some suggestion in help: VSAM is deprecated, consider using infinispan because...

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There's an error during zowe startup in the integration test:

 ZWESVUSR WARN ZWEL0066W command 'ZWE_zowe_runtimeDirectory="/redacted" ZWE_CLI_PARAMETER_HA_INSTANCE="redacted_ha" ZWED_SSH_PORT="00" ZWED_TN3270_PORT="00" _CEE_RUNOPTS="HEAPPOOLS(OFF),HEAPPOOLS64(OFF)" _EDC_UMASK_DFLT="0002" CONFIG="/redacted.yaml" _BPXK_AUTOCVT="ON" ROOT_DIR="/redact" ZWE_CLI_PARAMETER_CONFIG="/redacted.yaml" /redacted/bin/utils/configmgr -script /redacted/bin/commands/internal/start/prepare/cli.js 2>&1' ended with code 256

<ZWELNCH:16842890> ZWESVUSR ERROR ZWEL0030E failed to prepare Zowe instance

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