Restart Zowe component with a different configuration

[JirkaAichler]

Hello,
I am running Zowe and would like to restart Gateway with a different configuration.

Steps:

1. Modify zowe.yaml
2. Call /F ZOWE,APPL=STOP(gateway)
3. Call /F ZOWE,APPL=START(gateway)

Gateway is restarted but still using the old configuration. It seems that Gateway configuration files were not refreshed.
For example: instance/workspace/.env/.instance-sys1.env

What should I do?

[balhar-jakub]

@skurnevich Do you have any idea what could be the issue?

[skurnevich]

Hello,
I've never experimented with restarting the Gateway only with updated config.
So it is HA Instance, and what Zowe version is that exactly?
Does restart of entire Zowe helps and config is being properly updated? Or you could not try that in your case?

[JirkaAichler]

Zowe v2.2.0 without HA.

Restarting the whole Zowe helps but I would like to restart just one component to significantly lower downtime (avoid the long Zowe restart).

[1000TurquoisePogs]

you're not doing anything wrong, zowe just doesn't have this feature yet. it's a very good idea to develop in the future.
i think it has to do with the launcher only redoing the start.sh event when a component stops.
start.sh consumes environment variables given in configure.sh, which does not rerun.

[1000TurquoisePogs]

kind of related zowe/zowe-install-packaging#2871