Uninstalling Zowe CLI

You can uninstall Zowe™ CLI from the desktop if you no longer need to use it.

Important! The uninstall process does not delete the profiles and credentials that you created when using the product from your computer. To delete the profiles from your computer, delete them before you uninstall Zowe CLI.

The following steps describe how to list the profiles that you created, delete the profiles, and uninstall Zowe CLI.

Follow these steps:

1. Open a command-line window.

   Note: If you do not want to delete the Zowe CLI profiles from your computer, go to Step 5.

2. List all profiles that you created for a given command group. Issue the following command:

    zowe profiles list <profileType>

   Example:

   $ zowe profiles list zosmf
   The following profiles were found for the module zosmf:
   'SMITH-123' (DEFAULT)
   smith-123@SMITH-123-W7 C:\Users\SMITH-123
   $

3. Delete all of the profiles that are listed for the command group by issuing the following command:

   Tip: For this command, use the results of the list command.

   Note: When you issue the delete command, it deletes the specified profile and its credentials from the credential vault in your computer's operating system.

   zowe profiles delete <profileType> <profileName> --force

   Example:

   zowe profiles delete zosmf SMITH-123 --force

4. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 for all Zowe CLI command groups and profiles.

5. Uninstall Zowe CLI by issuing the following command:

   npm uninstall --global @zowe/cli

   Note: You might receive an ENOENT error when issuing this command if you installed Zowe CLI from a local package (.tgz) and the package was moved from its original location. In the event that you receive the error, open an issue in the Zowe CLI GitHub repository.

   The uninstall process removes all Zowe CLI installation directories and files from your computer.

6. Delete the ~/.zowe or %homepath%\.zowe directory on your computer. The directory contains the Zowe CLI log files and other miscellaneous files that were generated when you used the product.

   Tip: Deleting the directory does not harm your computer.