Error starting z/OS Connect Designer on s390x with Docker

An error might occur when starting z/OS Connect Designer on s390x.

About this task

When starting z/OS Connect Designer on s390x with root user, z/OS Connect Designer uses UID as 1001.

While mounting the directory, Docker checks the UID 1001 in the host system and the following error is returned: [ERROR ] java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /workspace/project/.gitignore.

There are two workarounds to this issue.

Use either Step 1 or Step 2 from this procedure to resolve the problem.

Procedure

  1. Add the user root -u root option to start the z/OS Connect Designer. 
    docker run -it -p 9080:9080 -u root -d -v $PWD:/workspace/project/ icr.io/zosconnect/ibm-zcon-designer:3.0.69
  2. Create a new user in the host system with UID 1001 and use the new user to start z/OS Connect Designer.