Adding compatibility with VSCode portable mode

[Peariforme]

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In our company we are packaging a vscode with several mainframe extension for our Z/OS developpers. In order to not interfer with a potential already installed vscode on the developpers post we use the vscode portable mode (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/portable). It enables us to have severall version of our package on one post and have no interference for the settings and installed extensions between each vscode installation.

The problem is that zowe explorer is not compatible with the portable mode. All settings file are stored under %USER%/.zowe and so are common to all our installation.

In my understanding with the portable mode they should be under %vscodeinstallationfolder%/data/user-data/User/globalStorage/.zowe

Describe the solution you'd like

When using vscode in portable mode the .zowe folder should be in %vscodeinstallfolder%/data

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[t1m0thyj]

Zowe Explorer uses %USER%/.zowe as the default location for settings because it is shared by multiple Zowe apps (for example, Zowe CLI and Zowe Explorer for IntelliJ look there as well).

If you want settings be stored elsewhere, you can control the location where ZE stores settings with the ZOWE_CLI_HOME environment variable (see Zowe docs).