diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2d7ede9fa..93bdf830a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Zowe Common C Changelog
 
 ## `3.1.0`
+- Enhancement: `configmgr extract` option supports simple array (#502)
 - Bugfix: removed "ByteOutputStream" debug message, which was part of the `zwe` command output (#491)
 - Bugfix: HEAPPOOLS and HEAPPOOLS64 no longer need to be set to OFF for configmgr (#497)
 - Enhancement: module registry (#405)
diff --git a/c/configmgr.c b/c/configmgr.c
index 91f2a87ca..3e72d6468 100644
--- a/c/configmgr.c
+++ b/c/configmgr.c
@@ -1161,29 +1161,57 @@ int cfgGetBooleanC(ConfigManager *mgr, const char *configName, bool *result, int
   }
 }
 
-static void extractText(ConfigManager *mgr, const char *configName, JsonPointer *jp, FILE *out){
+static int printPrimitiveDataType(Json *value, FILE *out) {
+  if (jsonIsString(value)){
+    fprintf(out,"%s",jsonAsString(value));
+  } else if (jsonIsInt64(value)){
+    fprintf(out,"%lld",INT64_LL(jsonAsInt64(value)));
+  } else if (jsonIsDouble(value)){
+    fprintf(out,"%f",jsonAsDouble(value));
+  } else if (jsonIsBoolean(value)){
+    fprintf(out,"%s",jsonAsBoolean(value) ? "true" : "false");
+  } else if (jsonIsNull(value)){
+    fprintf(out,"null");
+  } else {
+    fprintf(out,"error: unhandled type");
+    return ZCFG_EXTRACT_ERROR;
+  }
+  return ZCFG_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+static int extractText(ConfigManager *mgr, const char *configName, JsonPointer *jp, FILE *out){
   Json *value = NULL;
   int status = cfgGetAnyJ(mgr,configName,&value,jp);
+  int ret = 0;
   if (status){
     fprintf(out,"error not found, reason=%d",status);
-  } else {
-    if (jsonIsObject(value) ||
-        jsonIsArray(value)){
-      fprintf(out,"error: cannot access whole objects or arrays");
-    } else if (jsonIsString(value)){
-      fprintf(out,"%s",jsonAsString(value));
-    } else if (jsonIsInt64(value)){
-      fprintf(out,"%lld",INT64_LL(jsonAsInt64(value)));
-    } else if (jsonIsDouble(value)){
-      fprintf(out,"%f",jsonAsDouble(value));
-    } else if (jsonIsBoolean(value)){
-      fprintf(out,"%s",jsonAsBoolean(value) ? "true" : "false");
-    } else if (jsonIsNull(value)){
-      fprintf(out,"null");
-    } else {
-      fprintf(out,"error: unhandled type");
+    return ZCFG_EXTRACT_ERROR;
+  }
+
+  if (jsonIsObject(value)) {
+    fprintf(out,"error: cannot access whole objects");
+    return ZCFG_EXTRACT_ERROR;
+  }
+
+  if (jsonIsArray(value)) {
+    JsonArray *array = jsonAsArray(value);
+    for (int i = 0; i < jsonArrayGetCount(array); i++) {
+      Json *arrayItem = jsonArrayGetItem(array, i);
+      if (jsonIsObject(arrayItem) || jsonIsArray(arrayItem)) {
+        fprintf(out,"error: cannot access objects or arrays in arrays");
+        return ZCFG_EXTRACT_ERROR;
+      } else {
+        ret = printPrimitiveDataType(arrayItem, out);
+        fprintf(out, "\n");
+        if (ret) {
+          return ret;
+        }
+      }
     }
+  } else {
+    ret = printPrimitiveDataType(value, out);
   }
+  return ret;
 }
 
 #define MAX_PATH_NAME 1024
@@ -1831,9 +1859,10 @@ static int simpleMain(int argc, char **argv){
         printJsonPointer(mgr->traceOut,jp);
         fflush(mgr->traceOut);
       }
-      extractText(mgr,configName,jp,stdout);
+      int extractResult = extractText(mgr,configName,jp,stdout);
       printf("\n");
       fflush(stdout);
+      return extractResult;
     }
   } else if (!strcmp(command, "env")) {
     if (argx >= argc){
diff --git a/h/configmgr.h b/h/configmgr.h
index 303c4ffaa..3cadd107e 100644
--- a/h/configmgr.h
+++ b/h/configmgr.h
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ typedef struct ConfigManager_tag{
 #define ZCFG_IO_ERROR 13
 #define ZCFG_VALIDATION_INTERNAL_ERROR 14
 #define ZCFG_JQ_PARSE_ERROR 15
+#define ZCFG_EXTRACT_ERROR 16
 /* Normal way to tell people the program succeded but their config is bad */
 #define ZCFG_CONFIG_FAILED_VALIDATION 99
 
diff --git a/tests/configmgr/extract/extract.json b/tests/configmgr/extract/extract.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b0c9c7e6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/configmgr/extract/extract.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+    "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2019-09",
+    "$id": "https://zowe.org/schema/base",
+    "type": "object",
+    "properties": {
+        "test": {
+            "type": "object",
+            "additionalProperties": false
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/configmgr/extract/extract.yaml b/tests/configmgr/extract/extract.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..67ba95299
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/configmgr/extract/extract.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+test:
+  number1: 0
+  number2: "${{ 9 * 13 }}"
+  number3: 123456789
+  boolean1: false
+  boolean2: "${{ 1 === 1 }}"
+  null1: ~
+  null2: null
+  null3:
+  string1: 'Hello, World!'
+  string2: "${{ 'a'.repeat(16) }}"
+  array1:
+    - 'apple'
+    - 'banana'
+    - 'kiwi'
+  array2: [ 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5 ]
+  array3:
+    - 'string'
+    - 0
+    - true
+    - "${{ 1 + 1 }}"
+    - "${{ [ 1, 2, 3 ].toString() }}"
+    - ~
+  array4: []
+  array5: [ ~, ~, ~ ]
+  error_expected1:
+    - 'First item'
+    - [ 0, 1 ]
+    - [ 0, 1, 2 ]
+  error_expected2:
+    NESTED:
+      OBJECTS:
+        SUPPORTED: false
diff --git a/tests/configmgr/extract/index.sh b/tests/configmgr/extract/index.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..7adff893f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/configmgr/extract/index.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+#######################################################################
+# This program and the accompanying materials are made available
+# under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v2.0 which
+# accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+# https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v20.html
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+#
+# Copyright Contributors to the Zowe Project.
+#######################################################################
+
+if [ `uname` != "OS/390" ]; then
+    echo "Error: this test must run on a z/OS system."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ "${1}" = "--help" ]; then
+    echo "Test the configmgr with 'extract' option"
+    echo "  no parm: tries to run configmgr from current 'zowe-common-c/bin'"
+    echo "  path: path to configmgr"
+    echo "  --help: this help"
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+configmgr_path="${1}"
+if [ -z "${configmgr_path}" ]; then
+    configmgr_path="../../../bin/configmgr"
+fi
+
+if [ ! -f "${configmgr_path}" ]; then
+    echo "Error: configmgr not found in '${configmgr_path}'"
+    exit 4
+fi
+
+schema="./extract.json"
+yaml="./extract.yaml"
+fileYaml="FILE(${yaml})"
+
+# To simplify this test, any property starting with lowercase will be tested, the rest is ignored
+test_set=$(cat "${yaml}" | grep -E '^[\ ]+[a-z]+' | awk -F: '{ print $1 }');
+
+for item in $test_set; do
+
+    result=$(_CEE_RUNOPTS="XPLINK(ON)" "${configmgr_path}" -s "${schema}" -p "${fileYaml}" extract "/test/${item}");
+    echo "rc=${?}: Item ${item} -> $result"
+
+done