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    Support parallel builds of sources with the same fileBuildRank

    The language task sequentially builds al the sources by iterating over the files in SOURCE_LIST. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/adffz/dbb/3.0.x?topic=index-task-language Actions Creates a language build list from the SOURCE_LIST by using the sources:...
    9 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Submitted

    Introduce new extension, .spcbl, and potentially a new boolean variable. ${IS_SP}, to be used in DBB and other DevOps products for Cobol Stored Procedures.

    Currently there is no easy way to determine if a Cobol program is a Cobol Batch program or a Cobol Stored Procedure. Since they have different compiler options, it is important to be able to indicate to DBB and other DevOps tools which one - Cobol...
    3 months ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

    DBB has IS_CICS and IS_SQL , but it is missing is_SP , or maybe we can add a IS_CUST to use for custom processing ?

    DB2 STORE PROCEDURES can require different compiler options to DB2 programs ( IS_SQL). At the moment there is no way to differentiate between DB2 programs and DB2 store procedures . I wonder if we can even add a IS_CUST so that it can be used for ...
    3 months ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

    Improve DBB zBuilder error message if .gitconfig is not UTF-8

    DBB zBuilder can fail with the following error if .gitconfig contains characters that are not UTF-8: org.eclipse.jgit.errors.ConfigInvalidException: Cannot read file /u/user1/.gitconfig at org.eclipse.jgit.storage.file.FileBasedConfig.load(FileBas...
    5 months ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Not under consideration

    DBB Build Report Information

    Hi In the DBB build report, we have 'ToolKit' version and date. Ideally that information is not relevant for a developer, instead we need the Date/Time of actual compilation. Also under dependency, CPY showing with correct path if the CPY found th...
    7 months ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Functionality already exists

    Capture File Modification Metadata on PDS Members when Performing DBB Builds

    Currently, file metadata such as the created/modified date and time stamps are not being captured on PDS members when performing a DBB Build. The file modification history is blank after new or changed files have been delivered to z/OS. We would l...
    10 months ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

    We need the correct SYSLIB concatenation details in DBB UserBuild “Build Report” (IDZ).

    We need the correct SYSLIB concatenation details in DBB UserBuild “Build Report” (IDZ). Now its showing nothing and developer need to open the .log file need to check and its very time consuming. Since IDZ knows that COPYBOOK is picking from the r...
    about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

    Package DBB as a z/OS Container image

    After the introduction of the z/OS Container Platform we want to leverage that and package our build framework (based on DBB) into a container. This allows us to more easily decide what version of DBB we work with and can more easily add features ...
    about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Not under consideration

    Build Map to include Source PDS apart from GIT Path

    As a part of COBOL Build the PDS from where a COPYBOOK/DCLGEN dependency is resolved can be extracted and stored in Build Map along with ISPF stats attached to the member. This will help in detecting changes made to the dependency when the COBOL e...
    over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Functionality already exists

    Enhancements for validating DBB toolkit setup/configuration

    Please consult the thread at https://github.com/IBM/dbb-zappbuild/discussions/466 I am often asked to validate things with regards to DBB/zAppBuild. Many of these tasks I manually do, though I have a few scripts of my own that do some of it. I rea...
    almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Future consideration

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