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    Fix HLASM line continuation detection issue in MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB

    The HLASM parser fails to correctly capture the line continuation when using IBM Z Open Editor to view the epsmort.bms file (lines 24-27) of the MortgageApplication sample shipped with DBB, and marks it as a code warning. See lines 24-28 of the at...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 0 Under review

    Need a way to prevent IDz from copying zAppBuild/Groovy user build configuration

    It has been observed that during the copying of a program from one project/Git repository to another in IDz, the associated zAppBuild/Groovy user build configuration is also transferred (HLQ, Build groovy script, application,...). The customer sug...
    3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

    Launch “User Build” for more than one cobol program at a time.

    It would be very useful to be able to run the “DBB” for more than one program at a time. That is, select two or more cobol programs, right click and launch a dependency based build for these two selected programs. I understand the problem with the...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build / Editors / VSCODE 1 Future consideration

    Automatic removal of USS user content uploaded by Dependency Base Build from IDz build process to avoid impact in further builds

    We are starting to receive complaints from developers using IDz Dependency Base Build due to unexpected behaviors in their build processes. Those compains are related with the build process using different copybooks than the ones the developer con...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 2 Planned for future release

    Allow user builds to run inside a container

    With the introduction of native container images for z/OS (z/OS Container Platform) it only makes sense to package Java, DBB and the build scripts (zAppBuild or self-written) into an image to use it across different builds. Today, IDz supports sta...
    2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 3 Not under consideration

    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 IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

    Add ability to toggle on and off quotes around DBB IDz User Build entry for paths that have a user name with a # or # in the path

    We are encountering issues with DBB and the dbb-zappbuild scripts that we believe are the result of the UserID naming strategy for the environment.On the system we are currently trying to test in all UserIDs follow a naming convention which includ...
    4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Needs more information

    Improve the DBB usability

    IDzEE should implement a sort of “profile project” file. The idea is to have the profile project file to be available for users when a new project is created (cloned/fetched), based on this file, developers would include their compile options (COB...
    5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Needs more information

    User Build - Automatically upload additional dependent files when changed

    For VS Code it is possible to define additionalDependencies necessary to execute an User Build in zapp.yaml. The defined files / directories are uploaded to the z/OS-workspace while running "Setup for IBM User Build". Generally the user build conf...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

    Add support for Easytrieve dependancy discovery during IDz User Build Wizard

    Currently the IDz User Build Wizard only supports Enterprise Cobol and Enterprise PL/I include files. We would like to expand this functionality to support Easytrieve dependency discovery. There was an existing IBM Idea that was rejected in 2024 b...
    8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

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