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In zBuilder, allow language task steps to opt-in to execution even when a prior step exceeds maxRC

In the current DBB zBuilder framework, when any step in a language task returns a return code (RC) greater than the configured maxRC, the remaining steps in that language task are not executed. This default behavior is desirable in most cases, but...
about 2 months ago in Dependency Based Build Future consideration

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:...
7 months ago in Dependency Based Build Future consideration

Modify DBB Scanner to Recognize Easytrieve Includes

During the build, the sources are scanned to detect the dependencies between files. The scanner running right now is able to scan Easytrieve files but it doesn't detect any dependencies so IBM has to modify this scanner.
over 5 years ago in Dependency Based Build Not under consideration

Increase size of DB2 column LF_LNAME in table LOGICAL_FILE to accomodate larger input file names.

Currently the column LOGICAL_FILE.LF_LNAME is set to CHAR(32) in the DBB DB2 metadata store. In some situations this causes DB2 error (SQLCODE=-302, SQLSTATE=22001) when trying to use files with names longer than 32 characters. The only solution t...
over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build Planned for future release

support COBOL/Java interoperability

With Cobol 6.4 COBOL/Java interoperability was improved but we can not build such a Programm using DBB out of the box. We need the following. 1) Dependency Scanner should detect the following JAVA-CALLABLE directive JAVA-SHAREABLE directive Enhanc...
almost 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build Planned for future release

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build Not under consideration

Dedicated ISPF Client Gateway configuration for DBB

Today, DBB's API for TSOExec and ISPFExec use the default system wide ISPF Client Gateway configuration. When the build framework has specific requirements on the configuration, such as the Db2 library on the STEPLIB or using the interactive gatew...
about 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build Not under consideration

DBB Toolkit API - CopyToPDS does not support statistics

When the CopyToPDS command from the DBB Toolkit API is invoked to copy a ZFS file to a partitioned dataset, then the copied member in the PDS(E) has not statistics. The size, created, changed and ID fields are all empty. This does not seem logical...
over 4 years ago in Dependency Based Build Not under consideration

Make custom CLI arguments available to the build context

Today, the zBuilder framework accepts command line options to configure the various lifecycles. However, the variables defined and passed in via the CLI are not automatically available to the language task configuration. Idea is to enable the fram...
3 months ago in Dependency Based Build Future consideration

Gradle support

Gradle support as part of DBB would bring the build capabilities closer to the rest of the industry. By supporting Gradle existing Gradle plugins for pipelines could be used. Having DBB as it's own build process continues to make it just different...
over 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build Not under consideration

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