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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...
6 months ago in Dependency Based Build 2 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...
10 months ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

Missing actual Build date and time in DBB Build report

After the DBB User build / Pipeline build (impact build), DBB will generate a “Build Report” and showing DBB toolkit version details on the top of the report, which is not much relevant to developers. Instead that information, developer wanted the...
2 months ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

DBB CLI - Added output formatting option

Hi, The transition from DBB v1 to DBB V2 resulted in the disappearance of the Web Application, and the provision of a command line to manage the metadatastrore. The command line does not provide the same services as the Web Application: you nee...
7 months ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

Extend JCLExec API to specify the buildFile

Today, when submitting a JCL with an inline JCL, the DBB build report is showing an entry the build report with the file as "undefined". It would be great, if the API could be extended with a new (optional) method like `buildFile(String)` to set t...
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement in Scratch Functionality for accurate clean up into the system

In Current architecture of IBM DBB we are populating the delete record in build report based on the value of ${langPrefix}_outputDatasets. Example: If we are processing a DB2 component then we are just populating the delete record for load but we ...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Planned for future release

Enhance Java Doc API when saving job output to describe default encodings

The Java doc for DBB is not specifying the default encodings which are used for any of the saveOutput() methods https://www.ibm.com/docs/api/v1/content/SS6T76_2.0.0/javadoc/com/ibm/dbb/build/JobExec.html#saveOutput-java.io.File- Methods which don'...
8 months ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

Documentation doesn't mention soft link for /usr/bin/env which seems to be needed for scripts to work properly

Having this mentioned in documentation may save a big number of hours of debugging everyone's first build process with DBB and groove. The user responsible for running dbb builds has Bash set as their default shell (configured via OMVS PROGRAM set...
10 months ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

Registration Scanner to record logical files but skip scanning them

There are scenarios, where a LogicalFile should be recorded within the Metadatastore, but the file does not need to be scanned. This applies for instance for configuration files, JCL, XML, PROCs, DDL and others. Today, the DBB SearchPathDependency...
10 months ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

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