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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...
4 months ago in Dependency Based Build 2 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

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...
over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 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...
11 months ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under 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.
about 5 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 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...
about 4 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Not under 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...
about 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 3 Not under consideration

Provide a batch mode for the CreatePasswordFile utility

At the moment, the CreatePasswordFile utility requires an interactive console which prompts the user for the password. This idea is about to extend the CreatePasswordFile util and supply a batch mode: The user supplies both the password file locat...
almost 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

COBOL - Support for COPYBOOKs conditional inclusion

Hi, We use IBM Enterprise COBOL V6, and we have taken advantage of conditional compilation to develop a framework of "adaptives" COPYBOOKs: conditional compilation variables are valued in the source code of the COBOL program; some are through DEFI...
over 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Add Docker support to DBB server

Sun Life is interested in running DBB Web Server (non-mainframe component) into Docker. It aligns with their overall enterprise strategy. It will be more efficient for Sun Life to have DBB running on Docker than maintain a server on a distributed ...
over 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

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