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    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

    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 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

    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

    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

    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

    Release TPF Debugger from IBM TPF Toolkit as Java Library

    Take the IBM TPF Debugger facilities that exist in IBM TPF Toolkit 4.6 and make available to customers as a stand-alone Java library (NOT as an Eclipse plug-in). n other words, provide the Java library that is responsible for the functionality to ...
    about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 5 Not under consideration

    Dependency scanner to use CSECT in BZUCFG to support when moduler-under-test is different from loadmodulename

    If you perform zUnit testing on a program which is located in a load module which has a different name than the program name then DBB reads he BZUCFG incorrectly. The situation happens when testing statically called programs, or when the main prog...
    over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Future consideration

    Extend COPY-to-PDS API to link to buildFile

    Today, the Transfer.groovy script of zAppBuild allows us to push non-buildable files through the pipeline. All MVSExec execute records are showing a relative file path of the repository based on the build file reference. It would be consistent, if...
    over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Functionality already exists

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