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Provide a sample job for required RACF definitions

With DBB 2.0, when using the Db2 metadata store, the user connecting to the metadata store is required to be part of one of the 3 RACF groups (DBBADMNS,DBBUSERS,DBBGUEST). See also the IBM Doc - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/dbb/2.0.0?topic=customiz...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2

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 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Future consideration

Update the resolver to identify MQ for batch programs

Dbb was updated to identify MQ programs during source scanning. It works great until it runs against out batch MQ programs where are using CSQB* modules such as CSQBCONN. The scanner does not detect these as MQ and as a result the program is deter...
about 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Is a defect

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...
3 months ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

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...
8 months ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Future consideration

Addition of an "USS Command" record and enhancements to the DBB BuildReport table

USS Command record : This new record would be used to store information about the execution of a USS command. It would be reported in the DBB BuildReport for subsequent processing (like packaging or UCD component version creation). This record wou...
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 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...
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Functionality already exists

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

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