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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

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

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...
11 months ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

zappbuild Assembler.groovy DD updates

For Assembler.groovy to work in my environment I have had to make the following modifications. I think these for fit nicely into the zappbuild application We use SYSTERM linkedit parm and would like it to optionally print along with the other prin...
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 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 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Not under 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

DBB: C and C++ compile support including ErrorFeedback

Currently only PLI, Cobol and Assembler compiles with ErrorFeedback are supported in the latest DBB version of IDz16. For the programming languages C and C++ there is no standard support. A custom implementation in Groovy for the C and C++ compile...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Future consideration

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