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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 4 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Build Map to include Source PDS apart from GIT Path

As a part of COBOL Build the PDS from where a COPYBOOK/DCLGEN dependency is resolved can be extracted and stored in Build Map along with ISPF stats attached to the member. This will help in detecting changes made to the dependency when the COBOL e...
6 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 3 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 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 3 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 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...
over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Is a defect

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 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Functionality already exists

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 2 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 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

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'...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

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