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    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 ...
    almost 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 3 Delivered

    Tablename COLLECTION should be changed

    The table COLLECTION in the DBB ddl is named after the z/OS DB2 reseved word COLLECTION. The table should be renamed (e.g. DBBCOLECTION) so that customers don't have to do changes to the ddl before its execution.
    almost 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 3 Delivered

    Description on how to implement DBB application server as a high-availability cluster

    Description for how to implement DBB application server as a high-availability cluster. Currently, we have a single Linux server running the DBB application server to evaluate the product. To go into production, we must be able to host the DBB app...
    over 4 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

    Improve Return Code Handling in JCL EXEC API

    Today, the JCLExec API returns the maxRC as a String, which need to be split by a customer script again. See the ZUnitConfig.groovy in zAppBuild for example.Please enhance the API to extract the completion code as an Integer value to simplify scri...
    almost 4 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

    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 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

    DBB API - Manage a return code for each MVSExec for a chaining sequence in an MVSJob

    Hi, The MVSJob API allows you to chain MVSExec objects and execute them in sequence until an RC value exceeds the specified maxRC value. Sample from zAppbuild BMS.groovy: def rc = new MVSJob().executable(copyGen) .executable(compile) .executable(l...
    over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

    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...
    over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

    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...
    over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

    Support MySQL for the DBB WebApp

    Add support for MySQL and MariaDB (the community version of MySQL)
    about 5 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

    Support RHEL 8 for the DBB WebApp

    Add support for RHEL 8 for the DBB Wep App
    about 5 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

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