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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

Add Docker support to DBB server

Sun Life is interested in running DBB Web Server (non-mainframe component) into Docker. It aligns with their overall enterprise strategy. It will be more efficient for Sun Life to have DBB running on Docker than maintain a server on a distributed ...
over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

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 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Support for the Fortran programming language in Dependency Based Build is needed.

The current GA release of DBB does not support the Fortran programming language. This is a requirement for usage of DBB in our Enterprise environment.
about 4 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Garanti Bank: RFE DBB's Load Scanner

Garanti is requesting an enhancement to the current load scanner to optionally report from the DBB WebApp both static and dynamic references within a given load module after a build. Dynamic modules include standard dynamic calls (DYNAM) and DLL b...
over 4 years ago in Dependency Based Build 3 Not under consideration

Need OpenID Connect for Liberty Webserver to work with DBB

Current Security Model used by DBB - LDAP or internal security are not approved standards for security at Bank of America.
over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

zAppBuild should provide a way for deleting the build datasets and the collections which are no longer needed

DBB does not have API to delete datasets, but the JZOS API has. From Joseph Taffe-Atkins5/UK/IBM I believe this is worth an enhancement request in zAppBuild to provide a way for deleting the build datasets and the collections which are no longer n...
about 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

DBB Toolkit API - Make execution of PROCS possible via MVSExec

At our company we make regular use of procedures in our JCL's and before we call these procedures we also make use of include members to set all kinds of variables used in these procedures. Example of a part of a jcl where we use a proc, called AP...
over 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Add support for the ++INCLUDE statement to the DBB Scanner

The IBM PL/I Compiler supports the ++INCLUDE construct using the PP(INCLUDE('ID(++INCLUDE)')) Compile parameter. The Scanner in DBB does not support the ++INCLUDE construct when scanning PL/I source code for include member dependencies. This lack ...
over 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Is a defect

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