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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 15, 2022

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Rearrange the Configure User Build views

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

The Configure User Build dialog has the following pages:

  1. General information

  2. File attributes

  3. Log File

  4. Script parameters

  5. Additonal Files to Load

Options 2 and 3 only have to be specified once but we never change them post the initial configuration. Option 1 we sometimes (very rarely) have to change. Normally this also stays the same. The things we do most regularly are Option 4 and Option 5.

The reasons for why we are using those options are:

Option 4 - support will ask developers to add --verbose to get debug output for the build in case of errors; developers will provide custom property files as a parameter

Option 5 - property files have to be selected because they are not transferred automatically (there is an idea for this already) or because we are using macro languages where dependencies cannot be discovered and have to be transferred manually

The idea would be to rearrange these options to see 4 and 5 first and then 3, 1 and 2. From my experience and now working with hundreds of developers this would make a lot more sense.

I understand that for an initial configuration the order it currently has makes a lot of sense because you have to select a sandbox folder first to later select a log directory. However, this can be solved by enforcing the configure dialog on the project (not on a project) and then have it optimized for the user build dialog for programs.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 7, 2023
    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us. Your request is currently in line with our product strategy and we added it as a candidate for future releases of the product. Thank you for your suggestion and continued support.
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 2, 2023

    This request for improvement does not concern the core system of DBB but its mode of call in IDZ (plugin). I will forward your proposal to the IDZ team.

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