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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Dependency Based Build
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 25, 2023

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DBB CLI - Added output formatting option

Hi,


The transition from DBB v1 to DBB V2 resulted in the disappearance of the Web Application, and the provision of a command line to manage the metadatastrore.

The command line does not provide the same services as the Web Application: you need a user-friendly interface to query and administer the metadatastore.

The command line produces text output, without metadata, not necessarily easy to use in a tooling.

I propose that the various commands of the CLI interface optionally produce a structured result, a priori in the form of JSON objects, but other output formats are possible (YAML, CSV, etc.).

This would allow DBB command line calls to be integrated into tools like:

  • a WEB server like the Web Application, (using Apache WEB Server on z/OS, and probably a scripting language as PHP or even Rexx)

  • an extension for the VS Code development environment, (which would link with IBM Z Open Editor and its IBM User Build interface which allows interfacing with IBM DBB, even if in this case the metadatastrore is not imploded).

The structure of the outputs could use what existed for the REST interface of the DBB V1 version: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/dbb/1.1?topic=reference-web-application-rest-api

Thanks.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Senthil Nathan
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    |     Dec 12, 2023

    This idea coincides with our thought process on the CLIs.. We will add this in our roadmap for a future release

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