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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories Wazi Deploy
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 17, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Improve documentation of data available in jinja2 templates

We use jinja2 templates to generate JCL submited by job_submit templates. We often need to loop trough the artifacts 
and generate jcl. For us it is not clear what data wazi provides that can we can exploit in the templates. 

there is a note on this page but it is not really a documentation of the data structures. 

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/17.0.x?topic=translators-coding-variables-in-jinja2-templates

We need proper documentation of this data and also information on interface changes so that we can manage our jinja2 templates. 

One missing information is the target dataset in the artifacts dictionary. We often need to generate DD statements with PDS datasets, for example

//BINDPKG  DD *
{% for artifact in step.artifacts -%}
//*        DD DISP=SHR,DSN={{environment.hlq}}.PKG({{ artifact['name'] }})
{% endfor %}

 

In this case it would be great if we could code artifact['target_dataset'] (new property)

//BINDPKG  DD *
{% for artifact in step.artifacts -%}
//*        DD DISP=SHR,DSN={{artifact['target_dataset']}}({{ artifact['name'] }})
{% endfor %}

 

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