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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories Wazi Deploy
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 4, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Support merging of overlapping packages in wazideploy-generate

Wazideploy-generate accepts multiple packages and creates a merged package input file for the deployment execution.

Today, it does not manage overlapping package well, e.q. 

Outline: 

* Pkg A containing a SAMP.JCL deletion

* Pkg B containing a SAMP.JCL change

If the order for wazideploy-generate is Pkg A, Pkg B, then the deletion could be omitted, because it is processed by a single deployment process.

If the order is, Pkg B, then Pkg A, the change of SAMP.JCL needs to be omitted in the merged package, because the user expects the file be deleted at the end of the process.

 

Messages are expected on the output log of  wazideploy-generate 

 

 

 

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