4 posts tagged with "build specialist"

If you have landed on this page, you most certainly know what DBB is, but just in case, let me (re)introduce it.

IBM Dependency Based Build (DBB for short) is an intelligent build product for traditional z/OS applications written in languages such as COBOL and PL/I that allows the analysis of build dependencies between objects. read more...

The DBB Git Migration-Modeler provides a guided approach to plan and migrate a source codebase from MVS™ datasets to z/OS® UNIX System Services folders, and helps to identify and document the boundaries of mainframe applications. This utility can facilitate your z/OS application migration by:

• performing an assessment to understand the usage and dependencies on include files and programs across applications.
• suggesting the appropriate owning application, and documenting the source-level and object-level dependencies between applications.
• automatically creating part of the configuration for the dbb-zAppBuild build framework by generating property files for the application's artifacts based on provided configuration mappings.

Visit the DBB Git Migration-Modeler repository to learn more and try it out!

As announced last year, DBB version 1.1.x will be going out of support on April 30, 2024 (see product lifecycle details here). To help customers understand the migration process from DBB 1.1.x to DBB 2.0, the IBM® DevOps Acceleration Team (DAT) blogged about how they uplifted their own demonstration environment (GitLab with an originally Derby-based DBB metadata store) in a non-disruptive way:

Delivering software and services at the speed that the market demands, requires IT teams to work together, and iterate rapidly. To be responsive to business demands, enterprise development teams need to read more...