Support of Git submodules in Build process

[FALLAI-Denis]

Hi,

After reading various white papers on IBM DBB, and the implementation of zAppBuild, I deduced that the management of the search context of COPYBOOKs / INCLUDEs could be quite difficult to implement in Groovy scripts.

I'll suggest another approach: using Git's submodules feature.

A Git submodule allows you to reference a secondary Git repository branch from a primary Git repository:

• the main Git repository would contain all the sources for the programs
• the secondary Git repositories would contain all the COPYBOOKs / INCLUDEs necessary for the programs

The COPYBOOKs / INCLUDEs of external Applications would be searched in the master branch of secondary Git repositories.
The COPYBOOKs / INCLUDEs of the current Application would be searched for in the develop branch of the secondary Git Repository of the current Application, except for hotfix maintenance where the master branch should be used (switchover to be done before launching the hotfix build).

Would this mode of operation be compatible with IBM DBB (and Git for z/OS)?

See All languages (COBOL first) - Search for COPYBOOKs / INCLUDEs in Git Repositories in IBM / zopeneditor-about.

[dennis-behm]

Apologies for the late reply. We have customers who use ibm/dbb-zappbuild with git submodules.

So, yes. This is an absolutely valid scenario to include external dependencies into your build and also the IDE.