Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status: Closed (View Workflow)
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Component/s: zos-connector-plugin
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Labels:None
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Environment:Jenkins 2.150.1 on Windows 10 1809 64-bit
IBM z/OS Connector 2.0.1
EnvInject API Plugin 1.5
Environment Injector Plugin 2.1.6
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Released As:attachment
Description
Prior to version 2 of the plugin, the JCL that was submitted allowed for variable substitution within the job. We used this extensively (generating timestamps, starting/stopping configurable CICS regions, etc) in the JCL that we have and were running on a regular basis.
I can't think of a simple way to replicate this. The best I can think of is an intermediate step from checkout to injection where a shell or command script is run to perform the substitutions prior to the submission. But this feels a bit awkward, and error prone.
I'd really like to see this functionality restored, if possible.
Happy to look into it myself, just might take a while.
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Will either drop issue in a week if no response or update (if have ability to test myself).
I've successfully tested the snapshot in our environment. Tests include:
- Starting a Freestyle job (with parms) that starts a CICS region
- Starting a Freestyle job (with parms) that stops a CICS region
- Starting a pipeline job that invokes the stop and start jobs to bounce a region
- Started a Freestyle job that runs a simple job on the mainframe with a substituted timestamp for generating an archive
The job definitions aren't attached, but I have included the groovy, pipeline and JCL (using File System SCM) that I used for my tests. Nothing flash, but they all work again as expected. I still have others that need testing but that relies on an IPL cycle which isn't slated for a while. But given these work, I fully expect those to work as well.
Thanks heaps for the fast turnaround on this.
Daniel Stratton
added a comment - I've successfully tested the snapshot in our environment. Tests include:
Starting a Freestyle job (with parms) that starts a CICS region
Starting a Freestyle job (with parms) that stops a CICS region
Starting a pipeline job that invokes the stop and start jobs to bounce a region
Started a Freestyle job that runs a simple job on the mainframe with a substituted timestamp for generating an archive
The job definitions aren't attached, but I have included the groovy, pipeline and JCL (using File System SCM) that I used for my tests. Nothing flash, but they all work again as expected. I still have others that need testing but that relies on an IPL cycle which isn't slated for a while. But given these work, I fully expect those to work as well.
Thanks heaps for the fast turnaround on this. released as 2.1.0
I'll create new version with such support and will upload it here by tomorrow.
Kindly verify this version and give feedback before I go and release it.