IBM User Build - Consistency of menus and commands

[FALLAI-Denis]

Description of the enhancement requested

As part of the IBM Dependency Based Build implementation, we are investigating the use of the IBM User Build feature of Z Open Editor.

We cannot directly use the menus offered by Z Open Editor because we have to manage the cohabitation between our old build system and IBM DBB. The choice of the build system is contextual to the Workspace, (in fact to the Git Repository, and the build system to use for the Git Repository is indicated at the Jenkinsfile level).

We are therefore going to use an overlay extension to drive IBM User Build when using IBM DBB and call the IBM User Build commands from this overlay extension.

By analyzing the Z Open Editor package.json file, and the menus and commands displayed, I think it would be desirable to make some adjustments to give more consistency.

At menu level:

• replace "Run setup for IBM User Build" by "Run IBM User Build setup", so that all menu choices start with "Run IBM User Build"
• I also think that the menu texts between the two User Builds modes should be more precise, and I will suggest: Run IBM User Build with smart dependencies upload Run IBM User Build with full dependencies upload

At the command palette level:

• there is a redundancy of "IBM User Build"... I think command labels are related to menu labels

At command level:

• replace "extension.setup" (which can be ambiguous) with "extension.setup-userbuild", or "extension.userbuild-setup" (and in the latter case replace "extension.full-userbuild" with "extension.userbuild-full", to have the same command structure with the term "userbuild" at the beginning)

[ratnamGT]

I am not able to see the 'Run IBM userbuild ' option on menu while right click on the cobol programs. however I enabled userbuild in user and workspace settings .Could you please help me?

[sdaimwood]

I am not able to see the 'Run IBM userbuild ' option on menu while right click on the cobol programs. however I enabled userbuild in user and workspace settings .Could you please help me?

Hi @ratnamGT, to run IBM User Build you need to right click in the editor of a COBOL program.

Attached is an image of what a right click should display in a COBOL program from our sample repository.

We will note the ability to right click a COBOL program from the File Explorer as a an enhancement though, that would be a great feature addition. Thank you!

[ratnamGT]

@sdaimwood Thanks for your response ,Yes When I open the cobol program in editor then I can see the above menu option along with 'Run IBM user Build' .But it is not showing in while I right click on cobol program in explorer without opening thne cobol code in editor. Is this option deprecated ? Or their is any settings in VS code where I can enable it.

[sdaimwood]

Hi @ratnamGT, unfortunately, starting user builds from the explorer is not functionality we support currently. The team has noted it as a useful feature to look into for a future release though. Thank you for the suggestion!