CLI Deprecation Notice

With the introduction of the new CLI commands, the following commands have been deprecated and will be removed in a later release. You can still use these commands to interact with legacy metadata collections. View the new commands at Metadata store command-line interface.

Build group commands

The following build group commands are available:

Build group list

This command lists the names of all the build groups in the metadata store.

Usage

dbb build-group list [options]

Positional arguments

  • None

Command Options

  • None

Configuration options

Note that you can omit the configuration options if the CLI session is started and active.

You can specify the following options:

  • --type for the metadata store implementation type. The possible values are file (default) and db2.

  • --location for the location of the file system implementation. The default value is $HOME.

  • --user for the Db2® connection user ID.

  • --password for the Db2 connection password.
    IMPORTANT: The password must be encrypted with the DBB password utility. See Encrypting metadata store passwords.

  • --password-file for the location of Db2 connection password that is stored in a password file.
    IMPORTANT: The password file contains an encrypted password and must be generated with the DBB password utility. See Encrypting metadata store passwords.

  • --url for the Db2 server location. It can be local or a remote URL. It is optional if the URL is provided in the --db2_config file.

  • --db2-config for the location of the Db2 connection configuration file.

Build group view

This command displays the objects of the build group.

Usage

dbb build-group view <groupName> [options]

Positional arguments

  • groupName for the name of the build group to view

Command Options

  • None

Configuration options

Note that you can omit the configuration options if the CLI session is started and active.

You can specify the following options:

  • --type for the metadata store implementation type. The possible values are file (default) and db2.

  • --location for the location of the file system implementation. The default value is $HOME.

  • --user for the Db2® connection user ID.

  • --password for the Db2 connection password.
    IMPORTANT: The password must be encrypted with the DBB password utility. See Encrypting metadata store passwords.

  • --password-file for the location of Db2 connection password that is stored in a password file.
    IMPORTANT: The password file contains an encrypted password and must be generated with the DBB password utility. See Encrypting metadata store passwords.

  • --url for the Db2 server location. It can be local or a remote URL. It is optional if the URL is provided in the --db2_config file.

  • --db2-config for the location of the Db2 connection configuration file.

Build group delete

This command deletes a build group from the metadata store.

Usage

dbb build-group delete <groupName> [options]

Positional arguments

  • groupName for the name of the build group to delete

Command Options

  • None

Configuration options

Note that you can omit the configuration options if the CLI session is started and active.

You can specify the following options:

  • --type for the metadata store implementation type. The possible values are file (default) and db2.

  • --location for the location of the file system implementation. The default value is $HOME.

  • --user for the Db2® connection user ID.

  • --password for the Db2 connection password.
    IMPORTANT: The password must be encrypted with the DBB password utility. See Encrypting metadata store passwords.

  • --password-file for the location of Db2 connection password that is stored in a password file.
    IMPORTANT: The password file contains an encrypted password and must be generated with the DBB password utility. See Encrypting metadata store passwords.

  • --url for the Db2 server location. It can be local or a remote URL. It is optional if the URL is provided in the --db2_config file.

  • --db2-config for the location of the Db2 connection configuration file.

Build group export

This command exports a build group and all the build results to a subdirectory in the export directory.

Usage

dbb build-group export <groupName> --directory <exportDirectory> [options]

Positional arguments

  • groupName for the name of the build group to export

Command Options

  • --directory (required) for the directory to export the build group subfolder.
  • --encoding <codePage> for the optional encoding of the text artifacts. It defaults to the default code page of the z/OS® UNIX system.

Configuration options

Note that you can omit the configuration options if the CLI session is started and active.

You can specify the following options:

  • --type for the metadata store implementation type. The possible values are file (default) and db2.

  • --location for the location of the file system implementation. The default value is $HOME.

  • --user for the Db2® connection user ID.

  • --password for the Db2 connection password.
    IMPORTANT: The password must be encrypted with the DBB password utility. See Encrypting metadata store passwords.

  • --password-file for the location of Db2 connection password that is stored in a password file.
    IMPORTANT: The password file contains an encrypted password and must be generated with the DBB password utility. See Encrypting metadata store passwords.

  • --url for the Db2 server location. It can be local or a remote URL. It is optional if the URL is provided in the --db2_config file.

  • --db2-config for the location of the Db2 connection configuration file.