The External Artifact Repository plug-in downloads artifacts from a Nexus or JFrog Artifactory repository into an HCL Deploy z/OS type component.
The zOS External Artifact Utility plug-in includes steps to integrate with external repositories like Nexus or JFrog for zOS.
This plug-in includes the following steps:
The External Artifact Repository plugin automates the downloading of z/OS artifacts from a Nexus or JFrog Artifactory repository.
This plugin includes one or more steps, click Steps for step details and properties.
See Installing plugins in HCL Deploy (Launch) for installing and removing plugins.
| Version | Notes |
|---|---|
| 13 |
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| 12 | Added support for token for artifactory |
| 11 | Added support to verify checksum of component versions |
| 10 | Added support to handle AT_TLS configuration for external servers. Fix Jettison Vulnerability Enhancement to Download artifacts without credentials. |
| 9 | Minor Improvements and upgraded log4j |
| 8 | Added support to run with insecure connection |
| 7 | Added support to run this from non zOS agent Minor improvements for new package format |
| 6 | Added support to run this from non zOS agent |
| 5 | Enhancement to extract files for package format v2 |
| 4 | Implemented the proxy changes for artifactory server |
| 3 | Implemented the api key changes for artifactory server |
| 2 | PH20336 - Fixed the default value for extRepoURL and changed the plugin to fail when it is not able to download artifacts |
| 1 | Used to download artifacts from external repository like NEXUS/ARTIFACTORY and then we can use Deploy Data Sets step to do zOS deployment. |
Use this plugin to automate downloading of z/OS artifacts from a Nexus Artifactory or JFrog repository to z/OS. The artifacts can then be deployed using the Deploy Dataset step of the zOS Utility plugin.
To create the z/OS component version, use the buztool.sh command from job control language (JCL) or from the z/OS UNIX System Services command line. You must specify the -ar parameter on the command. This parameter provides details about the artifactory needed to upload artifacts. The link from the external artifact repository is stored as a component version property, named extRepoURL. The property is used to download the artifacts.
For additional information, see Creating z/OS component versions in the product documentation.
To access this plugin in the palette, click Repositories > Artifact > zOS ExternalArtifactsDownload.
The following process steps are available in the External Artifact Repository plugin.
Download a z/OS package from an external artifact repository. The repository can be either a Nexus or Artifactory repository.
| Name | Type | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| Repository URL | String | The URL of the repository. | Yes |
| User Name | String | The user name used to authenticate with the repository. | Yes |
| Repository Password | String | The password used to authenticate with the repository. | Yes |
| Artifactory api key/ Token | String | The api key used to authenticate with the artifactory repository. | No |
Create a merged version for JFrog artifactory from a set of existing versions in external repository
| Name | Type | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merged Version Name | String | Merged Version Name | Yes |
| Component Name | String | Component Name | Yes |
| Versions To Merge | String | List of version names to be merged. Separate version names with a newline. | Yes |
| Repository URL | String | The URL of the external artifact repository. | Yes |
| Repository | String | Repository name | Yes |
| Repository User Name | String | Username to be used for authentication. | Yes |
| Repository Password/API Key/Token | String | Password or API-Key or Token to be used for authentication. | Yes |
Create a merged version for Nexus from a set of existing versions in external repository
| Name | Type | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merged Version Name | String | Merged Version Name | Yes |
| Component Name | String | Component Name | Yes |
| Versions To Merge | String | List of version names to be merged. Separate version names with a newline. | Yes |
| Repository URL | String | The URL of the external artifact repository. | Yes |
| Repository | String | Repository name | Yes |
| Raw Directory | String | Raw Directory | Yes |
| Repository User Name | String | Username to be used for authentication. | Yes |
| Repository Password/API Key/Token | String | Password or API-Key or Token to be used for authentication. | Yes |
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