Description
The External Artifact Repository plug-in downloads artifacts from a Nexus or JFrog Artifactory repository into an HCL Launch z/OS type component.
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Quick Info
Product
DevOps Deploy (HCL Launch)
Type
plugin
Compatibility
HCL Launch version 7.0.x or later
Created by
HCLSoftware
Published Date
Last Updated
Summary
Usage
Steps
Summary
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.
Compatibility
This HCL Launch version 7 or later.
Installation
See Installing plugins in HCL Launch for installing and removing plugins.
Usage
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.
Step palette
To access this plugin in the palette, click Repositories > Artifact > zOS ExternalArtifactsDownload.
Steps
The following process steps are available in the External Artifact Repository plugin.
Download Artifacts
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 | Boolean | Check this box to use API key authentication with artifact repository. Doesn’t work with Nexus. | No |
| Artifactory api key | String | The api key used to authenticate with the artifactory repository. | No |
Hidden input properties:
- Select the Proxy checkbox to enable proxy connection to artifactory using passed Proxy Host and Port. Proxy does not work for Nexus.
- Review with your security administrators before allowing insecure connection. The feature is disabled by default.
