You can perform build administration tasks, such as
starting and stopping build engines, organizing and identifying builds for
search purposes, managing which builds to delete, or associating a build with
a specific release.
Starting and stopping the Jazz Build Engine
The Jazz Build Engine processes
build requests. You start the build engine from a command line and stop the
build engine from the build engine console.
Tagging a build
You can tag builds to organize them or identify them for search
purposes. You can also select a tag from an existing list of tags. A tag is
a single word with no spaces. A build result can have multiple tags associated
with it.
Canceling a build request
You can only cancel a pending build before the build starts. The
canceled build request is removed from the build queue. You cannot cancel
a running build.
Abandoning a build
The Jazz repository normally
tracks the progress of a running build to its completion. However, occasionally
the repository stops tracking a build. For example, a power outage or build
machine failure ends the build processes or leaves them in a corrupted state.
If this occurs, the build state remains in progress and the build does not
complete.
Automatically deleting build results
You can set up Jazz to automatically delete old build results, so that
they do not clutter your repository. You can define the number
of successful or failed build results that you want to keep. Older build results
are deleted first.
Associating a build with a release
You can associate a completed build with a release. In a work item,
the Found In field lists releases, so when you associate
a build with a release, the work item Found In field
lists the build label as a selection.
Creating an encrypted password file
You can create an encrypted password file that you can use with
the Jazz build
toolkit Ant tasks or to start the Jazz Build Engine.