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Using the Bill of Materials

The system generates a Bill of Materials (BOM) after each job. The BOM contains information about the steps in the job and the changes to files that resulted from it. The BOM can be provided to consumers of the job, such as your quality assurance department, for help in understanding the contents of a new job. It can serve as an audit solution for your build and release process. With the BOM, you get complete documentation of a job's contents. It can include the results, notes, environments, lists of files, and code changes. This can be used to compare and summarize the state of builds across the enterprise.

The system generates a BOM for each job automatically, but you can use dot commands to cause the system to store additional information about the state of your files before and after the build.