if (isUnix()) {
                            sh "rm -rvf $WORK_DIR/dists $WORK_DIR/it-local-repo"
                        } else {
                            bat "if exist it-local-repo rmdir /s /q it-local-repo"
                            bat "if exist dists         rmdir /s /q dists"
                        }
                        dir('dists') {
                          unstash 'maven-dist-s390x'
                        }

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                                }
                            }
                        } finally {
                            deleteDir() // clean up after ourselves to reduce disk space
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

// run the parallel ITs
parallel(runITsTasks)

        // The root artifact may, or may not be resolved so we need to check before we attempt to resolve.
        // This is often an artifact like a POM that is taken from disk and we already have hold of the
        // file reference. But this may be a Maven Plugin that we need to resolve from a remote repository
        // as well as its dependencies.

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        //
        // The request has not set any local or remote repositories as the system scoped dependency being resolved
        // should only
        // give us the dependency off the disk and nothing more.
        //
        request = new ArtifactResolutionRequest()
                .setArtifact(artifact)
                .setResolveRoot(true)
                .setResolveTransitively(true);