diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index aa6580ca1..11b5712df 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ updates:
 
   # TODO not sure if dependabot will recognize non-standard pom file names? 
   - package-ecosystem: maven
-    directory: /tck-dist/src/main/starter/
+    directory: /tck-dist/src/main/
     schedule:
       interval: daily
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diff --git a/tck-dist/src/main/pom.xml b/tck-dist/src/main/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..68bee5fa2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tck-dist/src/main/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+ ~ Copyright (c) 2024 Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation
+ ~
+ ~ This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ ~ terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0, which is available at
+ ~ http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
+ ~
+ ~ This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
+ ~ Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the
+ ~ Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License,
+ ~ version 2 with the GNU Classpath Exception, which is available at
+ ~ https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
+ ~
+ ~ SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
+  -->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+ xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+
+ <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+ 
+ <!-- 
+      This is just an aggregator pom so that dependabot can find the starter poms
+      This aggregator is not packaged into the tck distribution
+  -->
+  
+ <groupId>jakarta.data</groupId>
+ <artifactId>data-tck-aggregator</artifactId>
+ <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  
+  <modules>
+	  <module>starter/ee-pom.xml</module>
+	  <module>starter/se-pom.xml</module>
+  </modules>
+ 
+ </project>
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