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Expose Deployment genie for API use

We have a significant percentage of our dev teams that use Azure pipelines to launch a DevOps Deploy job, so they never login to the deploy console. We want to let those jobs get the benefit of Genie. If Genie was exposed via API we could add some...
1 day ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Migration from uDeploy Oracle DB(19c) to Oracle ExaCC

Part of ANZ initiative and roadmap, they decided to migrate all the existing Applications hosted in Oracle to Oracle EXACC. Being one of the consumer of Oracle 19C, DevOps Deploy also included in the scope. Currently, it has been tested in Develop...
1 day ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Historical records in Z Search to cover audit information requests for Mainframe applications

We have internal and external request for different audit processes asking when a specific version of a Mainframe file was deployed. For example, certain functionality was added to a routine and we need to know when that functionality reached prod...
9 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Dry Run option for deployment steps

In our current migration process of current Mainframe aplications to our new tooling using IBM DevOps Deploy we must deploy over already existing PDSs. We want to be able to validate which PDS members, with runtime incremental deployment, will be ...
12 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Getting Peak License Usage

We are occasionally asked to report our “peak” license usage. This has historically been difficult to determine because there is no persistent history tracking agent license consumption. While there is a high watermark metric (via getHighWatermark...
17 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Enable Stdout Protection – to prevent log files from being overwritten during server startups

We identified the following file, which is overwritten whenever the server is restarted: /opt/IBM/devops_deploy/server/var/log/stdout This file contains information that differs from deployserver.out and is valuable for debugging purposes. Current...
17 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

DevOps Deploy Plugin - F5 (BigIP)- Need a feature to Enable Health Monitor in F5 and Perform Health Monitor Check

DevOps Deploy Plugin - F5 (BigIP)- Need a feature to Enable Health Monitor in F5 and Perform Health Monitor Check
23 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Needs more information

Additional properties for the UrbanCode git plugin

We need to have more customization in our git config and would like to be able to configure that through the component properties on our git components.
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Planned for future release

Optional Description Parameter for buztool

Hello IBM DevOps Deploy Team, We would like to propose a small enhancement to the buztool tool. Currently, when creating a component version with buztool, there is no option to set the version description at creation time. It would be very useful ...
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Allow custom process/request properties to be injected into inProps for any step

Currently in IBM DevOps Deploy, step scripts (such as Groovy steps) can only access properties provided in inProps by the plugin infrastructure. Properties from other scopes (process, request, or previous step outputs) are not available unless the...
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review