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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...
about 7 hours ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Publish Application Modernization Accelerator in the Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog

Publishing Application Modernization Accelerator in the Red Hat Certified Operator Catalog streamlines Red Hat OpenShift deployment and support.
7 days ago in App Runtime Tooling Submitted

websphere liberty password identification if encoded with custom aes key or default key

Hi Team, From 26.0.0.3 custom aes key implementation is enforced. https://openliberty.io/blog/2025/12/02/25.0.0.12.html#aes256 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/base?topic=slia-supplying-your-own-aes-256-key-password-encryption Now as earlie...
8 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 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...
8 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Support custom Eclipse options in ClearCase help browser spawned by cleartool man or the "online help" option on Windows.

In the current releases, cleartool man on windows spawns CTE... If the host is impacted by Eclipse issue https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.ui/issues/1704 The help pages will not display correctly, possibly losing the table of co...
11 days ago in Heritage / ClearCase 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 ...
11 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Roadmap for supporting Jakarta 10 and JPA 3.x

We need to move to at least Java 17 and have recently upgraded to RAD 10.0 for Java 17 support. We also have applications which use JPA, that will require some modernization to move to JPA 3.x/Jakarta 10; however, we have found that there is no JP...
12 days ago in Heritage / Application Developer Submitted

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

MISRA C 2025 Compliance for static analysis checks

MISRA C 2025 is now available. A standard out-of-the-box configuration would make it easier to adopt these coding guidelines.https://misra.org.uk/product/misra-c2025/
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Embedded Submitted

Support for Buildforge database on AWS RDS

One of our clients wants to migrate BuildForge to AWS with the buildforege database schema from on-prem database to AWS RDS database. But current databases on AWS RDS is not supported.
3 months ago in Heritage / Build Forge Submitted