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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...
about 13 hours ago in Heritage / Application Developer 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...
5 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

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...
5 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

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
11 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

"Modify" installs that do not manipulate the albd service should not prompt for albd process credentials.

When performing upgrade or modify installs, Installation Manager requires that the installing user provide the albd credentials. In "modify" cases where -- for example -- the user is adding a Visual Studio or other integration, the installer shoul...
3 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase 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/
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Embedded 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 ...
29 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Create additional rules to DevOps Test Embedded Code Review

Rule 1: following operators ( +=, -=, *=, /=, %=, <<=, >>=, &=, ^=, |= ) should never be used.Rules 2: The rules check that open and closing brackets are always the unique non space character on the line.Rule 3: The rule verify tha...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Embedded Submitted

WXS Client/server 8.6.1.x add support of TLS 1.3 based on JDK available on Websphere ND 9.0.5.x and 8.5.5.x

Hello based our problem : WXS Client/Server Issue on WAS 9.0.5.20 ==> 22 and 8.5.5.26 and 27 with java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: TLSv1.3,TLSv1.2 is not a recognized protocol discover the WXS doesn't support the Configuration on Websphere N...
11 months ago in WebSphere eXtreme Scale Submitted

oidc with Authorization Code flow with PKCE

we are using oidc for SSO in velocity, but it looks like it does not support Authorization Code flow with PKCE in current version of velocity. can you please enable in future releases.
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity Submitted