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Login with OpenID as the default

We want to set OpenID as the default login option. Now users must always select this option to enter the web server and that is not the best experience. I added a screenshot to ilustrate it.
about 7 hours ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Filter with any status on Deployment Process logs

We would like to be able to filter on a Deployment Process for any possible state. Now we are only able to filter by : 'Any', 'Not Executed', 'Success', 'Canceled' or 'Failed'. But there are other possible states: 'Running', 'Precondition Failed',...
about 7 hours ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Enable installation of versionless features via installUtility

Currently the installation of versionless features over installUtility is not supported. When server.xml contains configuration like: <server> <featureManager onError="WARN"> <platform>javaee-8.0</platform> <feature>...
6 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Graceful pause of CICS liberty port to prevent transaction loss

When a CICS liberty port was paused, we found that some API transactions are abended. We understand that when the port was paused, the TCP listener stops accepting NEW connections immediately. The channel destruction happens quickly which means th...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

certifying the WebSphere Liberty operator into the RedHat Catalog

Requesting new ideas to facilitate the certification of the WebSphere Liberty Operator in the Red Hat Catalog. This certification is important as the operator is essential for enabling the Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) on the OpenShi...
28 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

IBM DevOps Deploy – Active/Active (A/A) Database Cleanup Support

1. Current Product Behavior Limits Active/Active Operations IBM DevOps Deploy supports High Availability through clustered application servers sharing a common database and file system. However, in practice, the product’s internal maintenance and ...
21 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

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 ...
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Extend IBM DevOps deploy Vault integration to support multiple vault environments(Specifically Open Source)

IBM DevOps Deploy (UCD )is currently able to integrate with enterprise harshicorp vault instance for secret retrieval during deployment. This integration is functional and in active use for the pipelines. However, our Organization operates on a Op...
25 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

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...
28 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review