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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 ...
19 days 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...
24 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...
27 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 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...
27 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

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...
27 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 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

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

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

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