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Manage Security flag should be separated in low level permissions

Hi everyone, This request is related to product IBM Devops Deploy specifically in the Role configuration > Server configuration > Manage Security. We have noticed that only users with this flag active are able to manage the team assignment o...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Java Virtualization capability for JRE11 / BW5.15 Version

We used to virtualize ad consume the Java Calls initiated from tibco BW 5.13 (Java Version 8) and we spent lot of time and efforts in virtualizing the Java calls. Now, after the BW Version got upgraded to 5.15 with Java 11, the java agent shipped ...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization Under review

Draft editing for Application- & Generic Processes

Currently only Component Processes have the option to be edited safely using draft versions, as well as have approval processes enabled for them. These options do not exist for Application processes nor Generic processes. By having the option to e...
12 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Allow for notification when draft process is put up for promotion

Currently when using draft processes that require approval before becoming promoted, there is little indication that an individual has placed said draft process up for promotion. Right now that promotion is only visible if a person with the approp...
12 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Be able to fill Secure Values with properties and make them visible

There are some step fields asigned as Secure Values, so when we fill them we just see dots and they are seen as * when exporting the process. For example the Download Artifacts for ZOS External Repo, values Repository Password and Artifactory api ...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Delete unused tags

The documentation says that you can't ever delete a tag. Of course this makes sense to not allow a tag to be deleted while still assigned to an agent, app etc. But that they live forever means that the list could be long if we don't implement some...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 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...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Add option to filter out "Not Started" and "Precondition Failed" steps from log

We have deployment processes that support alot of different types of deployment types while the incremental packages being installed dont always containing all of those types. This leads to alot of "Not Started" and "Precondition Failed" steps cro...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Add ddvipa support for ucd z/OS agent

Today ucd agent doesn't have ddvipa support according to TS019560454. For the maintainability it would be good to have possibility to set up z/os ucd agent with ddvipa support. Ddvipa has possibilities to quickly switch over traffic to other agent...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Introduce timeout for process steps

- We recently saw a case where a deployment process was stuck at one particular step for 3+ hours due to some issues. - It's a good idea to introduce a new step property "timeout" that can kill the step that is stuck after the mentioned timeout pe...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review