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PINNED Terminal emulator support on Docker image
Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

DevOps Automation

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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 ...
4 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Submitted

Allow custom process/request properties to be injected into inProps for any step

Currently in IBM DevOps Deploy, step scripts (such as Groovy steps) can only access properties provided in inProps by the plugin infrastructure. Properties from other scopes (process, request, or previous step outputs) are not available unless the...
6 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 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/
about 2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Embedded 0 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...
about 2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Embedded 0 Submitted

Enhance plugin to use t3 and also t3s as protocols to form the server URL in OSB plugin

it will be useful to deploy over SSL port, not all companies enable non-ssl ports, for security reason and best practices, most communication is done on SSL port itself.
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 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.
about 2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 0 Submitted

A Robust Cleanup Option to Remove Old Versions and Records No Longer Needed to Optimize Storage and Usage

Concern: Over time, the system keeps accumulating old versions and release records that are no longer required. These records are not used for deployments and have no business value anymore, yet they continue to consume storage and system resource...
about 2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 0 Submitted

API Endpoint to Get list of all Component Processes for a given Component

We have a requirement to get all Component Process list for a given Component. Can we have an API endpoint that we can use to get this info? For Example - If a component has 5 processes, then API endpoint should return 5 process names regardless o...
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Code 0 Submitted

Update Jenkins plugin to support Base ClearCase

Update the Jenkins Plugin to support Base ClearCase. We do NOT use UCM since we have designed a frontend to ClearCase that replaces UCM. I'm really shocked that Base ClearCase was not included in the roll out of the Jenkins plugin. It doesn't requ...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Create 0 Submitted

In Container deployments I should be able to set my Java Options from the helm chart values file

Currently java options seem to be set in the statefulset.yaml file (this example is for agents, but the idea is for agents, relays and servers). Currently I see this: - name: JDK_JAVA_OPTIONSvalue: "-Dcom.redhat.fips=false"- name: JAVA_TOOL_OPTION...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Code 0 Submitted