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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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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 ...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization 4 Under review

Implement an approach to define and manage Requirements record Acceptance Criteria for IBM DevOps Plan

An Agile requirement comprises (or SHOULD comprise!) a high-level statement of what the system needs to do, plus one or more related, detailed scenarios that define system Acceptance Criteria for the high-level statement. The AC's provide the requ...
about 2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Plan 2 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...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 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...
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Under review

UCD Packaging v2 vs UCD Packaging v1 (Creating sidefiles for Fault Analyzer for Assembler-modules, UCD Package format V2 not working properly)

When running UCD packaging v1 the variable file mentioned above (sidefile) is taken care of properly, gets copied to zOS the correct way and can be used as is. When running UCD packaging v2 the variable file mentioned above (sidefile) is NOT taken...
10 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

RPT 11.0.4 Agent - Add Oracle Linux as a supported OS

We are running our ‘DevOps Test Performance’(previously RPT) agents on Oracle Linux. We've been told OEL is not a supported OS. At this time, we are able to execute our tests using the agents, but we are unable to monitor their system metrics(CPU,...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Performance 1 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 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

Inquiry on Active Deployments on Agent at Specific Timestamp Checking Parallel Deployments/ Agent to be used

This is our requirement: Can we run/get a report for UCD usage with details for the past 12 months: - **Per day**: Peak number of simultaneous sessions run by all agents in parallel. - **Per day**: Peak number of agents running simultaneous sessio...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

integrate IBM Velocity approval gates with an outside source through a REST API

At our last IBM UCD/Velocity lab advocate meeting, we discovered that there is no way to integrate IBM’s approval gates with an outside source through a REST API (or any other means it sounds like) so that we can plug in the Approval Gateway Tool ...
7 months ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 2 Under review

Application processes only runable in certain environments

Our setup of UCD for Cobol system deployments we have some application processes that only should be run in the PR environment. It is a problem that these processes are available as a choice when deploying to a test environment because the users m...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 9 Under review