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Search results: DevOps Automation

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...
42 minutes ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

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 ...
3 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

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...
8 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

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...
8 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

DevOps Deploy Plugin - F5 (BigIP)- Need a feature to Enable Health Monitor in F5 and Perform Health Monitor Check

DevOps Deploy Plugin - F5 (BigIP)- Need a feature to Enable Health Monitor in F5 and Perform Health Monitor Check
14 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Output Log UI should allow downloading logs from all servers in the cluster (HA)

In our HA installation of IBM DevOps Deploy (2 front-end nodes + 2 back-end nodes behind load balancers), the UI option Settings → Output Log only displays and downloads deployserver.out from a single node in the cluster. The documentation states ...
about 2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy

Possibility to choice the agent service name on windows

In the previous version of Urbancode Deploy (version 7.2.3), it was possible to choose the agent service name on Windows. Many customers have procedures to start/stop agent services in the automation service (internal name for automation). After...
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

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/
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Embedded Submitted

Session Timeout returned to default after product upgrade

The web.xml config is replaced everytime a new Devops Deploy version is installed. It would be great to have a customized setting on GUI "Server Settings" to manage the Timeout (by default 30 minutes) instead of going to specific configuration fil...
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Needs more information

DevOps Deploy should allow users to manage notification templates from the UI

Currently, someone needs to log on to the server to find the notification templates in order to view/create/edit/delete notification templates. The server also needs to be restarted in order for any changes to take effect. It would be very helpful...
about 2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy