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Add ISPF statistics to datasets deployed through IDD

Users want to be able to see deploy created/changed timestamps when looking at the dataset member on the target libraries. I think this should be provided by the Deploy Dataset plugin step.
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Delivered

Bring your own AES-256 key for Liberty Secrets

This feature will allow customers to bring their own AES 256 key by providing it as a base64 string in a new property (at the time of writing (wlp.aes.encryption.key)
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

Okta integration for Authentication and Authorization in IBM Urbancode deploy

We need to integrate Okta with IBM Urbancode Deploy for both authentication and authorization. Authentication is working but IBM Urbancode Deploy is listing user id as alpha numeric string instead of the actual user id which is conflicting to map ...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Delivered

Deliver fixes for last three LTS versions by default, not two

Because 24.0.0.6 is still in support at time of writing (2025-12-09), we requested ifixes for this version. However, it would be feasible that the ifixes would be delivered for the last three versions by default, so we would not need to ask for th...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

Ability to Set tomcat.keystore.password During Unattended Installation

My client uses Puppet to automate the installation of DevOps Deploy instances. Currently, after installation, they need to manually update the secured-installed.properties file to modify the tomcat.keystore.password entry. This post-installation s...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Delivered

successfully authenticated through OIDC, but the user doesn't have permission further to view the dashboard of udeploy

upon successfully login to udeploy using OIDC, user can not see the dashboard of udeploy, unless and until, the alpha numerical user ( this will be created by udeploy automatically) has been added to admin role of any team.
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Delivered

UrbanCode Deploy – Support for JIT Provisioning and User Sync with OIDC/SAML

Customer SMBC has implemented UrbanCode Deploy 7.2.3 with OIDC authentication via Microsoft Entra ID.While OIDC authentication works, the current product lacks: Just-In-Time (JIT) user provisioning – automatic creation of user accounts at first lo...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Delivered

AES-256 Encryption support for OpenLiberty in MoRE

AES-256 Encryption, is not supported in MoRE as of now. It’s supported by tWAS and WAS Liberty but not in OpenLiberty. CITI does not use XOR Encryption and cannot disable Encryption. There is a need of AES-256 Encryption and without this CITI cann...
6 months ago in Modernized Runtime Extension for Java Planned for future release

Customizing application installation path similar to tWAS

We deploy applications in tWAS today by specifying application installation path to a custom directory outside of configurations to avoid default installedApps directory which is subject to stricter access control, by specifying a custom path inte...
6 months ago in Modernized Runtime Extension for Java Delivered

Liberty z/OS - SyncToOSThread available for EJBs

We would like to have the SyncToOSThread implemented also to the EJBs. Unfortunally the Liberty code does not look at the EJB deployment descriptors for the env-entry to enable SyncToOSThread, only within the webapp (WAR) deployment descriptors. T...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered