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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

Support custom Eclipse options in ClearCase help browser spawned by cleartool man or the "online help" option on Windows.

In the current releases, cleartool man on windows spawns CTE... If the host is impacted by Eclipse issue https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.ui/issues/1704 The help pages will not display correctly, possibly losing the table of co...
3 days ago in Heritage / ClearCase 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

Roadmap for supporting Jakarta 10 and JPA 3.x

We need to move to at least Java 17 and have recently upgraded to RAD 10.0 for Java 17 support. We also have applications which use JPA, that will require some modernization to move to JPA 3.x/Jakarta 10; however, we have found that there is no JP...
4 days ago in Heritage / Application Developer 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

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 ...
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 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/
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Embedded 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.
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity Submitted