Skip to Main Content
Cloud Platform


This is an IBM Automation portal for Cloud Platform products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.


ADD A NEW IDEA

Deploy

Showing 449

Display logs in ZOS agent started task in EBCIDC or display nothing

Any ASCII or other (unreadable) data that is not EBCIDC should be prevented from ending up in the SDSF(spool). This IBM Idea has been opened to track the work being done by product development to prevent the unreadable / garbage data, related to t...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Introduce timeout for process steps

- We recently saw a case where a deployment process was stuck at one particular step for 3+ hours due to some issues. - It's a good idea to introduce a new step property "timeout" that can kill the step that is stuck after the mentioned timeout pe...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2

Impersonation deployment issue due to wrong onwership on work directory

Impersonation deployments are failing with UCD agent where work directory does not have right ownership permission.When users run the impersonation deployment /work directory is not getting created with the parent directory permissions.For ex: If ...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Change the license type

To avoid UCD outages (what means no deployments anywhere) during license key server downtime even when LKS has HA redundant server configuration (while license servers may be kept by different team and had downtime issues), the UCD licenses should...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Extend "Role Mappings" in the "Map Users and Groups to Roles for Application" step of UCD to support more than 5 arguments.

WAS supports more arguments and UCD chops off anything after 5. This is causing issues in the deployment cycle and is a limitation to our processes. We are fully aware of how the configuration works in WAS Admin console and WAS Admin scripting, bu...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review

SAML SSO

To utilize SAML SSO instead of strictly using Header based SSO. In addition, to have the capability to select different options between Authorization Realm and Authentication.- Allow Authorization from AD and/or LDAP and Authentication from SSO.
about 8 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

New UCD Plugin for using XMLs for executing Test Cases

System: ePricer Description Currently, we became Agile and in order to follow all the DevOps practices, we have successfully implemented UCD for Deployments. We are planning to automate our test cases using Selenium and TestNG for testing automati...
about 8 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

CF CLI8 version support by Cloud Foundry plugin

Currently, we have upgraded from using CF CLI6 to CF CLI8. But the version is not supported by the Cloud Foundry plugin as per https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500Ke000003bt4YIAQ/observing-failure-in-cloud-foundry-plugin-while-using-cf-cli8-bu...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Select only ONLINE agents in agent pools

OFFLINE agents are automatically excluded from selection in agent pools. This provides an important high availability function for pools. Agents in ERROR mode, however are not excluded, which can lead to deployment failure.
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Need an option to block/unblock an agent in uDeploy

Hi Team, We need a feature or an option in UCDeploy to block/unblock an agent from connecting to the UDeploy server. Could you help us with information on this. Regards,Purshi
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration