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Run Application Process - Add Description as parameter

Using the generic Run Application Process to trigger a deployment on another application currently has no way to populate the description on the process that is triggered. Even passing through as Request Property will not populate the field. Add a...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2

Keep DevOps Deploy Agent as Display Name for UCD agent service during upgrade

When the V8.1.0.0 UCD agent is installed on a Windows server, the display name of the UCD agent service is "DevOps Deploy Agent". However, when upgrading from a lower version (e.g., from v7.3.1.1 to V8.1.0.0), the display name remains "IBM UCD Age...
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 6 Not under consideration

Upgrade Agent have limitation of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer Agent - which is problematic if customer have 50.000 UCD Agents to upgrade

Upgrade Agent feature have limitation described on documentation as: "Updating many agents simultaneously can have a significant affect the server. As a rule-of-thumb, limit the number of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer." Which is problematic...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

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

Mandatory Version Selection when starting UCD Deployment

While working on the UCD deployments, we have noticed that it is possible to run a deploy process without adding a component version. This is usually done unintentionally. So the idea here is to make the version selection a mandatory process by ei...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Needs more information

Compare component versions with different HLQ

We create component versions with different HLQ depending on jenkins build number and git branch name. This results on component version comparison always showing differences. Every element is on one version but not in the other. Resulting on two ...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3

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...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Under review

Role configuration Server Configuration Manage Security should be more granular

At the moment the entitlement Serveucd-corerity has far too much access. In our team we need new starters to be able to view role configurations, team configurations as part of their training but in general I would expect separate entitlements for...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 7 Not under consideration

Implementing a Zero Downtime Upgrade Mechanism for IBM Services

Currently, IBM’s upgrade process for certain services requires downtime, even in high-availability (HA) setups, due to shared database and filesystem dependencies. This limitation affects critical business operations, leading to potential service ...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Plugin Mongo DB for UCD Deploy

Our application teams would like to have possibility to deploy SQL files to MongoDB database. Plugin should work similar to MSSQL, Sybase, Oracle plugins that already exist in UCD.
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Needs more information