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Need ability to set license timeout

We use FlexLM Floating Licenses for Build Forge. However, Build Forge holds on to a floating license for >24 hours, even when there's no activity from the user. It should be possible to release licenses in a reasonable timeframe, like 2 hours, ...
about 1 month ago in Heritage / Build Forge Submitted

Provide automated method to generate licensing tags when clients are not using the Liberty operator for deployment.

Most of our Liberty deployments are done using custom container build pipelines and Helm based deployments. In order to track licensing we need to tag these deployments with required meta data so the license reporter will correctly compute. One of...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Needs more information

Enable Logging Throttling within Quarkus as a documented option similar to OpenLiberty

This business case argues for the value of implementing excessive logging with throttling as a control mechanism, highlighting the benefits of improved visibility, enhanced security, and optimized resource management, ultimately leading to cost sa...
about 2 months ago in Enterprise Application Service for Java (EASeJ) Submitted

IBM DevOps Deploy – Active/Active (A/A) Database Cleanup Support

1. Current Product Behavior Limits Active/Active Operations IBM DevOps Deploy supports High Availability through clustered application servers sharing a common database and file system. However, in practice, the product’s internal maintenance and ...
about 2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Extend IBM DevOps deploy Vault integration to support multiple vault environments(Specifically Open Source)

IBM DevOps Deploy (UCD )is currently able to integrate with enterprise harshicorp vault instance for secret retrieval during deployment. This integration is functional and in active use for the pipelines. However, our Organization operates on a Op...
about 2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Add support for standard MIBs for SNMPv3

WAS 9 SNMPv3 capability is used for PMI exposure only, market standard MIBs are not used. We request to add support for standard MIBs to be used with external monitorizing tools, like PRTG
about 2 months ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

Expose Deployment genie for API use

We have a significant percentage of our dev teams that use Azure pipelines to launch a DevOps Deploy job, so they never login to the deploy console. We want to let those jobs get the benefit of Genie. If Genie was exposed via API we could add some...
about 2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

certifying the WebSphere Liberty operator into the RedHat Catalog

Requesting new ideas to facilitate the certification of the WebSphere Liberty Operator in the Red Hat Catalog. This certification is important as the operator is essential for enabling the Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) on the OpenShi...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Migration from uDeploy Oracle DB(19c) to Oracle ExaCC

Part of ANZ initiative and roadmap, they decided to migrate all the existing Applications hosted in Oracle to Oracle EXACC. Being one of the consumer of Oracle 19C, DevOps Deploy also included in the scope. Currently, it has been tested in Develop...
about 2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Graceful pause of CICS liberty port to prevent transaction loss

When a CICS liberty port was paused, we found that some API transactions are abended. We understand that when the port was paused, the TCP listener stops accepting NEW connections immediately. The channel destruction happens quickly which means th...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review