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OpenTelemetry Tracing support of WOLA

Looking for OTEL to support tracing for WAS to CICS
28 days ago in WebSphere traditional Not under consideration

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 ...
30 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Submitted

Adaptive Connection Pool Throttling based on Latency

In high-load environments, when a backend resource (like a JMS) starts slowing down, the standard behavior of a connection pool is to open more connections to handle the queue, up to the maxPoolSize. This often creates a "death spiral" where the i...
30 days ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Port the DISPLAY,ADAPTER,REGISTRATIONS and DISPLAY,ADAPTER from WAS on Z to Liberty Z

In WAS we are able to display the WOLA registrations between WAS and CICS. Looking to add the same functionality to Liberty on Z . We have automation around this command in WAS, as we move to Liberty , looking to replicate that process in Liberty.
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Under review

Allow to rename WebSphere traditional server-name

The renaming of WAS server-name is not support, the rename in WAS of hostname, Cell and node is supported. A reason that need to rename server name: There are times that there is a mistake in WAS server-name that it was built and a rename of serve...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere traditional Under review

MoRE support for tWAS on z/OS

MoRE support to tWAS to z/OS to help ease the transition to Liberty z/OS.

Allow custom process/request properties to be injected into inProps for any step

Currently in IBM DevOps Deploy, step scripts (such as Groovy steps) can only access properties provided in inProps by the plugin infrastructure. Properties from other scopes (process, request, or previous step outputs) are not available unless the...
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Custom name for cache names

In several client, that they use liberty in their legacy or containerized deployments, when it use cache store with infinispan or others ( database, data grid, etc...) it will be useful the feature to customized the cache name, becasuse will be mo...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

Output Log UI should allow downloading logs from all servers in the cluster (HA)

In our HA installation of IBM DevOps Deploy (2 front-end nodes + 2 back-end nodes behind load balancers), the UI option Settings → Output Log only displays and downloads deployserver.out from a single node in the cluster. The documentation states ...
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy

DevOps Deploy should allow users to manage notification templates from the UI

Currently, someone needs to log on to the server to find the notification templates in order to view/create/edit/delete notification templates. The server also needs to be restarted in order for any changes to take effect. It would be very helpful...
about 2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy