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PINNED Terminal emulator support on Docker image
Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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Urbancode Deploy needs a plugin for z/API's

It will be very helpful to have a plugin available in Urbancode Deploy for deploying API's to various environments. Currently we deploy using z/OS Connect, API Connect and the Oracle Gateway. The scripts are made by our deployment team. It would ...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

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...

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

Allow remote source when debugging in RDi

Provide the ability for a system definition in RDi to reference another system for source code. A possible implementation would be to associate a debug configuration with a system definition.
over 5 years ago in Heritage / Application Developer 0 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Needs more information

Extra check before deleting important instances

Extra check before deleting important instances PureApplication has the ability to deploy a full blown complex environment across PureApplication Systems.Before deleting an instance the PureApplication user is prompted for a dialog to 'Delete' or ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Not under consideration

Need WMB plug-in for ACE12 to deploy to ACE12 environments via UCD.

We've been using UCD WMB plug-in version 47 to deploy to IIB10 environments. Now we're migrating our interfaces to ACE12. The plug-in doesn't work for ACE12 deployment (attaching log while we're trying to deploy to ACE12 using the current plug-in)...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 8 Functionality already exists

Create documentation for UCD plugins for z/OS

The documentation of the UCD plugins for z/OS is very poor, so we need to create our processes on try-and-error basis. The videos placed on the community are very good but, the plugins should have its own complete documentation, otherwise we are p...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Support token authentication (IDT) when accessing a db when using a connection pool

PCI data security is requiring servers to never expose a password when accessing a db. The industry is moving towards using JWTs (for example, a RACF IDT on z/OS) to meet this requirement. JWT eliminate the need to manage a db password in Liberty ...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review