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App expanded folder auto cleanup

When applications deployed to a Liberty server are expanded, e.g. <applicationManager autoExpand="true"/> the expanded war and ear files are not deleted when the corresponding application is stopped and removed from the Liberty server.An exp...
about 1 hour ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Agent name integration in UCD Deployment output logs for better debugging

For any deployment log in UCD, if we open the output log, few details are displayed like below under the environment.environment: AGENT_HOME=/opt/urbancode/ibm-ucdagent AH_AUTH_TOKEN=**** AH_WEB_URL=https://ucd-service.lloydsbanking.cloud:8443 AUT...
3 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Submitted

Provide support for WXS connectivity to JDK 17 & JDK 21 application JVMs running on Websphere MoRE

We have our applications running on WebSphere 9.5.5 with java8 connecting to WebSpher eXtreme Scale cache grids seamlessly by dropping java8 wsogclient_8.6.1.6_WXS61457.jar inside WAS product lib/ext directory today. We are trying to modernize our...
4 days ago in WebSphere eXtreme Scale 0 Submitted

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 ...
17 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 0 Submitted

UCD Packaging v2 vs UCD Packaging v1 (Creating sidefiles for Fault Analyzer for Assembler-modules, UCD Package format V2 not working properly)

When running UCD packaging v1 the variable file mentioned above (sidefile) is taken care of properly, gets copied to zOS the correct way and can be used as is. When running UCD packaging v2 the variable file mentioned above (sidefile) is NOT taken...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Submitted

Importing versions from raw nexus repository

We want a feature enhancement for component version import for the Nexus raw type repository. We have been trying to achieve this feature, but it is not working due to product limitations, as we understand from case TS015638587. Currently, the Nex...
29 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 0 Submitted

Add ability to add custom group names to filtering capability

We are very interested in using WebSphere Automation, however, the problem is we have over 500 WAS servers across 63 distinct WebSphere cells. We must have the ability to filter/group servers by a custom group name to be able to segregate servers ...
5 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Submitted

WASPreUpgrade command allowed on the same version

Currently the WASPreUpgrade command is not allowed on the same version, so we must have two different versions installed on the same server or IBM i and run the command from the new version, entering the old version as a parameter. In scenarios of...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits 2 Submitted

Ease the airgap installation by providing a tar file for download

Many of our customers cannot download any containers from icr.io directly due to firewall reasons. There is a documentation how to download the images for airgap, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cta?topic=install-airgap But this still means that e...
8 months ago in Transformation Advisor 1 Submitted

Enable option to build an OpenShift FIPS cluster

Building a FIPS-enabled OpenShift cluster allows for future upgrades to OpenShift Platform Plus, which will position Cloud Pak System as a hybrid cloud platform for Cloud Paks and client-owned workloads. Customers will be able to use OpenShift clu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Submitted