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Wazi Deploy

I am not seeing the creation date, change date etc for wazi configuration components, anyone has any idea on how to fix it ?

If you see the first 3 members in above screenshot, we can see size, created, changed dates but members below it are deployed using wazi, those information missing in it.
23 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

Ability to reference package manifest / deployment_plan dictionary in deployment configuration

As of today, the deployment_plan dict can be leveraged in Jinja2 templates. It would be beneficial if Wazi Deploy would allow referencing metadata from package manifest via the deploymant_plan also in the building block configurations - for instan...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

Support merging of overlapping packages in wazideploy-generate

Wazideploy-generate accepts multiple packages and creates a merged package input file for the deployment execution. Today, it does not manage overlapping package well, e.q. Outline: * Pkg A containing a SAMP.JCL deletion * Pkg B containing a SAMP....
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

Generate the default report as part of wazideploy-deploy and the Ansible module

Wazi Deploy comes with predefined reports for a single deployment: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/17.0.x?topic=analysis-predefined-queries-in-product Instead of dedicating an extra step in the pipeline script/configuration for the r...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

Add a link between the artifact and the step result in the evidence file

The step_result field in the evidence file for the MEMBER_COPY, SEQUENTIAL_COPY, MEMBER_ARCHIVE and SEQUENTIAL_ARCHIVE steps currently don’t include a field that represent the element being deployed. It only appears as part of the copy command. We...
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

Introduce Wazi Deploy Config and Work directories

Wazi Deploy currently requires users to define their own strategy to maintain deployment configurations and work directories. I would like to see a simplified approach leveraging standard config and work directories: Maintain a configuration direc...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

Load evidences into a Database

In our environment we deploy to multiple sysplexes. We would like to store the evidence files in a central databse (e.g. DB2)We would like to get an option to load the evidence files into a database so that we can centrally query all deployments. ...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

Restart function in Wazi Deploy

We are looking for smart restart capability in Wazi Deploy. With larger packages, with let’s say 100 DBRMs and corresponding Executables, Wazi Deploy should automatically identify the restart point. Wazideploy-deploy operations could accept the ev...
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

IBM DB2 QMF object update

* QMF Import *** this module is already developed by CIO App Mod*** Import QMF objects, query, procedure, form by using instruction files. QMFFORM: QMFFORM1: type: FORM member: QMFFORM1 name: QMF_FORM_1 QMFPROC: QMFPROC1: type: PROC m...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

update IBM Workload Scheduler applications

* IzWS (OPC) update *** this module is already developed by CIO *** Using BATL files, create/update OPC applications The git repo contains a BATL file for each OPC applications. The module inserts them into a JOB which is using WAPL com...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

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