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Status Delivered
Workspace IMS Enterprise Suite
Categories General ES
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 24, 2015

RELATED IDEAS

Provide tooling to migrate zConnect/IMS Mobile Feature Pack related artifacts from one enviroment to another

Add support for packaging, deploying and/or replicating zConnect and IMS Mobile Feature Pack related artifacts for IMS REST service configuration/implementation to different environments such as DEV,System Integration, Prod Acceptance, Prod and DR.

Currently the support is only available through IMS Explorer for Development tooling by connecting to each liberty instance and configuring manually, which is an error prone process.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 7, 2015

    In addition to the initial request, please consider adding the following to address environment promotion, Test Set Neutrality support, cluster deployment and version control:

    - executable(s) from UNIX environment on host to export and import service related meta data from/to a zConnect instance.

    - allow environment specific configuration file to be separate and editable from the exported service meta data package such as connection profile, interaction profile and trancode to use, may also include service entry in server.xml.

    - Environment specific configuration file together with the exported service meta data package are managed by version control and used by import executable for deploying a service to a different zConnect instance, different test set, or different environment.

    - allow removal/update of a service deployment in addition to create new

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