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IBM MAS - Common Services

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Steps to manually approve/upgrade the operators (with other deployment engine/tools) should be available

Every organization may not use automatic approval plans for the operators. So, steps to manually approve/upgrade the operators (with other deployment engine/tools) should be available. When primary operators are approved manually, then its seconda...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Functionality already exists

Installation procedure should also clearly define the RBAC policies/cluster role bindings /Certificate issuer policies

Similarly, due to segregation of duties, even namespace admins might not have access to all the APIs provided by the operators and to create instances/workspaces. RBAC policies might need to be defined in-order to gain access to the operator APIs ...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Future consideration

Ability to install Operators individually should be provided

Ability to install Operators individually should be provided. As mentioned earlier cluster admin access will not be available for the application team. Application team might have only namespace admin access. So, efine the RBAC policies/cluster ro...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Functionality already exists

Installation procedure should not be restricted to just one deployment engine

Though Ansible is robust automation deployment engine, not every organization might be using Ansible. In our case, we use Kustomize manifest with ArgoCD based deployment. So, installation procedure should not be restricted to just one deployment e...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Future consideration

The installation procedure should be split into tasks which have to be executed by cluster admin and those that can be executed by namespace admins

Major OEMs will have their own cloud solutions/Open Shift platforms. Open Shift cluster will be managed by their infrastructure/engineering team. Application team may not/will not have cluster admin access to the Open Shift cluster, since there wi...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Future consideration

API Call for Manage Pod Status

When restarting the Manage Pods via an API call the process can take a while and there is no API call to understand the status of the pods. If an API call for pod status were available it would take the guesswork out of when to request the start a...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to trigger custom code when application xml changes are saved - Graphite/ReactUI applications

Maximo currently doesn’t make it easy for administrators to trigger actions when changes are submitted for the Graphite/ReactUI applications. Some customers want to trigger custom code when an change is being prepared.They will use these triggers ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 0 Future consideration

Apostrophe support in Email IDs

Lot of people especially from Europe region have Apostrophe in their names and email IDs. MAS does not support it and hence it is a challenge to address this issue especially when SSO is configured.
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 3 Functionality already exists

Support OpenID Connect for federated authentication

For those using Azure Active Directory (AAD) for federated identity and seamless single sign on because of a multi-domain setup, we need to use a more modern authentication protocol than SAML, the OpenID Connect protocol based on OAuth2 is the mos...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 0 Planned for future release

LDAP Auth & LDAP User Registry Sync Setup UI to include HostAlias

LDAP is one of the most common requests our clients ask for setup on, and since MAS only supports LDAPS (meaning you need hostname and certificate) the current setup fields are inadequate to achieve a functional configuration without directly modi...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Planned for future release