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Support for RHEL 7.7 in HCM

DanielN — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:19:55 GMT

There is a need to add support for RHEL version 7.7 for the whole HCM Suite installation

Pause Subscription on Failure

Bshiri — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:40:39 GMT

Is there an API Call that allows to configure

pause subscritpion on provisionning failure for a given organization ?

Thanks and regards

Details are missing in Notification once the subscription completed

c_bigalbal — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 07:16:35 GMT

Stop emailing notification when upgrade

legendre_a — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 17:17:47 GMT

When we want to upgrade massively subscriptions, its send email to our customer.

We need to stop it because its overflowing our end user.

Hide some public actions from certain groups

legendre_a — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 17:14:45 GMT

Actually csa provides the operator right to show or hide all public action for a services.

So event though we are admin, we have no more right than a consumer role

We need to refine the right to the public action lvl for admin / consumer / operator.

Erase/cancel "Modification failed" on a subscription

Podeternay — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 11:20:18 GMT

Environment : Production
OS : Win 2012R2
Product version : CSA 4.94
DB : MS SQL Server 2014

We launch a lot of modifications on our subscriptions and a lot of them failed (normal 🙂 ).
We would like to cancel this last modifications automatically and we don't want to relaunch it or correct it.
We would like to launch another modification without correct last one and without error message.

=> We would like to cancel the last modification, as you can see on screenshot.

Best regards,

Calculating price at seperate options on MPP

Bigbang_1 — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 09:16:48 GMT

In the existing version of HCM Pricing Module is not detailed enough and also it is not flexible for configuration

In our service we have disks and backup as different options.

Customer can select different disk size,select different backup retention period and backup schedule as well.

We would like to calculate backup price as followings.

Backup retention price * Backup Disk Size * Backup Schedule

Access VM Console through CSA MPP Portal

Bigbang_1 — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:25:51 GMT

CSA provides ability to open remote console to the provisioned servers through Remote Console Service(RCS).

As you know that is connecting servers through RFP,SSH or VNC.

But the Subscribers wants to access directly Vm console.

You can find VM console api guide below.

https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/html-console/html-console-sdk-100-programmer-guide.pdf

Apply different expiration period in offering level

Yaniv Amrami — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 17:01:09 GMT

Hello Team,

We would like the ability to apply different expiration period on different offerings, regardless of the organization consuming the offerings.

Consider the following Scenario - we intent to offer 2 services.

The first one is for Test server. This service should have expiration period of a month due to the nature of the developer work.

The second is for a Build server. This is a production server that must stay online for a year (or even more).

Thank you.

Yaniv

Read-only role in Cloud Service Automation

iivanova — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 20:06:54 GMT

Hello,

Does anyone know if possible and how could be set up a read-only role in CSA.

The full scenario is as following: "Need to use the read-only role with AD groups binding in CSA. This role must have read access to the Administration section of the CSA management console (like the CSA Administrator role) and not have permission to change the configuration."

If there are ideas how this could be done, please share.

Thanks!

Assignment of different roles for a user with several catalogs

acarrillo — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 17:49:14 GMT

End customer is requesting to have service catalogs assigned to a user (or user group) and needs to have a different role for every catalog.

Ex: "administrator" role for services in catalog A and only "operator" role for services in catalog B.

The goal is provide subcription creation permissions for some type of subscriptions and "view only" permissions for other types of subscription (created by other users)

Provide a search tool for offerings corresponding to certain option values

MMO1 — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:20:52 GMT

Provide a search tool for offerings meeting several conditions:

Option_Name comparison_operator Option_value

(request example: OS like "RedHat%" and Environment = "PROD" and Disk_Size = 250

Just for fun.... senseless CSA dashboard mashup widget

Ong Dam may — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:48:37 GMT

<button onclick="spinMe()">Spin Tiles!</button>

Amazon Security Group information in MPP

MarkusKnoefel — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 07:02:45 GMT

Given that you are a user who want to order a machine at Amazon. You can choose your desired service and then you will be asked what security group you need. All you can see is the number of the security group but you cannot see the definition. There should be a way to display the definition of the security group in the MPP. The information are available at Amazon and they have an API for that but I think we don’t use it.

This is relevant also when you already ordered a machine and you cannot connect to it. We do not have the possibility to see any network related information. It seems that Flexera can do that.

Obviously, the security groups are only one example of many information available at the cloud provider. The reason behind that is, that users can order machines at HCM and do not require any login to the cloud provider. That means that we have to deliver these information.

Service Designer integration with Git

Lucian-Revnic — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 17:16:42 GMT

Integration with Git will allow users to better manage the service designs development process through Git/Git Hub integration

This integration with Git can be extended to Resource Offerings or Providers.

As implementation we can follow similar approach like the workflow designer embedded in HCM

HCM plugin for Jenkins to make API Calls just like HCM CLI

Rakeshh — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 06:40:23 GMT

Nowadays Jenkins is used extensibly by many users to automate the tasks.

We have received a requirement from the HCM Users if we can have the Jenkins Plugin for HCM API calls just like HCM CLI to manage the Subscriptions and lifecycle actions.

This Jenkins plugin will enable many users to adapt to the automation actions around HCM quickly with so much of ease.

Parallel Public actions in Customer portal (MPP)

Rakeshh — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:45:42 GMT

Currently if a subscriptions has 3 or more VMs and user want to run an action to take snapshot of all the VMs same time, He cannot do it due to the limitation that action will run only on one VM and it will wait for this action to finish. Then only action on other VM can be started.

This behavior takes lo to of time for end user.

If user wants to do change CPU on one VM and change RAM on another VM of same subscription, he can't do it.

So the requirement is that HCM must provide the ability to execute the parallel public actions on multiple VMs within the subscription.

HCM CLI to support Public Actions

Rakeshh — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 08:51:07 GMT

Many HCM users would like to use the HCM CLI Tool to automate the deployment and lifecycle management of subscriptions.

Currently, public actions like change CPU/RAM, Extend Disk, Create Snapshot etc. cannot be performed through it and it is blocker since most of the automation tasks are public actions.

It will be fantastic if Public Actions can also be executed through HCM CLI.

HCM out of box content for IBM Cloud, Apache Cloudstack and Nutanix

Nick Ebert — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:48:09 GMT

We are getting more and more demand for Out of the box HCM content for the following Resource Providers:

* Apache Cloudstack
* Nutanix
* IBM cloud

Currently we can only provide custom build workflows via REST API it seems.

I think we can significantly reduce time to market for our customer base using above Resource Providers. Hence I would like to propose to generate OOTB content for these platforms.

HCM and OO SAP Provisioning Content: Support latest version of S/4HANA

RobertKreher — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:11:11 GMT

As per HCM and OO SAP Provisioning Content Release Notes, the content only supports S/4Hana deployments only up to version 1610. The latest versions out are 1709 and 1809 and must be supported as well. 1909 will be released in September 2019 and should then be supported as well.

Customers who want to install S/4HANA will always use the latest version because of enhancements and cumulative bug fixes from previous releases

Enhance SAP Provisioning HCM Capsule to deploy SAP Systems in AWS instances

Lucian-Revnic — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:59:14 GMT

Current HCM SAP Provisioning Capsule contains content to deploy SAP Systems, HANA, S/4 HANA on VMware vCenter Virtual Machines.

Users would like enhancements to the existing capsule with examples of deploying SAP Systems on AWS.

https://marketplace.microfocus.com/itom/content/capsule-sap-provisioning

an api for gettin offering's approval policy

rozartack — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 07:25:17 GMT

we should have an apy for getting the precise approval policy of a offering .. because in the catalog there are many approval ,that we can choose when we publish an offering.

If we want to know from an api wich one is the api that have been choosen for the offering we can't do this now.

Change the way as the error is displayed in the LOGIN page

Teresa_Carmo1 — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 18:36:13 GMT

Nowadays, when there is a fail in the LOGIN, CSA portal displays the error message based on JAVA Scripts and our monitoring tool cannot read the message inside of the used control. We would like to know if there is the possibility of creating a text error page for such kind of errors.

Content for HCM that is using Micro Focus DCAX for Compliance & Patching

Lucian-Revnic — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 19:18:40 GMT

HCM users would like to be provision instances and resources with HCM and then run security compliance scans and remediation on the provisioned resources using Micro Focus Data Center Automation X

Refactor DMA Premium Capsules to use CSA CI Type Based Palette

Lucian-Revnic — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 19:08:53 GMT

Current DMA Premium Capsules are using a different CSA Palette than the CI Type Based palette.

Users would like to have DMA Premium Capsules to use the CSA CI Type Based Palette .

Migrate workloads from VMware to Amazon AWS or GCP using PlateSpin

Lucian-Revnic — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:34:19 GMT

Current OO content for PlateSpin Migrate allows migration from VMware vCenter to Microsoft Azure only.

Users would like to use HCM and OO to migrate VMs from VMware vCenters to Amazon AWS or Google Compute Engine.

Launch the command java -jar db-purge-tool.jar -c config.properties -j ojdbc7.jar in silent mode

alessandra_ferrari2 — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 07:58:03 GMT

My collegues and I are currently use CSA 4.92 on Windows 2012 R2. The database is Oracle 12c on SLES.

We'd like to launch the command java -jar db-purge-tool.jar -c config.properties -j ojdbc7.jar in silent mode. Now we are asked for the admin password.

Thanks,

Alessandra Ferrari

MariaAlessandra.Ferrari@external.eni.com

Filters in MPP portal to search by subscription fields

figuerla — Mon, 27 May 2019 11:00:34 GMT

The customer asks us for an improvement on the product, which consists in making searches on the MPP portal more extensive. That there are filters, for example, to search by fields of the subscription or the uCMDB.

Oracle 19c support in HCM/CSA

Lucian-Revnic — Fri, 24 May 2019 19:51:10 GMT

As Oracle 19c is a long time support version of Oracle Database Server users will upgrade to it soon.

HCM/CSA should provide official support for Oracle 19c to meet user goals.

Add Client Token to Public Action

legendre_a — Fri, 24 May 2019 09:12:39 GMT

In public actions, the CLIENT tokens are not available for the dynamic JSP input. They are only part of the subscriber option.

We need to create link between input/output of public action fields.

Official support of Oracle 18 C database for CSA.

kostinarium — Tue, 07 May 2019 12:11:44 GMT

Oracle version 18c is in fact Oracle 12.2.0.1.16. And it's not officially supported.

CSA4.70 and above - Support for MSSQL2014 SPs and above

CVPL-JL — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:53:01 GMT

Request for MSSQL support on the below:

1. CSA4.70 to include support for MSSQL 2014 with SPs.
2. CSA4.70 to include support for MSSQL 2016 with SPs and above.
3. CSA4.94 to include support for MSSQL 2014 with SPs and above.

Get Provider Properties and Resource Offering Properties in OO

RedTail72 — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:10:09 GMT

When you make a breaking change to an OO flow that is already mapped to CSA and attempt to add that flow/action to another lifecylce step, you will get an "OO flow is out of sync with current actions" error. The fix involves deleting the existing actions, but this can be difficult when the action is mapped to several components. It would be nice to provide a way to show all of the flow mappings in CSA for a given OO flow to make resolving this issue easier. I have a database query to list everything, but that is not convenient for most users.

Content Store - Add an option in the UI to accept install of capsules that are not digitally signed

Lucian-Revnic — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 07:52:16 GMT

By default HCM/CSA Content Store doesn't allow installing capsules that aren't digitally signed. This is a good from security side but from usability perspective this is an issue as users don't always digitally sign their capsules. For example many community contributed capsules on ITOM Marketplace are not digitally signed.

A good ux improvement would be to display an warking/error when a capsule is not signed, user to acknowledge and to be able to proceed based on his risk assesment.

Ability to publish an Offering to multiple catalogs at the same time.

Devanshi — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:48:38 GMT

Ability to publish an Offering to multiple catalogs at the same time and without having to go back through the Publishing dialog.

Currently, to publish any offering to a catalog, we go to the Publishing dailog. There only 1 catalog can be selected at a time. We think if the ability is provided to select multiple catalogs and then choosing a category and Approval policy for all of them, it would help cut down the time and hassle to select 1 catalog at a time and publish individually.

Enhanced User Operations for OOTB AWS Capsule / Brokered Services

Gael Grisnaux — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:23:47 GMT

It would be nice to go deeper than only Stop / Start / Restart for OOTB User Operations associated to OOTB AWS designs and brokered services.

The idea would be to have all the operations one could do on a VM on AWS directly OOTB for all designs.

Some examples ...

Disk Management : Add / Modify / Remove / Extend

Snapshot : Take / Delete / Revert

NIC : Add / Modify / Remove

Full CPU / Memory Management

VM : Clone / Rename / Migrate

Alarm : Add / Modify / Remove

Inventory Management.

All the actions are already in a CP or retrievable in an API swagger. They should be OOTB in all AWS designs for all VMs. One could still hide the actions that is not required, but as a single point of consumption for legacy / cloud / paas, HCM should at least provide all actions one could do in AWS portal.

Enhanced User Operations for OOTB Azure Capsule / Brokered Services

Gael Grisnaux — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:17:25 GMT

It would be nice to go deeper than only Stop / Start / Restart for OOTB User Operations associated to OOTB Azure designs and brokered services.

The idea would be to have all the operations one could do on a VM on Azure directly OOTB for all designs.

Azure Compute

The Azure Compute APIs give you programmatic access to virtual machines and their supporting resources. For a more detailed overview, see the Virtual Machines product page.

REST Operation Groups

Operation Group	Description
Availability Sets	Provides operations to create and manage availability sets.
Extensions	Provides operations to add and manage to virtual machine extensions.
Managed Disks	Provides operations to create and manage managed disks, managed snapshots, and managed images.
Platform Images	Provides operations access the platform images available in Azure.
Usage	Provides operations to get to usage information of your resources.
Virtual Machines	Provides operations to create and manage virtual machines.
Virtual Machine Scale Sets	Provides operations to create and manage virtual machine scale sets.

Some examples ...

Disk Management : Add / Modify / Remove / Extend

Snapshot : Take / Delete / Revert

NIC : Add / Modify / Remove

Full CPU / Memory Management

VM : Clone / Rename / Migrate

Alarm : Add / Modify / Remove

Inventory Management.

All the actions are already in a CP or retrievable in an API swagger. They should be OOTB in all Azure designs for all VMs. One could still hide the actions that is not required, but as a single point of consumption for legacy / cloud / paas, HCM should at least provide all actions one could do in Azure portal.

Enhanced User Operations for OOTB vCenter Capsule

Gael Grisnaux — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:04:38 GMT

It would be nice to go deeper than only Stop / Start / Restart for OOTB User Operations associated to OOTB vCenter designs.

The idea would be to have all the operations one could do on a VM on vCenter directly OOTB for all designs.

Disk Management : Add / Modify / Remove / Extend

Snapshot : Take / Delete / Revert

NIC : Add / Modify / Remove

Full CPU / Memory Management

VM : Clone / Rename / Migrate / Convert to Template / Deploy from Template / Install VMWare Tools.

Alarm : Add / Modify / Remove

Inventory Management.

All the actions are already in a CP. They should be OOTB in all vCenter designs for all VMs. One could still hide the actions that is not required, but as a single point of consumption for legacy / cloud / paas, HCM should at least provide all actions one could do in a vCenter.

Additional Network interface for server backup

Pravin Mohan — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:35:12 GMT

Additional Network interface for server backup during instance provisioning through MPP portal. Service design should get the user inputs for the network inteface and user can choose how many interworks needed for the server.

Additional Volume creation for subscriptions on MPP portal

Pravin Mohan — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:30:58 GMT

Ability to create additional volume for existing subscriptions, snapshot, resize and other administration tasks on MPP portal.

Network port is not deleted in openstack environment during server decommissioning

Pravin Mohan — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:27:49 GMT

Network port is not deleted along with server decommissionig on openstack integrated HCM.

Showback for docker environment

Pravin Mohan — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:25:54 GMT

Governance for IT showback of docker pods(services/workloads) provisionined through MPP portal.

Managing the Docker environment from MPP portal

Pravin Mohan — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:24:13 GMT

Ability to manage the Docker environment through MPP protal

User input for the hostnames on offerings

Pravin Mohan — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:20:16 GMT

Custome input for the hostname rather than automatic hostname assingment with UUID, hostname is limited to 15 characters for domain registration.

Multiple volume creation based on user input during server provisioning

Pravin Mohan — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:15:29 GMT

During Server provisioning additional volumes needs to be attached with the server. Currently 1 volume is taken as input; but the users generally configure with multiple volumes.

Listing of more than 25 images on offering creation

Pravin Mohan — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:13:20 GMT

Listing of more than 25 images on offering creation in mpp portal.

Ability to specify the override RAS for the OO flows running from HCM

Lucian-Revnic — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 18:46:58 GMT

OO has the override JRAS/NRAS capablity that enables user to specify dinamically in which location/RAS Group/DMZ etc a flow should be executed

https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/Operations_Orchestration:10.70/Use/Authoring_With_OO_Studio/Configure_GroupAliases

If a certain flow is executed from HCM user need to do special authoring work to have this capability.

HCM platform should provide the capability for the administrator to specificy an overrideRAS value that will be passed the OO flows

override CSA asynchonous provisioning of multiple servers

jgrummons — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:32:57 GMT

CSA needs an option to change the default behavior of all server builds in a server group being launched asynchronously. This really causes contention with accessing shared resources like IP Address Management, etc. The only way to work around this issue currently is to use semiphores which have their own issues.

There really should be a way to make server builds queue up in CSA and build serially. The server group components are processed serially, so it makes sense to give the option of having the server components build serially too.

It would also be nice if there was some sort of internal CSA property (i.e. SVC_Component_Instance) that corresponds to server build order so that if you need to process an operation on only the first server, or only the last server there was a way to track programatically which server number is currently being built.

OOTB OO flow to remove service component from subcription

jgrummons — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 10:17:49 GMT

the CSA Integration content back has a flow for adding a service component to a subscription (i.e. another server to a multi-vm subscription) but it does not have a flow for removing a service component from a subscription. users currently have to build this functionality manually using rest api.

It would be useful to have this feature for removing servers from a multi-vm subscription as part a user-operation.

Scale Component should let user choose which VMs to remove

jgrummons — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:04:10 GMT

CSA/HCM scale component currently only cares about final count of servers. That works great for scale out feature, but does not give user choice of which VMs to remove when scale in operation is performed. A lot of the time, users would want to choose which servers to remove so that you can better control how they are decommissioned. For example, users may need to drain specific server(s) before removing them from a loadbalancer, which would mean they need to be specific with which servers get destroyed.

Another approach to this challenge would be to create an OOTB user operation for remove server component that could be run individually on a per server basis. This would already know which service component to remove since it would appear as one of the user operations for a given server. And it could behavie similarly to the scale component in that it automatically follows the deprovision lifecycle flows.

Offer Azure/AWS consumption report for customer in Marketplace

Fabian_K — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 13:42:43 GMT

At the moment Showback Reporting is only available in CSA administration. Our customers should be able to view their personal Azure/AWS cloud consumption in the Marketplace portal.

Support Showback Reports for Azure cloud consumption on subscription level

Fabian_K — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 13:37:27 GMT

Integrating Showback Reporting is only possible on tenant basis. Due to company internal restrictions we don't have access to the tenant information. Therefore we need the possiblity to integrate Showback Reports on subscription level.

Support for federated authentication in HCM to AWS integrations

Lucian-Revnic — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 14:24:39 GMT

Current HCM to AWS authentication is based on AWS Acces Key and Secret Access Key authentication

AWS users may use federated authentiation to authenticate to AWS using their private Active Directory credentials.

Next, as a modern HCM platform HCM/CSA shiuld support federated authentication as well when integrating with AWS and other cloud providers

CSA UI - group ownership always on

p.kovalenko — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 11:43:43 GMT

Our customer has got a principle - each subscription should have an onwer group. But, sometimes user forget to choose this group.

My suggestion is to add configuration parameter 'groupOwnershipIsAlwaysRequired', or something like that. If it is true, every time user orders a subscription, the 'group ownership' flag is always on. He could, if he want, unselect group ownership and order susbcription without group - but, by default, he should choose owner group.

This configuration parameter may be global parameter, or on organization-level parameter, or in catalog-level parameter - all options will be helpful.

To be clear, I attach some screenshots 'what is now', and 'what we want'.

Default Subscription expiry control from Offering level apart from existing Organization level

SivakumarAV — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 11:02:16 GMT

Problem :

There are multiple teams from a Organization consuming HCM and definetly having a common expiry date across all the offerings within the organization will not be practically working for a Enterprise customer.

Requirement :

HCM needs to enable an option to over-ride the Default Subscription Expiry date from the offering level , if a value is set else not, pick the expiry values set in the Organization level

Use Case Example:

Some Offerings needs to be restricted to just 1 week max subscription period due to more resource consumption. And some offerings needs to be restricted to max 1 year. And if we set 1 week max subscription period with current functionality , end-user with the need for 1 year subscription will need to go through extention process for subcription. So, we need to have micro level control via Offerings created to over-ride this system-wide settings.

So, System Wide Settings can be left with 1 year max period and offering level control will allow to user to restrict the max period to lower number of days.

Export OO Content Pack when exporting Resource Offerings from CSA/HCM

Lucian-Revnic — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 15:41:15 GMT

Current export of Resource Offerings,Service Designs, Service Offerings from CSA/HCM the OO Content Packs references from Resouce Offering are not exported.

Next when user exports Resource Offerings, Designs etc should contain an option to export the Content Packs and include them in the exported zip.

Oracle Cloud Capsule

Lucian-Revnic — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:36:27 GMT

Users would need an out of the box capsule to provision resources (compute, network, storage) in the Oracle Cloud

Create Capsule from UI

Lucian-Revnic — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:11:29 GMT

HCM/CSA has the ability to create capsules (the atomic unit for content promotion across different environments) from Capsules SDK only that is a CLI tool available here:

https://marketplace.microfocus.com/itom/content/csa-content-sdk

To increase the efficiency for the authors we should have in HCM UI the option to Create Capsule and the option to Export Capsule. This will enable users to package the service designs, resource offerings, palletes etc. in one capsule zip file, with a version, and use it for promoting content across environments (DEV/TEST/PROD).

VMware vCenter 6.7 Update 2 support in VMware Capsule

Lucian-Revnic — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 08:33:11 GMT

Users would like to have support for VMware vCenter 6.7 Update 2 in the out of the box VMware Capsule

Customize flow run names for OO flows triggered from HCM/CSA

Lucian-Revnic — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 08:30:02 GMT

Users would like to customize OO workflows run names when workflows are triggered from CSA/HCM.

This will enable to identify easier the flows that are linked to as specific design, resource offering, organization etc.

Idealy there should be a text box in the UI where users can define a prefix like:

Object storage browser for S3 compatible storage engines

HKING — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:30:25 GMT

A cloud management platform (CMP) like Micro Focus HCM also has to integrate object storage services provided in:

public cloud (e.g. AWS S3, Azure Blobs, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), OpenStack S3/Swift)
private cloud (e.g. OpenStack S3/Swift)

solutions. To allow HCM users to navigate their object storage content graphically - within the CMP portal - an object storage browser is needed compared to what AWS S3, Azure Blobs, GCS or OpenStack S3/Swift already offer.

Therefore, we highly recommend to implement an object storage browser in your solution so the following actions can be executed graphically - directly within the CMP:

creation of a new bucket (region select; bucket name; storage class: STANDARD, WARM, COLD; bucket policy: PRIVATE, PUBLIC READ, PUBLIC READ AND WRITE)
showing the detailed information of created buckets (bucket name; bucket version; space used; owner ID; creation timestamp; access domain name; storage class: STANDARD, WARM, COLD; region; # of objects in the bucket)
upload of a new file (file selection; selection of storage class: STANDARD, WARM, COLD)
creation of a folder (folder name)
executing the following day-2 operations on uploaded objects:
1. change storage class (STANDARD, WARM, COLD)
2. delete
3. download
4. restore (only visible + activated when storage class is COLD)
changing permissions:

add new accounts with READ and/or WRITE access to the bucket
add new accounts with READ and/or WRITE access to the ACL
change existing OWNER permissions for READ and/or WRITE access to the bucket
change existing OWNER permissions for READ and/or WRITE access to the ACL
change existing GROUP "anonymous user" permissions for READ and/or WRITE access to the bucket
change existing GROUP "anonymous user" permissions for READ and/or WRITE access to the ACL
change existing GROUP "registered user" permissions for READ and/or WRITE access to the bucket
change existing GROUP "registered user" permissions for READ and/or WRITE access to the ACL

A good example for an object storage browser shows the following screenshot:

Object storage browserObject storage browser permission settings

Clone pattern is taking huge amount of time

FrankS — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:39:24 GMT

Brief Description:
Clone pattern is taking huge amount of time
Benefits / Value:
When we use clone pattern in designer pallette with higher number of components (even 3-5 components), execution time taken is higher than expected and grows rapidly with increase in number of clones.
Decrease in execution time

Turn Off Group notification for Groupsubscription on Org Level

FrankS — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:16:23 GMT

Brief Description:
Turn Off Group notification for Groupsubscription on Org Level
Benefits / Value:
It would like to see the option to turn it of on a per Organization level at least. Optionall it would be good to turn of at Grouplevel... although this seems to be micro manageing and probably will be rarely used.
Design details:
On the organization pane in the CSA management console there should be an option to "group subscription notification to group" when this is checked only notifications to all members in the group are send If not it should send only to requestor

MPP UI - Dynamic filtering in a drop-down menus

mcarrone — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:14:05 GMT

Would be nice to have a dynamic filtering of items in drop-down menus created with subrscriber options.

Useful when using JS to generate list and many options are displayed. To have a writable field selecting items while typing.

Button to suppress subsequent Pause Notifications for subscribers

FrankS — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:35:18 GMT

Brief Description:
Button to suppress subsequent Pause Notifications for subscribers
Benefits / Value:
PAUSED_SUBSCRIBER.html This notification is sent to the customer every time a subscription fails. They would like to have an option where could suppress subsequent Pause Notifications for subscribers. For instance, in the way that the customer would receive only once this notification and not every time it fails.

Design details:
Required Have a button or checkbox

Attach documents option for Modify Subscription request

FrankS — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:19:09 GMT

Brief Description:
Attach documents option for Modify Subscription request
Benefits / Value:
hen modifying a subscription. requestor must be able to attach documents also to modify subscription requests.

Design details:
We have situation where input docs must be updated (e.g. customer has a changed HLD to a requested server he wants to attach the reference to the subscription so that the reason for the change is documented in the request)

Handover hidden Properties to External Pricing API

FrankS — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:06:31 GMT

Brief Description:
Handover hidden Properties to External Pricing API
Benefits / Value:
The interface of EPS must be extended to hand over hidden properties to the EPS (External Price System)to allow full calculation also based on hidden values. Scenario in next to every option we have hidden element that define the technical values that are driven by the selection of this option. those technical values are critical for the calculation of the price. we also use hidden properties for additional tagging of information about an option which drives price calculation.

Change Healthtool to report memory usage based on GarbageCollection

FrankS — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:01:02 GMT

Brief Description:
Change Healthtool to report memory usage based on GarbageCollection
Benefits / Value:
Health tool changed to report memory usage based on last full GC run (PS MarkSweep as an example) Currently health tool does use the current Heap memory allocation as information. This does not say that much about the real memory usage as heap continously is filled up and freed by GC
Design details:
modified health tool to report on GC run data

Second ldap server for organization configuration

FrankS — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:40:11 GMT

Brief Description:
Second ldap server for organization configuration
Benefits / Value:
LDAP configuration for CSA organizations must allow specification of an secondary LDAP server. Currently CSA can not be configured to an high available LDAP when LDAP is not loadbalanced or the HA for LDAP is handled via DNS methodes. in such scnearios CSA is effectively unavailable when the LDAP is not available Design details: A secondary or List of LDAP servers should be provided to allow the specification of an HA node for LDAP. In case of primary LDAP failure CSA needs to retry secondary LDAP

Question-Reading component properties from dynamic list js

FrankS — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:35:08 GMT

Brief Description:
Question-Reading component properties from dynamic list js
Benefits / Value:
We got a querry regarding the use of JavaScript vs JSP for dynamic lists in CSA. While I know its maybe not a pure support querry,in case some of you has tested different scenarios, any inputs would be appreciated. We are preparing migration to js instead of jsp for dynamic lists. In past we using CSAIntegrationDelegate to work with csa api to retrieve properties from components for jsp Example: <%@page import="com.hp.csa.web.util.CSAIntegrationDelegate"%> CSAIntegrationDelegate.executeCSAREST("csa/rest/artifact/"+SVC_INSTANCE_ID+"?userIdentifier=90d96588360da0c701360da0f1d600a1") Which allowed us pretty secure way to address csa api from jsp. However for js there are only certain classes allowed and none of them offers functionality of CSAIntegrationDelegate class. Can you please advise what is recommended way to access csa.api from js. Preferred solution should fit following requirements: 1) No csa host/hosts entering to scripts / additional configs (similar to our previous solution). 2) No credentials in script if possible. We use the current solution for js is using HTTPClient.call class but that does violate both of requirements. If there is no solution available, it is possible to get CSAIntegrationDelegate to /rhino/extensions/ similar to CSAIntegrationHelper.class? We have researched the subject, it seems that's the way JS works, so we are not sure we have alternative to the HttpURLConnection class in java
Design details:
Explain how would you like this idea designed / implemented

Provide a way to reconcile/rebuild indexes for elastic search

FrankS — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:33:46 GMT

Brief Description:
Provide a way to reconcile/rebuild indexes for elastic search
Benefits / Value:
CSA must provide a way to rebuild or reconcile the index in elastic search. We had multiple issues with Search Service which resulted in situations where subscriptions or offerings that have been changed or deleted doesnt get updated in elastic search anymore Scenario ES or MSVC down or not working correctly Workaround Delete index and reset posted in ES status Unacceptable Takes long time to rebuild index and potentially not 100% supported Design details: Best would be that CSA keeps a queue of changes to pushed to ES to keep track of any updates that need to still go to ES. Aditionally a Resync button should allow an admin to trigger CSA to validate Index vs. Real world scenario and additionaly a Hard rebuild index Button should be introduces to allow a rebuild if nothing else works.

Provide a way to pass OldValues like 'token' in dynamic lists using JS

FrankS — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:26:35 GMT

Brief Description:
Provide a way to pass OldValues like 'token' in dynamic lists using JS
Benefits / Value:
We would like to have a more elegant way of passing the old values from a dynamic list created in JS , when modifying subscription. Scenario: When you need to offer a set of versions which should be newer than the version selected before Current Workaround Complicated way of writing old selected value onto a component property and then traversing the Service instancetree via API within JSP. (does not work for JS easily) Unacceptable You can not offer a dynamic list based on the old value that has been selected Design details: Best is probably an old value token that gets passed into the js, or another design decision, but it should be possible to easier create dynamic lists based on old value.

Ability to identify from the subscription status if it was cancelled from a Paused state

FrankS — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:21:53 GMT

Brief Description:
Ability to identify from the subscription status if it was cancelled from a Paused state or form an active state
Benefits / Value:
we using a list of failed and successful subscriptions using -xpath query //ServiceRequest/requestStatus/name. Currently in CSA,when cancel is kicked off, the CancelSubscriptionActionDelegateImpl.executeAction is called. In this method, before submitting the request to fulfillment layer, we set the service request status like this: serviceRequestService.setServiceRequestStateAndStatus(requestVO.getId(), RequestStateEnum.COMPLETED, RequestStatusEnum.SUCCESS); basically the requestStatus depends on the callback which would envoke either CancelSubscriptionActionDelegateImpl.onCancelFailure or .onCancelSuccess in the first case we set the RequestStatus : updateRequestStatus(lastServiceRequest, RequestStateEnum.COMPLETED, RequestStatusEnum.FAILURE) and if succesful updateRequestStatus(lastServiceRequest, RequestStateEnum.COMPLETED, RequestStatusEnum.SUCCESS); so the presumption is that if the cancel is succesful , as in your case then that variable would be set to succes , otherwise if the cancel fails, only then the requestStatus should be Failure. We would like a more 'fine grained' status of the cancelled subscription statuses : Design details: It should be possible to identify whether an initial order request for a subscription failed and was never successful. As soon as the Initial order request was successful and the Service is available the status should be "SUCCESS" (I think that's how it is at the moment) When a failed subscription couldn't be resumed successfully and then canceled the status should be "FAILURE" and not "Success" as it is at the moment (the operator cancels the failed subscription manually and the status they get is 'success').

Hide/disable Options in a subscriber optionset based on selected options

FrankS — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:03:43 GMT

Brief Description:
Hide/disable Options in a subscriber optionset based on selected options
Benefits / Value:
One scenario where this would be required: 3rd party solution does support different sizes of virtual machines. the selected size defines the amount of possible additional disks In theory it would be possible to structure the additional disks below the size selector but this would quickly exceed the nesting level of CSA and also decrease performance as it would dramatically exponentially grow the amount of options Workaround nesting and duplicating option-sets but this only helps in a few cases and does have severe performance impact Unacceptable They cant provide satisfying UI for the use cases to their customers Design details: What they are envisioning is a reference selection similar to the property source binding process for enabled and customer visibility property of Option Sets, Options and also properties within an Option. This must allow selection of multiple different Options to be selected as linked elements. By default the result evaluation should apply a logical OR . It should be possible to define a custom logic rule. e.g. ((option 1 AND(xoption2 OR xoption3 OR xoption4)) OR Option 2) it also should be possible to select Boolean properties as another input criteria into the evaluation.

Cluster guide update

FrankS — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 07:39:57 GMT

Brief Description:
Cluster guide update
Benefits / Value:

More detail information how to fix this issue:
[default task-26] DEBUG com.hp.ccue.identity.domain.JwtToken - Invalid signature before spotting the error,we checked our Documentation : checked the CSa cluster configuration guide loadbalancer -> in the install section no hint that this must be the same (even that you need to install all with the same user pws) checked the CSA cluster configuration guide apache webserver -> in the install section no hint that this must be the same (even that you need to install all with the same user pws) I know that there are statements , that if not stated in the guide, the configuration should be the same across nodes, but that leaves some ambiguity for somebody just coming into the product. A more detailed explanation and examples would help customer tremendously for such unclear things, and would save them time and money.

Limit end user options to resubmit modify/cancelation phase

FrankS — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 07:11:34 GMT

Brief Description:
Limit end user options to resubmit modify/cancelation phase
Benefits / Value:
Remove option for customer to resubmit modify/cancelation. Events should behave similar as those in deploying phase. If set on pause. When flow is set to pause operators should have option to resume it. When set to error operators should have option to resubmit it. Additionally there is problem with cancelation. When resubmitted it will not execute last failed event but continue from next one that means actions from failed flow will never have a chance to succeed. Design details: We are facing with constant issues and customer pressures because of logic how modify and cancelation phases are handled. Current situation: When event fail in both of those phases and flows are set to fail on error, subscription will stop on customer side with action to resubmit cancelation or modification. So our ops will eventually fix what was wrong with background infrastructure but then they need to bother customer with resubmit modify or cancelation. This is logically wrong from our perspective because customer cannot fix anything himself and that means he is not driver for resubmit those actions to try again. Additionally it can happen that customer will resubmit modification for example without notify from us. And when operation did not cleanup and fixed all already flows will be triggered again aiming to failure and creating more mess and work for operations.

Support for multi-tenancy / granular permissions on Management Portal

FrankS — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:16:22 GMT

Brief Description:
Support for multi-tenancy / granular permissions on Management Portal
Benefits / Value:
1 (Prio). We need to have granular permissioning of content in the management Portal we would like to set Access Control to Service Designs, Service Offerings, resource Offerings as well as Providers. We are working with multiple Projects and internal organizations on the same CSA instance That makes it extremely hard to separate the content of different Project groups and ensure that no one changes/deletes the content of a different Project. Suggestion is to start by separate in the Provider Org into Master ADmins ->can access content of all And Project Groups -> All content of members of the Project group is shared/changeable within the Groups Certain Content like ResourceOfferings must be made "Public" -> this means they can be used by every Group in Service Designs but only changed by Owner Group 2 (Prio) allow multitenancy at Management portal. or transport Service Design function to Tenant MPPs Keep the concept of Provider Organization but allow customer Organizations to build own Designs and Offerings (extend the Customer Organization Admin concept) This must ensure that Tenant Organization can only see/use REsource Offerings that the provider Org has given (shared) with the Tenant Organizations. Service Designs and offerings that are not shared with Tenant Organization for editing must not be changeable by tenant. This does not apply to the Service Provider Organization creating and Publishing Offerings to a tenant. Scenario we as service provider are working with a lot of teams on CSA. different teams produce different modules. we need to work on same instance as this allow sharing better and save resources. as well as we need to test against same interfacing systems. we can not develop on isolated systems For the second Prio topic we have customers that would like to build theire own Application Designs using our Resource Offerings we provided as Service Provider on the same platform where we deliver our services to the customer

Notifications to operators on failures in undeployment phase

FrankS — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:07:22 GMT

Brief Description:
Notifications to operators on failures in undeployment phase
Benefits / Value:
Operators are not informed that error occurred during cancelation phase.
Design details:
Separate notifications for subscribers and operators. Separate settings where to send them. For example for operators send even when flow is not set to fail on error.

Consumer consumption API Documentation as PDF/ public Website

FrankS — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:53:52 GMT

Brief Description:
Consumer consumption API Documentation as PDF/ public Website
Benefits / Value:
The consumption APIs are made up to two groupings, or separate APIs, based on the use cases they address: management APIs and consumer APIs. The management API includes calls typically needed in CSA management roles such as system administrators, service designers, and so on. The consumer API includes calls typically needed in CSA consumer actions, such as shopping for and managing IT services. The management API uses basic authentication while the consumer API are APIs that start with /mpp and use the X-Auth-Token parameter that is retrieved from the idm-service token call.
Design details:
We(MPP user only) wants to programm against MPP api Conumer part of consumption API at contract negotiation customer wants to see API documentation

Fix to allow resume of subscription after failure in provider selection flow

FrankS — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:54:08 GMT

Brief Description:
Fix to allow resume of subscription after failure in provider selection flow
Benefits / Value:
Idea was that if mpp customer will order something that is not possible to deploy like not enough memory, cpu or storage whole processing will stop in reservation phase. The operations will add missing resource to datacenter and update resource pools, and then whole subscription will be resumed so customer can have seamless experience just with longer time of delivery. Even when resource pools are increased you cannot properly resume subscription from reservation phase.
Design details:
Explain how would you like this idea designed / implemented

Support for Downtimeless Upgrade/Update procedures

FrankS — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:46:32 GMT

Brief Description:
Support for Downtimeless Upgrade/Update procedures
Benefits / Value:
Support that even for Updates it is suggested to stop Both Nodes of a clustered CSA environment. We want to be able to Upgrade/Update the Portal and Controller clusters without downtime impact the enviroments. There must be a described update path that allows Controllers in a certain version to Work with MPPs in a different version while upgrading/updating. Controllers must be possible to upgrade/update one node while the other node is still running and serving customers in older Version.
Design details:
Enterprise enviroment needs to be always up and running

RO 'Provider's Override' Dialog box when updating Service Offering

FrankS — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:39:09 GMT

Brief Description:

RO 'Provider's Override' Dialog box when updating Service Offering

Benefits / Value:

Lets say you have configured a Resource Offering which uses Provider Type with more than one Providers in it. Then you create Service Design&Service Offering and remove the unwanted Provders , so that there is only 1 provider mapped to that Resource Offering. When you then update another Service Offering that uses that Resource Offering, it fetches the information from the DB and overwrites the 'Providers' section in that Resource Offering so that it has the default number of Providers , as specified in the Provider Type, because of this a deployment fails if they chose the wrong one.

Design details: My suggestion is to create a dialog box on each Service Offering update that will override the Providers section with checkbox "Yes" and "No".

New way of handling of JSP null values at order time

FrankS — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:23:07 GMT

Brief Description
New way of handling of JSP null values at order time
Benefits / Value

Subscriber Option with 2 possible inputs in their Service Offering.

Consider an example as Data center name

1. String property.

2. Hidden Dynamic property.

Some of their End Customer will be asked to provide the details in the text field, while few other will not.

Design details
Null pointer should be handle by these function

End user request can be modified by approver before provisioning (+ multi-level approvers)

Alberto Belotti — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 08:13:17 GMT

•Brief Description
A request, submitted from user, before provisioning can be modified by approver

•Benefits / Value
This help organizations, with different level of maturity, to adopt HCM solution as default tech catalog.
Today, in the manual process, there are a lot of exceptions that need to be managed. Some can be addressed eg. using MPP & input validations, other still managed manaully

•Design details
After the request has been submitted, the approver (defined in the auth process) can do these tasks:

- Approve: the request without any modification
- Reject: the request (the request back to the end-user). The req is still open (like before submit) and need some change from end user. A field with instruction from approver is displayed
- Refuse: The req will be rejected & closed from approver. End user will be informed
- Change: The approver can change any value in the req and approve it. The end user will be informed that his req has been approved with these new values changed by "approver"

** Additional value could be **
- Define multi level of approvers (not just one)
- Define which fields can be modified by approvers
eg. Approver1 (1st level) can modify just filed1 & field2 (other fields are in RO)
Approver2 (2nd level) can modify just field3 & field4

This mean that I should have the ability to define a granular level of security for each input in the req

CSA Database logical consistency checker

Michael_it — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:16:18 GMT

Brief Description

Possibility to verify the internal logic of the CSA Database is correct.

over the runtime of CSA (we do run a production instance with DB created with CSA 3.2) we observed several occassions of DB logic corruptions. due to several issues.

e.g. Cross cluster logic issues (e.g. Organisations dublicated in DB). Programming issues. orphraned objects due to incomplete deletion process in old CSA versions. Uprade procedures not correctly upgrading legacy Data.

Benefits / Value

We observe several Issues due to DB inconsistencies resulting in Downtimes of CSA and unnecessary Incidents/cases with Microfocus. verifying DB consistency would allow proactive checking and reduce Downtime and Amount of cases

Design details

An extra support tool that verifys that in the DB logically is everything consistent as far as it is possible to be checked. e.g. checking for dublicates in tables where no dublicates should be. check for orphraed objects that are not linked any more. etc. as a result the Tool should show a status and a potential list of issues identified.

Split Service Operator Role into Service Operator Teams Per List of Offerings

Michael_it — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 11:15:13 GMT

Brief Description

Split Service Operator Role into Service Operator Teams Per List of Offerings

Benefits / Value

But larger CSA instances you will have multiple Teams taking care for different Usecases/Designs or even on Offering Level ... eg. Design A -> Offering 1 is for Customer 1 and supported by Team 1 but Design A -> Offering 2 is for Customer 2 and supported by Team 2.

this implies that not one Support team is sufficent any more on Org level but best would be on Offering Level.

this allows CSA to be used for larger Enterprises

Design details

a model similar to the different Roles in the MPP would be needed here... split down the Service Operator Role on Provider Side into different Service Operator Teams authorized by LDAP being responsible for a set of Offerings.

Using a catalog is probably not good as with Customer Admin Role customers can sort offerings them self into catalogs interfering with Operations Model

when creating offerings you select an Service Operations Team (or stick with classic -> Serivce Operator Role) when a Member of the Service Operations Team log into Provider Org he/she will have Service Operator Role for just those Offerings.

Aggregate OO flows triggered by CSA

Yaniv Amrami — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 07:51:34 GMT

Hi,
When requesting a service via HCM and creating a subscription, the CSA fulfilment engine starts multiple OO flows. Today it is hard to track which OO flow belong to which CSA request, and makes the troubleshooting extremely difficult.

We would like the ability to aggregate the flows triggered from the same subscription in a way it will be easier to sort/filter in OO central.
One possibility is to be able to customize and send the runName (we still would like to see the flow name though. Maybe adding a string to the name).

Thank you,

Yaniv

configure pause subscription at catalog or offering level

Michael_it — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:46:24 GMT

•Brief Description
configure pause subscription at catalog or offering level
•Benefits / Value
this allows different models of acting towards failures in different Designs/offerings.
organizations are not right level to define pausing. if a subscription should be right away failing or should be fixed by an operator is usually to be decided based on the Design and what it is good for.
currently it is impossible to allow designs to fail when you have other offerings/designs that must be handled by pausing
•Design details
Move/add a function at minimum at catalog level that defines if subcriptions will pause or fail.
probably catalog is the right level between micromanagement and flexibility.
although at catalog level might grow the amount of catalogs exponentialy taking the matrix of different settings into account(permissions, potentially notifications, approval policies)
based on the growing amount of potential settings it might be a better way to set all at offering level.
there is anyway a lot that needs to be configured at offering
maybe it is good to make a standard set of Configurations for a CSA instance for newly created offerings
this would allow an CSA admin to sepcify best match for most new offering cases

Provide Maintenance Mode feature for Plattformupgrades That gracefully dry out the environment

Michael_it — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:10:28 GMT

Brief Description
Provide Maintenance Mode feature for Plattformupgrades That gracefully dry out the environment
Benefits / Value
currently you do a hard Stop to CSA or OO which means there could be lifecycle processes pending OO Flows running. this can cause several unexpected failures when shuting down the services in this mode
Benefit of implementing is controlled shutdown of a very utilizied environment to allow running jobs to finish but stop getting new ones.
currently all upgrade guides suggest you should finish all Flows /CSA processes before starting the upgrade. but very utilized environments dont have a period where nothing comes in
Design details
Explain how would you like this idea designed / implemented
This is mainly for OO and CSA. setting maintenance mode for the suite would mean you dont sshutdown services imeadiatly. active maintenance in OO means no new flows via UI/API/Scheduler . Running flows will continou until finished.
For CSA it could mean you either directly accept no new request or you accept request but dont start Lifecycles. probably for a start accepting nothing at all would be ok. also here waiting that at least open processes instances finishes. but then do not start next process instance.
please also take into account the cross product dependecies. When OO goes to maintenance CSA cant launch flows anymore. so probably CSA part should go first into Maintenance then OO

Marketplace portal (csa version 4.70) - support changing date, time and currency format

p.kovalenko — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:55:20 GMT

Hello.

I found in CSA 4.80 an rb.json files ($CSA_HOME/portal/node_modules/mpp-ui/dist/locales/<locale>/rb.json), which is very useful to make preffered date, time and currency format for each supported locale. Changing this file takes effect after without rebooting mpp service - we just need to re-login.

In CSA 4.70 there are also such files, but changing them does not lead to changes in the marketplace portal date time and currencies formats. (And MF Support team does not know why)

It would be great to get a patch that will solve this problem for CSA 4.70.

Replace Offering function

RamunasP — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:08:14 GMT

In General we have issue with most of new changes release. Like you develop new field or whatever new to design then creating new offering, then exporting - moving to production by importint that offering. After it you need to unpublish old offering and publish new. So if we have like 30 Offerings, and 10 catalogs with diffrent approval policies and etc. so it is a lot of clicks to republish everything. I think function where you map offerings and say, replace or migrate to new would do that all republish (unpublish old and publish new) would help a lot.

Support Azure in Cloud Optimizer

DanielN — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:02:44 GMT

Support Azure in the HCM Component Cloud Optimizer

Would be great if one of the most popular cloud system MS Azure will be supported by the cloud optimizer in HCM.

Current Datasource Support Matrix: https://docs.microfocus.com/itom/Cloud_Optimizer:3.04/Add_Datasources

CSA - Sort order on dynamic list selection from database

Haja — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:09:00 GMT

Hello

By default, dynamic list is sorted by name.

We have a MySQL table that contains the list items with a sort order column. The idea is to populate the CSA list field sorted by this column and not by the display name.

The SQL query called by the JS script is for example : SELECT name_col,value_col from LIST_ITEM order by order_col ASC;

Thanks

MPP Welcome Page

Rodion Wentzek — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:54:36 GMT

We are implementing HCM for an Internet service provider who wants to go public with (Virtual) Private Cloud offerings for enterprise customers. The customer wants to have a single URL/home page for the MPP regardless which organization the given consumer is belonging to.

Ideally, there would be a single/unified logon page, and based on the entered credentials the corresponding MPP/catalog of the correct consumer organization would be displayed.

As a first step into this direction, HCM may optionally support a "Welcome Page" before the logon page(s) to the various consumer organizations are displayed.

This welcome page would serve multiple purposes:

It would enable a single URL/entry point to any (consumer) organization.
It would support a drop-down list to select the consumer organization. Because this would publicly expose the whole list of consumer organizations without logon, this should be an optional feature.
It would provide an option to list the Terms & Conditions of using this web page and its services (possibly addressed by link).
It would (optionally) contain a cookie acceptance feature, which is a legal requirement for any public web offering in order to comply with the GDPR rules in the European Union since 2018-05. -- Applies only if the MPP uses cookies, of course.

Because all of this could easily be achieved with a single custom HTML page, it would possibly be good enough if the MPP web server supports the delivery of a single custom welcome page (stored on NFS) as part of its configuration.

MPP customization

Bigbang_1 — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 18:08:55 GMT

subscribers see the all options vertically organized on the service configuration page of provisioning step in MPP portal. We would like to organize some options horizantally. You can check pic 2

We would like to make some customization at mpp page.

Dynamic variable selection

Bigbang_1 — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 18:02:31 GMT

In our service design , we have three options as "disk1, disk2,disk3" under option set called "Disk". During the provisioning, the additional disk options (disk2,disk3) constantly appear on the page. We woud like to customize it as dynamically. For example, when the subscribers reach the provisioning step, they will see disk 1 option constantly, and they can include additional disk 2 , disk 3 options on the page with a " +" icon. To sum up, we want to make some options appear dynamically on the page.

(Following picture explains this request)

DBPurgeTool can be automated

Podeternay — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:31:18 GMT

Hello,

When running the DB Purge tool to delete subscriptions or audit data, it will be prompted for a username and password.

=> It isn't possible to launch it automatically (through a schedule task for example).

Is it possible to change this tool so that it can be automated ?

Best regards,

"Unavailable" page when MPP is down in CSA-HCM

Jean-Charles Ripault — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:04:01 GMT

I have been asked by a partner if there would be a way for CSA-HCM to make sure a clean customizable “Maintenance in Progress” page is displayed in lieu of the MPP when it or CSA is down instead of a system error message.

The MPP is a customer-facing page and several customers requested that the tool would clearly announce the “down” status using a bypass when the main pages can’t be reached instead of leaving a user timed out.

Support for RHEL 7.6 in HCM

Dusko Lazarevic — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 10:15:57 GMT

Hi,

There is a need to add support for RHEL version 7.6 for the whole HCM Suite installation that includes also Vertica, Remote Service Action, Discovery and Cloud Analytics components..

Dynamic workload placement?

julianr — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 14:30:32 GMT

This has been requested many times in the past. HCM should have the ability to offer, out of the box, location alternatives for workload to be placed on, taking into consideration a number of factors such as locality, cost, resource quota... Micro Focus may have a look at competitive or complementary products that claim to do so.