Now available | Rocket DevOps Suite 11.3 Release Announcement

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September 24, 2026
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Jeroen van Dun
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The Rocket Software team is pleased to announce that the new version 11.3 of Rocket® DevOps is now available.

Rocket DevOps is a modernization platform that enables end-to-end CI/CD for IBM® i+ multicode environments. Teams can extend DevOps best practices, introduce new tooling, and move at a pace the business demands – all while keeping legacy workflows fully supported.

Rocket DevOps 11.3.0 represents a significant step forward in Git Integration, AI-assisted Quality and Security — three areas that matter most to organisations modernising their development pipelines.

The focus of this release is:

Git Integration

Rocket DevOps 11.3 treats Git as a first-class part of the platform rather than a side channel. RDOe now supports Git configuration through RDOp and synchronization of Git content metadata into RDOe, so teams can perform Git operations with standard Git tools while RDOe interfaces continue to manage RDOe operations. RDOe GUI deployment can deploy and install Git parts, placing the exact raw content from Git in the deployment location, and RDOp Git Integration now supports both Base and Delta Releases for RDOe. Git branches can be mapped to RDOi delta releases and the mapping viewed from RDOp, while Git users can be mapped to RDOi and RDOe users for commit and push operations, removing the need to create matching IBM i user profiles. RDOp supports additional Git provider types, including cloud-hosted and raw Git repositories, and added support for GitHub.com pipeline providers alongside existing GitHub Enterprise support. Together these changes let organizations adopt mainstream Git workflows incrementally, without giving up the control, traceability and deployment integrity that Rocket DevOps provides.

AI and Quality

This release extends quality engineering across the toolchain and adds AI assistance where it removes repetitive work. RDOp now includes RDOi AI chat integration, combining an RDOp chat window with an RDOi MCP server for AI-assisted SCM queries and intelligent impact analysis and release insights. Static Code Analysis (SCA) can be configured to run automatically during promotion processing, before unit test execution begins (promotion behavior is governed by SCA severity of any detected violations). In addition, SCA can now be run on-demand from RDOi, the VS Code extension, and through the new Option 70 = Run SCA available on the Work with Objects by Release and Work with Objects by Developer screens. The VS Code extension adds unit-test linking, unit-test execution in RDOi, procedure-level test generation, code modularization for RPG and RPGLE, and GitHub Copilot as an additional AI provider. Feature licensing in RDOp tracks these capabilities, and RDOi validates feature keys against license tiers for both SCA and unit testing at the screen and in the promote flow. RDOt adds a Screen flow action type for branched screen execution flows and now supports multiple standalone agents on a single IBM i host, allowing test suites to run in parallel and shortening feedback cycles. AI-generated tests and analysis remain subject to developer review; these features are intended to accelerate test creation and code inspection, not to replace engineering judgement.

Security

Rocket DevOps 11.3 hardens the platform at its foundation. The Security Server has been rewritten to replace the legacy technology stack and no longer relies on Tomcat, improving maintainability, security and scalability. Git mode in VS Code extension now supports MFA users, closing the gap identified in 11.3. RDOi extends Row and Column Access Control to object types *MASK and *PERMSN across RDOi commands and the 25=Retire option, and RCAC tables can now be deployed with Change File While Active (CFWA) by using an RCAC administrator profile defined in Global Options. Promotion and deployment reports generated in working IFS folders now automatically inherit the parent folder's object and data authorities. Additionally, a new CCSID validation feature alerts users when their interactive job CCSID differs from the configured global RDOi CCSID, helping prevent data corruption in mixed-CCSID environments.

Rocket DevOps versions prior to 11.1 are not compatible with IBM i v7.6. If you plan to upgrade to IBM i v7.6, you must upgrade to Rocket DevOps 11.1 or later. Failure to do so will result in unpredictable behaviour and the product will not function as designed.

RDOi 11.3 introduces a new prerequisite: IBM licensed program 5770SS1, option 39, International Components for Unicode. Before upgrading, review the new “Checking CCSID settings before upgrading” topic in the Rocket DevOps core for IBM i Installation Guide 11.3 to set the new RDOi global CCSID value.

Highlights of the release include:

Rocket DevOps core for IBM i

New prerequisite: IBM licensed program 5770SS1, option 39, International Components for Unicode.
Static code analysis (SCA) can now run automatically during promote processing before unit test case processing begins, with promotion behavior controlled by SCA violation severity settings.
Option 70=Run SCA is now available from the Work with Objects by Release and Work with Objects by Developer screens for eligible source types.
Git branches can now be mapped to RDOi delta releases, and the map information can be viewed from RDOp.
RCAC support is extended to object types *MASK and *PERMSN, including option 25=Retire, and RCAC tables can be deployed with CFWA by using an RCAC administrator profile defined in Global Options.
Users are now warned at RDOi startup when their interactive job CCSID differs from the configured global RDOi CCSID.
Unit test case and static code analysis processing now validate feature keys against license tiers from both the relevant screens and the promote flow.
Programs and service programs supplied without source can now be promoted when they reference vendor libraries that are not present on the customer system.
Deployment notification email subjects now include the set number.
Archiving can now be enabled for the ITG and QUA environments.
New 11.3 versions for LANSA link and 2E link compatibility, with additional diagnostics for CA 2E Link promote problems.

Rocket DevOps core for Enterprise

RDOe now supports Git configuration through RDOp and synchronization of Git content metadata into RDOe, so RDOe interfaces manage RDOe operations while Git operations are performed with standard Git tools.
RDOe GUI deployment now supports deploying and installing Git parts, placed in the deployment location with the exact raw content from Git.
RDOp Git Integration now supports Base and Delta Releases for RDOe.
RDOp user profiles now support mapping a Git user to an RDOe user.
The Pipeline tab in RDOp now supports initializing all Git parts to the mapped RDOe Group/Application/Release.
The Security Server has been rewritten to replace the legacy technology stack and no longer relies on Tomcat; the URL now uses the syntax <protocol>://<hostname>:<port>.
Security Server support for the IBM i V7.3 platform is removed.
The RDO diagnostic utility is available to collect basic troubleshooting information for RDOe.
AldCS GUI and command-line client upgrades now reuse existing aldcs.conf options, and the Linux AldCS installer upgrade preserves existing aldcs.conf settings.
Promotion and check-in processing is updated to help avoid AFF3111 optimistic lock failures when deployment options are enabled for parts in a collection assembly.

Rocket DevOps portal

RDOp now includes RDOi AI chat integration, combining an RDOp chat window with an RDOi MCP server for AI-assisted SCM queries and intelligent impact analysis and release insights.
RDOp users can now run RDO on-demand static code analysis.
Git mode in VS Code Extension now supports MFA users.
Delta releases can now be mapped to Git branches, selected during Git pipeline creation, and used consistently in Git-driven delivery workflows.
Git users can now be mapped to RDOi and RDOe users for commit and push operations, avoiding the need to create matching IBM i user profiles.
RDOp supports creating connections and initialization for additional Git provider types, including cloud-hosted and raw Git repositories, and added support for GitHub.com pipeline providers alongside existing GitHub Enterprise support
Real-time in-app notifications for pipeline execution and SonarQube analyses, with per-user preferences and global notification and housekeeping settings.
RDOe deployments can now be scheduled by task.
RDOp user and role management has been consolidated for RDOe and RDOi, with updated UI modernization.
Feature licensing support now tracks and manages new RDOi features.
A Java-based diagnostic utility collects RDOp and RDOt logs, configuration files, service status, environment details and database metadata into compressed support bundles.
RDOp installation on IBM i V7R5 and V7R6 now supports environments where Java 21 is installed.

Rocket DevOps test

Support for installing and running multiple standalone RDOt agents on the same IBM I host, so that multiple standalone tests can run in parallel.

The new Screen flow action type defines branched screen execution flows, with snippets for selecting consecutive screens from attached recordings and a canvas area for building the flow blocks

Rocket DevOps extension for Visual Studio Code

Added the RDO Static Code Analysis feature to perform on-demand static code analysis in RDOi, in both RDOi and Git modes.
Added the Unit Test Linking feature to link source modules with test modules and service programs.
Added the Unit Test Execution feature to execute unit tests in RDOi.
Added procedure-based unit test generation to create unit tests for selected procedures only.
Added the Code Modularization feature to convert RPG and RPGLE code into modularized code.
Added support for GitHub Copilot as a new AI provider, and license tier control for AI features.
Added the Sync Objects by RDOi feature in Git mode to synchronize object source code.
Grouped the Unit Tests and Static Code Analysis features under the new Quality submenu in the context menu.
Enhanced object compile diagnostics for more accurate results.

Product Lifecycle Updates

We’ve updated the Product Lifecycle for Rocket DevOps on docs.rocketsoftware.com under the Compatibility Guides section. This helps customers plan upgrades confidently, knowing they’ll receive long-term support and access to the latest innovations.

End of Support notification

Effective with version 11.3 of Rocket DevOps: