I have created a web-based application that automatically adds a user to jazz. Basically, the user will go to a web-page (or be forwarded to this page from one of our other web-based applications in the event of an error) and can click a button to submit a defect or feature request. The application will then create a jazz user account for them if they do not already have one and redirect them to Jazz.

Our team needed this functionality because we have no dedicated support team and we needed a way for our clients to submit defects without a Jazz account already having been created manually.

The application queries the Jazz DB directly to see if the authenticated user already has an account. If the user has an account he/she is forwarded to Jazz, if not the application will gather the user information from the bluepages LDAP and then ssh into the server that hosts Jazz and uses repoTools to create an account for that user before redirecting.

If you are interested in more information about this application or think it might could be applied elsewhere feel free to contact me at gposton@us.ibm.com