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PINNED Terminal emulator support on Docker image
Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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Session Timeout returned to default after product upgrade

The web.xml config is replaced everytime a new Devops Deploy version is installed. It would be great to have a customized setting on GUI "Server Settings" to manage the Timeout (by default 30 minutes) instead of going to specific configuration fil...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 6 Needs more information

Plugin Mongo DB for UCD Deploy

Our application teams would like to have possibility to deploy SQL files to MongoDB database. Plugin should work similar to MSSQL, Sybase, Oracle plugins that already exist in UCD.
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Needs more information

UrbanCode Deploy – Support for JIT Provisioning and User Sync with OIDC/SAML

Customer SMBC has implemented UrbanCode Deploy 7.2.3 with OIDC authentication via Microsoft Entra ID.While OIDC authentication works, the current product lacks: Just-In-Time (JIT) user provisioning – automatic creation of user accounts at first lo...
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Needs more information

MSA and GMSA service account support for the ucdagent

Use case: Windows ucdgagent Active directory service accounts are restricted to systems in the allowed "Logon To" list. This is very restrictive in the amount f systems you can have this account to access. Basically approximately 64 systems. I the...
over 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 8 Needs more information

Install diagnostic features by default when using features.sh with the Liberty kernel base image

If the Liberty kernel base image is used to build a container (e.g. icr.io/appcafe/websphere-liberty:kernel-java17-openj9-ubi) and features.sh is used to install the necessary features from the server XML file(s), then, usually, potentially requir...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Needs more information

New category 'Technical' for application processes to remove exposure to the user

Designing the processing for our Cobol pipeline we have ran into situations when we need to start a process in another environment then the one that was requested by the user. For example when we deploy to PR we need to start a process in a test e...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Needs more information

UI improvements to help connect deployments to versions

Our users have compained about it being hard to see which version is being processed in a deployment. This of course can be found in the Manifest tab but it would be better to see it at the top of the deployment log tab. It would also be good to b...
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Needs more information

Mandatory Version Selection when starting UCD Deployment

While working on the UCD deployments, we have noticed that it is possible to run a deploy process without adding a component version. This is usually done unintentionally. So the idea here is to make the version selection a mandatory process by ei...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Needs more information

Enabling Bottleneck Detection Metric in Insights Dashboard of DevOps Velocity

According to the documentation provided by IBM https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/devops-velocity/5.0.x?topic=bar-bottleneck-detection , the Bottleneck Detection metric helps highlight points in the value stream where work is slowing down, allowing us to...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 1 Needs more information

Implementing Time-Based execution lock for Application processes

Hello Team, To control and restrict when an application process can be executed, we need to implement a time-based execution lock. This mechanism will allow the process to run only within a specified time window, ensuring it is executed only durin...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Needs more information