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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

Rational Automated Software Quality

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Implement CICS virtualization to Rational Test Automation Server

Mainframe customers need this capability. Without this capability, mainframe customers will not look at RTAS
5 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 2 Future consideration

Support .NET Core 6.0 Desktop Applications and WPF in Rational Functional Tester

Currently RFT supports .NET applications until the .NET 4.6.1 version of Desktop Applications. Such .NET version is obsoleted from Microsoft in mid 2022 and Microsoft encourages to migrate applications on .NET Core 6.x applications. So new Desktop...
10 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration

RTAS Installation with No-Cluster Admin

RTAS installation in Openshift requires Cluster Admin rights and this permission is not possible for a organization using Openshift platform with a multi-tenant topology Requiring a Cluster Admin for installation of the product is not possible sin...
almost 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 0 Future consideration

RIT Database DB2 Mutual SSL / Certificate Authentication

When defining a database connection in Physical View for a z/OS DB2 database, it's currently not possible to configure Mutual SSL / Certificate Authentication as described for example on this page: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=sudsdj...
5 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Workbench 1 Future consideration

Upgrade RFT eclipse to support Java 11

We need to move our framework to java 11 to take advantage of the improvements but having RFT still on Java 8 is a hindrance.
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Future consideration

RTAS Installation for RHEL

Rational Test Automation Server installation type has been changed from physical machine ways to containerized type and we have only two types as of now 1. Openshift Containerized2. Ubuntu K3S We are currently looking for RHEL K3S type of installa...
almost 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 2 Not under consideration

RTAS Support for Openshift DR

RTAS is currently not supporting the Disaster Recovery scenarios in Openshift installation type and partially support via Velero plugin installation in Openshift. However, the PVC's backup and restoring it to a different namespace is quite tedious...
almost 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 0 Future consideration

Create option to open browser in incognito mode using startBrowser

Create option to open browser in incognito mode using startBrowser
8 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration

Mixed mode support in RTW

Sometimes applications use Windows common dialogs and mixed domains. Rational Functional Tester natively supported this, and this feature should be put into Rational Test Workbench so that these dialogs can be accessed, and not blindly via keystro...
8 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Workbench 2 Future consideration

RTAS - Selenium execution support

We would like to be able to run Selenium tests from the RTAS. We assume some example workspace containing Selenium and related execution might be sufficient.
about 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 1 Not under consideration