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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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Simplifying the installation process for fix packs and patches

Currently, updating involves installing these fixes at the Deployment Manager (dmgr), which only updates one side of the cluster. The second side requires manual updating to each application server on that cluster, which can be cumbersome. A signi...
about 11 hours ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Submitted

Version control for processes

Ability to version control processes with a version control system, i.e. Git. This would allow for better tracking of changes and a better experience for developers.
about 16 hours ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Submitted

Highlight changes in draft process

It is difficult to see exactly where the changes are in a draft when using Safe edit for component processes. It would help both the developer and colleagues doing review if the process editor could highlight changed steps and properties. The high...
about 16 hours ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Submitted

Support virtual baseDN mapping im Liberty to improve SSO with tWAS

VMM in tWAS environments are supporting virtual baseDN in VMM which are then via wimconfig.xml mapped to real LDAP baseDNs via the baseEntries configuration like for example <baseEntries name="cn=externalUsers" nameInRepository="cn=users,cn=ext...
18 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

SAML Single Sign On or Single Logout to support HTTP-Redirect Binding

Liberty seems to only support HTTP-POST binding for SAML Login and Logout based on our investigation <md:SingleLogoutService Binding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST" Location="https://......." />We have configured our applica...
21 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

adjust file permissions for the secured-installed.properties file on the deploy server

The `/<UCD_INSTALL_HOME>/conf/server/secured-installed.properties` file permissions is to open, at 0644. Changing this to 0600 or 0640 ends up reverting back to 0644 once the server or the deploy server application is restart. Since this fil...
9 days ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Submitted

RIT Agent should have a script for stopping it

So far up to RIT Agent version 11.0.1, it hasn't a script for shutting it down, so whenever a user wants to stop RIT Agent, process killing is the only way. A dirty process killing may leave RIT Agent, Engines and KairosDB in a bad status so poten...

Remove results db requirement for suite results publisher files in RIT/DTIA

Because of PCI data concerns, our testers don't want to enable the results database, but they would still like to report execution metrics using the results publisher functionality. This could be facilitated by adding a 4th Attach option on the Cu...
28 days ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Workbench 0 Submitted

WASPreUpgrade command allowed on the same version

Currently the WASPreUpgrade command is not allowed on the same version, so we must have two different versions installed on the same server or IBM i and run the command from the new version, entering the old version as a parameter. In scenarios of...
4 months ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits 2 Submitted

To support z/OS Liberty container in z/OS Container Platform (zOSCP)

My client is evaluating the feasibility of modernizing his traditional WebSphere on z/OS applications to run in WebSphere Liberty servers. Each application has numerous customized security profiles in RACF, and it is desirable to reuse these profi...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted