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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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Improve RHEL 8 lifecycle support on Cloud Pak System

We are not in a position to get a RHEL 8.x minor release rolled out at scale within the 2 years of EUS provided by Red Hat (please also refer to the uploaded diagram: IBM CPS – RHEL 8 lifecycle challenge.pdf): - Red Hat provides 2 years of EUS (ex...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 2 Planned for future release

Upgrade Agent have limitation of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer Agent - which is problematic if customer have 50.000 UCD Agents to upgrade

Upgrade Agent feature have limitation described on documentation as: "Updating many agents simultaneously can have a significant affect the server. As a rule-of-thumb, limit the number of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer." Which is problematic...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Provide mTLS support in web utilities plugin for REST HTTP calls

currently web utilities plugin supports basic authentication only for HTTP calls and this does not meet our security standards for automation.
about 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Use systemd to run UCD agent as a service in Linux servers

We have been using init.d to run our UCD agents as service in our Linux servers, but systemd could be used as an alertnative of init.d because it is a backward compatibility for RHEL 7 or above servers.
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Enhance Application Process Required Role

Currently application processes can be configured so that a required role is needed to run the process. Unfortunately this is limited to a single role. We currently have a range of platform roles for seniority in platform teams that work across mu...
12 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 9 Planned for future release

To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for one WebSphere Application Server

The IDEA is part 1 of an existing IDEA https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107; it limits the change scope to one server. The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect traditional WebSph...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Deploy data sets to multiple target PDS

For deployment to production of our online load modules we have a situation where two different target PDS are involved, one for runtime (GITZ.PR2.ONLINE.LOAD)(and on for nightly deployments (GITZ.PR2.NEW.ONLINE.LOAD). When deploying to PR the use...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Planned for future release

To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for a list of WebSphere Application Servers

The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect traditional WebSphere and Liberty servers. It facilitates the application of security fixes one by one on each server.Some customers have hundre...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Planned for future release

Metrics for deployments to show actual deployer

By specifying the user that triggered the deployment, the metrics become much more meaningful
about 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 2 Planned for future release

The Last update time of map entries used by evictors is lost in a shard replication

The following details have been provided in 08953,442,000 and we have been told to raise a RFE to get the issue fixed. This is a HIGH priority issue to ODM, because it implies a bug in the ODM DSI product and a customer has already fall into it fe...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere eXtreme Scale 0 Planned for future release