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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...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 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.
8 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 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...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Display logs in ZOS agent started task in EBCIDC or display nothing

Any ASCII or other (unreadable) data that is not EBCIDC should be prevented from ending up in the SDSF(spool). This IBM Idea has been opened to track the work being done by product development to prevent the unreadable / garbage data, related to t...
about 1 month ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Disable accounts

Instead of deleting accounts we should have the option to disable them. We would also like the option of setting a time period where if a user has not logged on for x days their account is automatically disabled.
8 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 5 Planned for future release

Urbancode agent relays java management via UI

As we can see there is a java management feature starting from v7.2.3 via UrbanCode UI for agents.The same way it will be good to have a feature where we can manage the java for agent relays as well. This will help us to upgrade the java of relays...
10 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Planned for future release

Support WebSphere Automation install on an OpenShift FIPS Enabled Cluster

HCSC and many other customers that work with the government or other entities that work with the government are required to follow FEDRAMP standard. FIPS is a key part of FEDRAMP standard. When an OpenShift Cluster is created, these customers are ...
12 months 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...
10 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Planned for future release

Additional Authentication methods for Secret Store - LDAP

Hello everyone, current Secret store in UCD supports connection to Vault with RoleId bases authentication. I would like to ask if it would be possible to extend the authentication methods by LDAP (https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/auth/ld...
3 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 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.
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Planned for future release