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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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Upgrade Jandex Version to Support the Latest Persistent Format Version to Shorten CDI scanning processing

We are addressing the Java version-up project and have a problem of taking about at least 12 minutes to start Liberty in the development environment (Eclipse), which means that development productivity cannot be increased and fundamental measures ...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Enhanced Dashboard Customization for Team-Specific Views

We appreciate the introduction of the Enhanced Dashboard in DevOps Deploy v8.1.0 , which provides comprehensive insights into deployment health, agent utilization, and deployment schedules. However, from a user perspective, the current implementat...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Future consideration

In AMA Dev Tools, support multi-module projects with no defined "application root"

This has come up a few times, nost recently with CE in this thread: https://ibm-cloud.slack.com/archives/C07S61EMFKP/p1747943622417809 In AMA Dev tools, the application root is defined as the ear or war for the project. There must be exactly 1 war...
22 days ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Future consideration

We would like to have an SMF-record written for every MDB-request executed in a Liberty server

In traditional WAS we make use of the 120.9 record to analyze our different kind of WAS-load, regarding problem determination, cpu consumption, performance and transaction volumes.We want to do the same in Liberty, but are there delimited by just ...
12 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Add a feature to categorise roles, so we can differentiate between privileged and non-privileged roles and apply restrictions

Our Admin team currently manages roles in UrbanCode by allowing Team Leads to add other users to roles they are already part of. However, recent audits have highlighted the need for a more thorough method of verifying that users have been correctl...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 8 Not under consideration

Inclusion of "Running" and "Approval In Progress" Status in Application Deployment History Page

Inclusion of "Running" and "Approval In Progress" Status in Application Deployment History Page Overview: Currently, UrbanCode Deploy allows filtering of deployment statuses by "Success," "Cancelled," and "Failed." However, it lacks the capability...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Under review

Host an IBM-per-Customer Maven-Repository to download the WLP license files

Currently, downloading the WLP license files (base/core) requires manual steps: Logging in to IBM Browsing through Download Central Clicking through a set of sites Downloading the license Verifying the signature Re-Uploading to our internal reposi...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

ClearCase installation should display how much space is required

ClearCase 2025A fixpack installation/update will stop with an error "Available disk space at <filesystem> is insufficient" when such condition occurs. However it doesn't tell how much space is required. It would be more useful that Installat...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / ClearCase 3 Under review

COH Add Thread status log entries to Liberty code - Equivalent of TWas Runtime.ThreadMonitorHeartbeat

Traditional WebSphere had a configuration setting (Runtime.ThreadMonitorHeartbeat) that instructed it to log details about its thread pool usage e.g. the number of hung threads/size of the pool. Liberty does not have this functionality. Liberty on...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Offline mode for running recipes in AMA Dev Tools

"We want to use WCA in a network restricted environment where the developer workstation with VS Code has access to WCA but not to sources like maven central or GitHub for example. Two of the use cases are "Modernize to Liberty" and "Upgrade Java"....
27 days ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Needs more information