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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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Automatically update CQ OSLC provider with schema revision

The ClearQuest OSLC provider within the CQ CM server (cqwebprofile) is used by ClearCase CMI integration to query about schema information. Currently the cqwebprofile needs to be restarted in order to reflect the change after a user DB upgrade int...
almost 2 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

API to manage Maintenance Mode

We have the ability to create blackouts within UCD as part of the API offering. When setting a blackout period maintenance mode is automatically enabled, however when the blackout ends the maintenance mode is left on. I agree with this approach in...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Functionality already exists

WebSphere OpenID Connect Relying Party - Could you please add client_assertion as an authentication method?

Current Situation: We are using the IBM supplied replying party plugin with Microsoft Entra: Component name: OpenID Connect Relying Party TAI TAI class name: com.ibm.ws.security.oidc.client.RelyingParty Version: 9.0 f5192405.01 This combination al...
9 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Under review

SERVERWLM Support for z/OS Connect

In order to achieve high availability in z/OS Connect, the product documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-sysplex-distributor) recommends use of a DVIPA to distribute workload between multiple LPAR...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced journaling in Installation Manager

When something goes wrong during product installation or update with IM, it's often difficult to do a post-mortem. The current logs are not sufficient to pinpoint the failing step and root cause. Thus it would be helpful to get clear and detailed ...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / ClearCase 1 Not under consideration

Fix the issue that's causing stuck of the JWT tokens from the z/OS Liberty server

A JSON Web Token(JWT) can get stuck. It manifests as /zosmf/services/authenticate endpoint issuing a JWT with success RC that is not valid for api calls, resulting in 401 rc. This is a persistent condition. We are tracking two cases where it happe...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Liberty zOS SAF delegation switch

In WAS z/OS traditional cells, we are using the paramters: com.ibm.security.SAF.authorization = false and com.ibm.security.SAF.delegation = false.The developers use the application-bnd.xml files to map J2EE roles to a bind-able referenced role in ...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Custom filtering or grouping of systems

Provide custom filtering of systems so they can be grouped as business needs or organizational needs dictate.(
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability to create Snapshot without environment via Jenkins UCD plugin

We want to create a snapshot that only includes the components we are deploying, we don't want to include the components which are already deployed in the environment. Its helpful since now developers has to manually remove the unwanted components...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Under review

be able to tell the model.compiler what type/size of indent to use for the in model code snipits when generating c++

useful for code reviewers this used to be done (by default) w 10.2 /* ;rt-indent: 2;rt-indent-char-sp; */ but with 12.x it doesn't generate any indent /* ;rt-indent: 0;rt-indent-char-sp; */ 10.2 void Namespace::Class::Operation( int variable ) { ...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Model RealTime 0 Future consideration