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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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Mandatory Version Selection when starting UCD Deployment

While working on the UCD deployments, we have noticed that it is possible to run a deploy process without adding a component version. This is usually done unintentionally. So the idea here is to make the version selection a mandatory process by ei...
28 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 0 Submitted

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

InstantOn checkpoint.sh supported features validations to make developers life easy when adding to server.xml

InstantOn feature on Openliberty and WebSphere liberty is currently supported from version 23 and above, currently the supported jakarta features, microprofile features are listed per version and there are features which are not supported by insta...
29 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

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 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 2 Planned for future release

Add support for Java 21.

Java 21 is available for more than 1,5 year and developers need to use it.
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Model Architect 0 Under review

Python 3.4 Security Vulnerability

Python 2.7.15 is used within PureApp (FW 2.3.2.0.) currently in production within client. This Python version and versions up to 3.4 show security issues CVE-2013-4238, CVE-2013-1752. Vulnerability has been known since 2015.Pls see description PMR...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 2 Future consideration

Clustered EJB Timer service

The integrated EJB Timer service has to be configured for each application server. While providing support to client I discovered that the EJB Timer Service is configured for APPServer1 and APPServer2 separately by going inside path "Servers > ...
about 1 month ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Functionality already exists

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...
4 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...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / ClearCase 3 Under review

Allow multiple roles to be selected in the 'Required Role' dropdown box against Application Processes

As administrators of UrbanCode Deploy, we would like to propose an enhancement to the Application Process configuration. Currently, the 'Required Role' dropdown box allows us to select only one role to restrict access to running a particular Appli...
7 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration