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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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UCD Settings - Mainframe Pipeline Admin - Server Configuration - possibility to set different settings in Manage Security, like viewing the settings set. Now you are able to change them ALL!

We as Pipeline Admins as well as our Security department is interested in limiting the risk of people having to many privileges in UrbanCode Deploy. Today you see this if you toggle the Manage security setting on/off:Manage Security - gives you th...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Under review

ClearQuest Web Server Using Tomcat Implementation

Implement ClearQuest web services using Apache Tomcat, including the companion Report Launcher. (1) ClearCase and ClearQuest are often deployed together and should offer parallel implementation solutions. In 2018, the ClearCase/ClearQuest roadmap ...
over 4 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 3 Future consideration

SSL Certificate Management for Liberty Profile. Certificate expiry Alerting and Certificate Renewal

WAS Liberty Profile requires SSL expiry monitoring and alerting. SSL Certificates are usually valid for many years, and the expiry dates of certificates are often missed, until the system fails due to expired certificates.
about 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Websphere Audit log format

System: WebSphere Application ServerActor: User needing improvement on existing feature Description: We are using WAS 8.5.5 and 9.0. The audit log generated by WebSphere is in binary format which is not readable by QRadar. Request to generate the ...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Future consideration

integrate IBM Velocity approval gates with an outside source through a REST API

At our last IBM UCD/Velocity lab advocate meeting, we discovered that there is no way to integrate IBM’s approval gates with an outside source through a REST API (or any other means it sounds like) so that we can plug in the Approval Gateway Tool ...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 2 Under review

App expanded folder auto cleanup

When applications deployed to a Liberty server are expanded, e.g. <applicationManager autoExpand="true"/> the expanded war and ear files are not deleted when the corresponding application is stopped and removed from the Liberty server.An exp...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Improve and simplify the setup of Liberty InstantOn including a better step-to-step guide

The openliberty.io page is great to provide some guidance on implementing Liberty InstantOn. The problem I find is the guide is a little too high level. I had to restort to much searching to find githib labs and other documents to actually complet...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Better error reporting for Liberty InstantOn

I have been working with WebSphere Liberty InstantOn in OpenShift on the X86 and Power-10 platforms. One of the most challenging aspects revolves around the error reporting of both OpenShift errors and more specifically the CRIU errors. It has bee...
10 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Agent name integration in UCD Deployment output logs for better debugging

For any deployment log in UCD, if we open the output log, few details are displayed like below under the environment.environment: AGENT_HOME=/opt/urbancode/ibm-ucdagent AH_AUTH_TOKEN=**** AH_WEB_URL=https://ucd-service.lloydsbanking.cloud:8443 AUT...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review

UUCD 7 UI has a lot of white space and less information can fit in a window

We're updating from UCD 6.2 to 7.1. The UI has changed a lot and we are still getting used to it, but there are a few things worth mentioning. In this case it's about how much information can fit in a window. Not as much as in 6.2! I think the wor...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration