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Enhance patch automation to support tWAS instances installed by IM in Admin mode

Many tWAS instances were installed by IM in Admin mode. During WSA patch installation, the playbook terminated with error message: >>> ValueError: Installation directory is not owned by wasadmin but IM accessRights is admin The tWAS was ...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

RFT supports for Microsoft Edge with IE mode

Now, we are using Microsoft Edge but web application designed for IE is still remaining. Therefore, we request RFT supports Edge with IE mode.
about 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Planned for future release

Deploy Virtual Appliances with several ordered network interfaces through REST API

We need to deploy Virtual Appliances on PureApplication Software through IBM Cloud Orchestrator, meaning using PureApplication REST API.Moreover, we need to deploy the Virtual Appliances with 2 network interfaces and be able to assign explicitely ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release

[wi 97960]RAM 7.5.1.2: Allow Description and short description fields to be selected in Search assets page.

System: Rational Asset Manager v7.5.1.2 RAM ?Search for Assets? page doesn't allow selecting Description and Short Description fields to the select columns list. Because of that, "Download as spreadsheet" will not have Description and Short Descri...
about 11 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Planned for future release

Ability to use path map variable or classpath of the project with the Java visualization.

UML models (*.emx-files) and class diagrams (*.dnx-files) should be independent from the project in which they were created.Using Path map variable or the classpath of the current project to resolve Java types could help to achieve this.
almost 17 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 2 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...
10 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Include embedded products: BAW and ODM

I like the automation feature but it is incomplete without the embedded products. For eg, I cannot use its features on WebSphere that is underneath the BAW or ODM products. So far, I have discovered that even WAS that is installed as part of the p...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Audit role to access Log Management feature

On CPS console, on System menu, on System Settings web page, there is Log Management section.On this section, user can update Log Management parameters – number of days to retain log files, Destination address, log files to be collected. Based on ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release

Record Log Management actions on audit log files

On CPS console, on System menu, on System Settings web page, there is Log Management section.On this section, user can update Log Management parameters – number of days to retain log files, Destination address, log files to be collected. Currently...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release

Integrate with ServiceNow

ServiceNow is how we track change tickets. It would be nice if WebSphere Automation integrated with ServiceNow so that the installations driven by WebSphere Automation could be started from ServiceNow flows.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release