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Option to search in process design for impact analysis

When there is a complex and large process designed in DevOps Deploy, if someone want to know what are the steps which use property "jes.host" there is no easier way to find it. We have two options, either we open the processes one by one and check...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

Acquire Lock - Update Process Step to allow a Switch if Lock exists

This request is to update the Acquire Lock process step to allow branching paths depending on if the lock already exists. The general idea is, if the lock has been created by another process, we would like a way to fail out the process. This would...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy

Cache support/implementation in RIT/RTVS for repeated requests to improve performance virtualization

Current Environment Deployment: Rational Test Virtualization Server (RTVS) with Agents and RTCP Primary Use Case: Performance virtualization and high‑volume performance testing Business Problem In the current setup, during performance and load tes...
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization Future consideration

Failure reporting enhancement

DevOps Deploy 8.1.2 - In Reporting I can get a report of failed deployments, more information would be very helpful
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration

Support .NET Core 6.0 Desktop Applications and WPF in Rational Functional Tester

Currently RFT supports .NET applications until the .NET 4.6.1 version of Desktop Applications. Such .NET version is obsoleted from Microsoft in mid 2022 and Microsoft encourages to migrate applications on .NET Core 6.x applications. So new Desktop...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI Future consideration

Enhance plugin to use t3 and also t3s as protocols to form the server URL in OSB plugin

it will be useful to deploy over SSL port, not all companies enable non-ssl ports, for security reason and best practices, most communication is done on SSL port itself.
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Under review

Simplifying the installation process for fix packs and patches

Currently, updating involves installing these fixes at the Deployment Manager (dmgr), which only updates one side of the cluster. The second side requires manual updating to each application server on that cluster, which can be cumbersome. A signi...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation Not under consideration

GUI options for clearcase cmi integration

The purpose of this idea is to add default menus in clearcase GUI (CTE, CC Explorer, Windows Explorer) for the following functionalities: -list versions and their association under the current directory -select a current task from the list of avai...
8 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase Under review

SAML Single Sign On or Single Logout to support HTTP-Redirect Binding

Liberty seems to only support HTTP-POST binding for SAML Login and Logout based on our investigation <md:SingleLogoutService Binding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST" Location="https://......." />We have configured our applica...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Not under consideration