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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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Metadata for Teams and Groups

Would it be possible to have a description or metadata field within the teams and groups. Currently we need to manage and maintain an external file that contains owners and approvers for team and group access requests, this can be difficult to mai...
11 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 5

Default Teams for New Objects Amendment

We currently have permission issues within our resource tree where visibility and usage is incorrectly assigned. We have several groups that are used by platform teams that are then assigned into roles. We have found that people are not updating t...
11 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3

Best practices for NTP service in OpenShift

The NTP service configuration performed by the OpenShift installation using the Cloud Pak System accelerator should apply a best practice to keep the clocks on the nodes in sync. The default configuration of the NTP service increases the risk of c...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Future consideration

Fix behavior of Terminate Threads setting

Setting the Terminate Threads setting to Yes (default is No) is described as having the following effect: "Determines when a threaded step fails. All other active thread blocks in the same project are stopped", which is what we want to happen. Ref...
5 months ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 0 Future consideration

Enable Liberty installables download through FixCentral API's

To fully automate(unmanned) Liberty software build pipelines to (1) check latest release versions and (2) download it through FixCentral, we wanted FixCentral download feature to be made available through API's, something like hosting them on deve...
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Functionality already exists

To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for one WebSphere Application Server

The IDEA is part 1 of an existing IDEA https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107; it limits the change scope to one server. The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect traditional WebSph...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

LTPA token timeout should respond to user activity

This is a requirement for ISO 27001 certification. This type of functionality is required by many security teams, and it is really hard to justify, explain, and get security deviations. It would be useful because users would not be harassed by fre...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Ease the airgap installation by providing a tar file for download

Many of our customers cannot download any containers from icr.io directly due to firewall reasons. There is a documentation how to download the images for airgap, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cta?topic=install-airgap But this still means that e...
2 months ago in Transformation Advisor 0 Submitted

Urbancode Agents java management in one click

As we can see there is a new feature introduced in UrbanCode UI starting from v7.2.3 where java can be managed for agents. There are multiple steps to install and set up java for an agent such as first install the java in agent, then set the java ...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Urbancode agent relays java management via UI

As we can see there is a java management feature starting from v7.2.3 via UrbanCode UI for agents.The same way it will be good to have a feature where we can manage the java for agent relays as well. This will help us to upgrade the java of relays...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Not under consideration