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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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Update the Technology Report to include Portlets

Today AMA/TA do not show Portlets in the technology report and it gives a false idea of all the technologies being used. Since tWAS still supports the technology it would be good to show that it is not supported in Liberty and not have to find out...
3 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 1 Planned for future release

Historical records in Z Search to cover audit information requests for Mainframe applications

We have internal and external request for different audit processes asking when a specific version of a Mainframe file was deployed. For example, certain functionality was added to a routine and we need to know when that functionality reached prod...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review

Add a feature to categorise roles, so we can differentiate between privileged and non-privileged roles and apply restrictions

Our Admin team currently manages roles in UrbanCode by allowing Team Leads to add other users to roles they are already part of. However, recent audits have highlighted the need for a more thorough method of verifying that users have been correctl...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 8 Not under consideration

Inclusion of "Running" and "Approval In Progress" Status in Application Deployment History Page

Inclusion of "Running" and "Approval In Progress" Status in Application Deployment History Page Overview: Currently, UrbanCode Deploy allows filtering of deployment statuses by "Success," "Cancelled," and "Failed." However, it lacks the capability...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 6

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...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Roadmap for supporting Jakarta 10 and JPA 3.x

We need to move to at least Java 17 and have recently upgraded to RAD 10.0 for Java 17 support. We also have applications which use JPA, that will require some modernization to move to JPA 3.x/Jakarta 10; however, we have found that there is no JP...
6 months ago in Heritage / Application Developer 0 Submitted

Java Virtualization capability for JRE11 / BW5.15 Version

We used to virtualize ad consume the Java Calls initiated from tibco BW 5.13 (Java Version 8) and we spent lot of time and efforts in virtualizing the Java calls. Now, after the BW Version got upgraded to 5.15 with Java 11, the java agent shipped ...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization 5 Under review

Customize the inbuilt report generation functionality in the DTIA

DTIA now provides a fixed reporting interface under "Results Gallery" section and does not allow users to modify it. For example, you would like to add additional columns in existing default table.
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test Workbench 0 Not under consideration

Create more than 1 zip file while processing with the Discovery Tool

The Discovery Tool on TA/AMA may take days to run, depending on the number of applications in a WebSphere Cell. The resulting zip file may be too large to upload and process by the taserver pd/container thus resulting in an error, most likely an O...
3 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 3 Future consideration