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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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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 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 3 Future consideration

Host an IBM-per-Customer Maven-Repository to download the WLP license files

Currently, downloading the WLP license files (base/core) requires manual steps: Logging in to IBM Browsing through Download Central Clicking through a set of sites Downloading the license Verifying the signature Re-Uploading to our internal reposi...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

ClearCase installation should display how much space is required

ClearCase 2025A fixpack installation/update will stop with an error "Available disk space at <filesystem> is insufficient" when such condition occurs. However it doesn't tell how much space is required. It would be more useful that Installat...
9 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase 3 Under review

Customizing application installation path similar to tWAS

We deploy applications in tWAS today by specifying application installation path to a custom directory outside of configurations to avoid default installedApps directory which is subject to stricter access control, by specifying a custom path inte...
2 months ago in Modernized Runtime Extension for Java 0 Planned for future release

Support virtual baseDN mapping im Liberty to improve SSO with tWAS

VMM in tWAS environments are supporting virtual baseDN in VMM which are then via wimconfig.xml mapped to real LDAP baseDNs via the baseEntries configuration like for example <baseEntries name="cn=externalUsers" nameInRepository="cn=users,cn=ext...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Not under consideration

Keep DevOps Deploy Agent as Display Name for UCD agent service during upgrade

When the V8.1.0.0 UCD agent is installed on a Windows server, the display name of the UCD agent service is "DevOps Deploy Agent". However, when upgrading from a lower version (e.g., from v7.3.1.1 to V8.1.0.0), the display name remains "IBM UCD Age...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 6 Not under consideration

Upgrade Agent have limitation of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer Agent - which is problematic if customer have 50.000 UCD Agents to upgrade

Upgrade Agent feature have limitation described on documentation as: "Updating many agents simultaneously can have a significant affect the server. As a rule-of-thumb, limit the number of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer." Which is problematic...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Allow dynamic resizing of the HPEL TextLog

Customer wants to be able to change the size of the HPEL TextLog beyond the default setting. They suggested that it would be preferable if the size could be adjusted dynamically rather than being hardcode
3 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Compare component versions with different HLQ

We create component versions with different HLQ depending on jenkins build number and git branch name. This results on component version comparison always showing differences. Every element is on one version but not in the other. Resulting on two ...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3

Run Application Process - Add Description as parameter

Using the generic Run Application Process to trigger a deployment on another application currently has no way to populate the description on the process that is triggered. Even passing through as Request Property will not populate the field. Add a...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2