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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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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

Assess and modify WebSphere Hybrid Edition to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit Ford, IBM, and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of Ford’s OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, Ford Motor Company is enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native C...
5 months ago in WebSphere Hybrid Edition 0 Submitted

Assess and modify Cloud Pak for Applications to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit Ford, IBM, and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of Ford’s OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, Ford Motor Company is enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native C...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Applications 0 Submitted

Add ddvipa support for ucd z/OS agent

Today ucd agent doesn't have ddvipa support according to TS019560454. For the maintainability it would be good to have possibility to set up z/os ucd agent with ddvipa support. Ddvipa has possibilities to quickly switch over traffic to other agent...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

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

Mandatory Version Selection when starting UCD Deployment

While working on the UCD deployments, we have noticed that it is possible to run a deploy process without adding a component version. This is usually done unintentionally. So the idea here is to make the version selection a mandatory process by ei...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Needs more information

DR.ONE: Support for Client Secret

To add security in the communication between the Design Room server (client) and KeyCloak, it should be supported to use a client secret in the 'server-config.json' file. Example: "credentials": { "secret": "19666a4f-32dd-4049-b082-684c74115f28" }
5 months ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 0 Submitted

Github Copilot Integration with Rational Application Developer

Our organization has been leveraging Github Copilot (a subset of Microsoft 365 Copilot) integration with other IDE's to great affect. We would leverage a similar tool that helps write in-line code and comments, testing, and minimizes reading docum...
3 months ago in Heritage / Application Developer 0 Submitted

Create a centralized/Global Trigger Management

Managing ClearCase triggers across multiple VOBs is cumbersome, requiring repetitive updates to scripts and configurations across different machines and networks. Each change demands manual effort, consuming valuable time, money and increasing the...
8 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase 3 Under review

Role configuration Server Configuration Manage Security should be more granular

At the moment the entitlement Serveucd-corerity has far too much access. In our team we need new starters to be able to view role configurations, team configurations as part of their training but in general I would expect separate entitlements for...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 7 Not under consideration