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Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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Changing the urban code agent cert validity from 20 years to 2 years

When UCD agent is installed an entry 'ucd-agent-id' is created in agent.keystore, by default it comes with 20 years of validity but we want this entry to be valid for a period of 2 years, so that it can be rotated. By following this we can mitigat...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Delivered

DataPower HSM should support RSA-OAEP

The current HSM version in IDGx2 and IDGx3 does not support RSA OAEP padding which is a major issue as the only supported alternative is RSA1_5 (PKCS1-v1_5) which is considered vulnerable. The decryption of an RSA-OAEP or RSA-OAEP-256 encrypted JW...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

WSA to download patches to NAS/SAN disk and mount the volume to the managed host during patch deployment

WSA downloads the FixPacks to the "/home/wasadmin/.wsa/fixes" file system. My customer encounters a problem with 8.5.5 FP023. The size of FP is 6GB, and there is not enough space to download it. The customer's AIX admin set a limit to the size of ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 2 Delivered

Allow custom location for WAS backups

At the moment backups are stored in ~/.wsa/backups . This is not a safe default - if the directory for the home user is on a small disk, there is risk that the disk will fill up or the backup would fail. The backup location should be customizeable...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Delivered

Agent unavailable status for online agents to allow for controlled agent shut down

At the moment we need to check if an agent is licenced before stopping it to ensure there are no active deployments, often having to remove agents from agent pools to ensure no further deployments start. This idea is to be able to "wind down" an a...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 9 Delivered

RTAS Jenkins Plugin - Pipeline Function

RTAS Jenkins test execution is supported via Jenkins build step and RTAS doesn't support pipeline functions to automate it via the CI/CD tool. Most of the teams are aligned towards multi-branch pipeline scenarios and including a standalone job and...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 2 Delivered

Support Open Liberty with WebSphere Automation

Open Liberty currently lacks the Usage Metering feature, and is therefore not able to managed by WebSphere Automation. Open Liberty is as part of our strategy for migration, so supporting Open Liberty alongside WebSphere Liberty and traditional WA...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Delivered

Option to pass parameters to BELLS feature

The use of bells-1.0 makes it easy to develop and deploy a liberty extension, but often it is very wanted to be able to configure the module. Currently the only way is to share environment variables, but the normal Liberty way is to put properties...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Liberty logging hideMessage= parameter should also stop messages being written to messageLogDD=MSGLOG

The current capability provided by Liberty logging hideMessage= allows a message being written to messages.log file to be suppressed and written to trace.log file instead. When zoslogging messageLogDD=MSGLOG is in use, any messages written to mess...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Delivered

Documentation and sample of field "Trusted Proxy List"

Trusted proxy list can be defined by using a regular expression pattern in the UrbanCode Deploy system settings. Need samples of patterns which are accepted. Also a detailed description of this field should be documented in the knowledgebase.
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Delivered