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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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Add Resource Link Granularity

The add resource link in RAM allows our project to link to test plans and cases in Rational Quality Manager but does not allow us to link assets to Test environments or test suites which our project currently uses.
over 9 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 1 Future consideration

Enable tomcat.keystore reloading without 'restarting the service'

There is an example on the Web of Java code that can enable the UCD tomcat.keystore be reread periodically without have to restart the master server service. But in addition to enabling that capability, a new keystore password needs to be not only...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

Add to the "Set Resources Property" the data type of List of Strings

We have process that must run a step on many different artifacts on a host. At this time we have to write shell code to find all the artifacts on a host. Which then must be filtered with hard coded values to exclude some hits. All this would be ma...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Would like support of Containers for ClearCase

Docker Containers are more and more becoming industry standard for distribution of Software. A ClearQuest Docker Container is already available, so would like to have also a ClearCase Docker Container available
about 3 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 1 Not under consideration

Support of Ansible for install / upgrade CC

ClearCase is available on Linux plateform, and thus, it would be a good idea to have support of Ansible for installing / upgrading Clearcase on that plateform
about 3 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 3 Not under consideration

Allow to increase the size for an existing Short Text field in ClearQuest from

Currently in ClearQuest ALM Schema, size of the Short Text field cannot be extended after a version is checked in. But there are reasosns where field size needs to be increased due to Business Needs. Truncating the size might cause an issue for al...
over 9 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 4 Future consideration

OIDC Provider capability to cache 3rd party token, so claims could be build from tokens directly without relying on LDAP

Although Liberty OIDC server can delegate user authentication to 3rd party identity provider (SAML, or OIDC), Liberty OP still relies on LDAP to fetch user attributes to build user claim. To remove LDAP dependency, OP need to be modified to cache ...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Not under consideration

SAML authentication not available

Hello, Currently our urbancode tools are using the siteminder authentication which will be changed to SAML authentication within couple of months, we had searched on the IBM documentation and on the internet for the process to integrate urbancode ...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Build 2 Future consideration

ACL in a new VOB

The NT ACLs are causing more overhead to maintain I would like to request the following:1. A site environment switch to no have ACLs on new vobs.2. The GUI interface to select a feature level like 7 (so ACLs are not turned on) 3. Ability to link a...
over 9 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Announcement message on urbancode

Hi Team, We have option on the "message of the Day" if we would like to communicate anything to users. If we have any better option like, if we add any message whenever user tries to login it should open window with the message and user has to cli...
over 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration