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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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Liberty API to validate IDP metadata for SAML Configuration

Currently while configuring SAML in ICP , users have to upload IDP metadata as one of the step, Currently ICP does not validate this metadata, validating this would mean ICP has to maintain its own version of SAML schema. It would be better if Lib...
about 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Enable Options to store old config backups out of WAS installation Directory during restoreConfig.bat

IBM team in Case TS006197127, has requested below To remove old backup configurations as we noticed the issues with that in the past. However we still see you keep old config backups under the profile please remove them from that folder and store ...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Keep "Use View Profiles for Creating Views" selection across ClearCase updates

Our ClearCase environment uses View Profiles and therefore has the "Use View Profiles for Creating Views" checkbox selected for normal operation. Every time that a ClearCase update is done via Installation Manager, the "Use View Profiles for Creat...
about 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Not under consideration

Keep non-default MVFS Logging Path value across ClearCase updates

Our ClearCase environment has a non-default value configured for the MVFS Logging Path. Every time that a ClearCase update is done via Installation Manager, the MVFS Logging Path value is reset to the default value instead of keeping our configure...
about 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud - manual VPC selection when creating new WAS environment

We're currently using/evaluating the WAS traditional build template on VSI v2.1.0 and have noticed you have to use a unique vpc_name in its build configuration. In an IBM multi cloud heterogeneous environment, it would great if you had the option ...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Future consideration

Custom Health Investigations

Custom investigations (events and runbook jobs). Provide a means to tie together "custom events" with "custom actions", analogous to custom health policies in WAS ND Intelligent mgmt. Gives us a fallback answer for everything that is not built in ...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

'Compare With'->'Each Other' for absorbed model fragments.

Model fragments have Compare With->Each Other however this option is missing for absorbed model fragments. As a workaround: Refactor->Create Fragment for both fragments does allow Compare With->Each Other
about 6 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 1 Not under consideration

XSLD - use LDAP groups to authorize users on grids and maps

Using XSLD we need to configure LDAP groups in order to administer XSLD. Now we can only configure internal groups to manage authorization on grids. The goal wiil bee use LDAP groups instead internal groups
about 6 years ago in WebSphere eXtreme Scale 0 Not under consideration

Unique identifier for GUI-elements in HTML

For the GUI in web, we implement an extension to customize the UI a little bit.For example some ClearQuest-Ids become linkable directly or some pop-up-windows interact to special value-changes. For implementing such functionality we have to parse ...
about 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

Resources Agents page to have the option to filter the agent list by relay column value 'None'

Currently 7.1.x and 7.2.x version do not have the option on the agents list in UI to retrieve the agents connected directly to server. So it is not possible to select altogether all the agents without a relay and manage these agents at once (defin...
about 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration