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Make RFT recognize objects on popup screen of Edge in both recording/playback.

We are now using RFT10.2.1(RFT perspective and simplified script) and noticed that RFT doesn't recognize any object on popup screen of Edge. This popup is NOT Html Dialog, it's using Edge. In case of IE, objects on the popup screen are correctly r...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI Delivered

Display UCD Deployment Logs to the Jenkins Console

An option to display these deployment logs to jenkins console would be helpful.
over 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Delivered

Add Birt integration for Model RealTime 12.1

The latest Birt integration available was for v11.1. There should be a Birt integration supporting the current Eclipse and MRT versions.
over 1 year ago in Heritage / Model RealTime 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...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 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...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Delivered

Enhance parameter binding in EclipseLink

In 2.6.4 of EclipeLink, parameter binding was selective in DatabasePlatform (Db2). On 10/23/2018, 1st problem occurred where arithmetic functions (SQRT, ABS, SUBSTR, etc) were not bound when they were used. APAR PH06475 created and provided "eclip...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

Clarity for WebUI Browser-Driver Version Mismatch with instructions for manual download and file destination

When WebUI encounters a mismatch with the browser driver version number, sometimes the Click Here automated process does not work, does not indicate success or failure, and does not provide the user with sufficient detail to resolve the issue. It ...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI Delivered

Allow customer to configure a trust store for the cve-monitor https connection.

Allow customer to configure a trust store for the cve-monitor https connection. This will require an operator change to allow a trust store Secret to be mounted and a change to cve-monitor to use that trust store in the SSLContext for the https co...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

Allow a non-interactive console access to obtain the password silently while uploading the Process as Code files

Context:We are trying to develop an automatic lifecycle for our deployment processes in UrbanCode Deploy 7.3.2 Problem: We get the error "IO error: direct console access unavailable" when trying to update the processes in UCD from a Jenkins pipeli...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Delivered

Liberty on z/OS - Reduce the size of the SMF 120 subtype 11 User Data section when there is only 1

Today the SMF 120 subtype 11 record is approximately 630 bytes. When a customer or program product writes to the User Data section then the record grows in size by 4.5x as the User Data section has a fixed length of 2048 bytes regardless of how mu...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered