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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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Using task release for resolving parallel conflicts at the time of checking in objects

After the work in Synergy is completely task-based, the object release only has informational character about the release to which the object was checked out.Nevertheless, when checking in an object, the object release is used to check whether a p...
over 7 years ago in Heritage 6 Not under consideration

Auto refresh settings in CTE

Hi, Is it possible to implement a functionality of AUTO Refresh in ClearTeam Explorer. ThanksSrinivas
over 7 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

RAM: Provide a mechanism to clear queued emails (so that users are not spammed once an SMTP server is connected)

My client, British Telecommunications is currently piloting IBM Rational Asset Manager to manage over 40,000 interfaces within their organization. As part of the pilot they are bulk uploading 200,000 assets into RAM (including approvers etc). At t...
over 11 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 4 Future consideration

User management improvement

After creating a new user in ldap, we import the user in RAM and assign the appropriate license via the following menus. Administration > Tools > Update Users and GroupsAdministration > License Management > Enterprise edition publisher...
over 7 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Add Cookie-based Authentication for Jira plugin

Currently, Jira plugin supports only authorization with username and password. This method is slow and not secure. The password can be discovered during the transfer, additionally each call to the plugin requires a password check.The method recomm...
over 7 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect doesn't support SNI because it uses the Liberty jaxrsClient-2.0 feature and that doesn't provide SNI support in the API requestor scenario because the Java httpURLConnection method is not being used. So please make that available.

It's very useful because when SNI support comes available in z/OS Connect API requestor it can be used for for going to the same API endpoint but specifying 3 different API endpoints in z/OS Connect coming from 3 different stages (Dev, TEST and Ac...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Impement scripted incremental deployments of UCD configuration

Enhance UCD in order to allow scripted incremental deployments of UCD configuration instead of only GUI based modifications or a complete replace of a template.
over 7 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Allow folder and script file name changes in IBM Rational Functional Tester (RFT)

We adopted IBM RFT for our functional test use. This tool is based on Eclipse. For regular Eclipse Java related project, it is very easy to make changes on Folder/File name changes. Since during the development, it is very common for the team to a...
almost 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 1 Not under consideration

Reference UCD properties in application process properties for consumption

During the application process wizard, you often need to choose certain options. An example is the environment in which you want to deploy to (out-of-the-box field). It would be useful to be able to reference these ucd properties inside other appl...
almost 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

Conditional properties in the deploy screen

During the deployment screen, there are times where it would be logical to have the possibility to show other values based on another property. There are two potential cases: Take the following case 1: Drop down 1: list of environments Drop down 2...
almost 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 0 Future consideration