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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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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

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

Support to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 VMs

IBM Cloud Pak System 2.3.3.4 and 2.3.4.5 provide support for deploying VMs running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 and 8 (as well as a number of different versions of Microsoft Windows): https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-pak-system-w3550/2.3.3?t...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release

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

Disable cleanup of Audit log of UCD

For Audit and Security compliance we want to disable the cleanup log button for Audit log in the UCD settings tab
almost 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Streamlining the distribution of a custom provider in CTE

When want a custom provider for merges/compares in CTE We have 50+ clients with ClearCase Manually creating the provider via settings dialog in CTE for every client costs a lot of time and is errorprone So the idea would be to distribute the custo...
almost 4 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 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

ClearCase4Cds: check "checkedout but removed" files before check-in

In ClearCase Cadence integration, we are using ClearCase GUI to check-in Cadence library, cell, views. Some of Cadence tools remove files in a cellview with unix remove command and not use the DM remove. A check for check-in is needed: If there ar...
almost 4 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Support OAuth token hashing and encryption

The OAuth/OpenID Connect provider relies on database/volumn encryption to protect access token and associated user data, which is insufficient to prevent data breach. The OAuth bearer access_token represents user credential, and should be protecte...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Rational Clear Quest support on UBUNTU and CentOS

Customer is expecting the CQ support on UBUNTU and CentOS platfoorm The trend is not to use Redhat as an OS.
over 7 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration