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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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check specific components status in server command

We want an easier way to check the status of an activationSpec programatically. Now we have server command with pause and resume activationSpec capabilities, but we need this to also enable the option to check the status of server components. serv...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Support .NET Core 6.0 Desktop Applications and WPF in Rational Functional Tester

Currently RFT supports .NET applications until the .NET 4.6.1 version of Desktop Applications. Such .NET version is obsoleted from Microsoft in mid 2022 and Microsoft encourages to migrate applications on .NET Core 6.x applications. So new Desktop...
about 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration

Add a "Test" email button

When configuring the email server settings, it would be very helpful to have a "Test connection" type button to ensure the mail configuration works. In the event of an error, exposing the error through the UI (and not requiring directions to the p...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Future consideration

New category 'Technical' for application processes to remove exposure to the user

Designing the processing for our Cobol pipeline we have ran into situations when we need to start a process in another environment then the one that was requested by the user. For example when we deploy to PR we need to start a process in a test e...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Impersonation deployment issue due to wrong onwership on work directory

Impersonation deployments are failing with UCD agent where work directory does not have right ownership permission.When users run the impersonation deployment /work directory is not getting created with the parent directory permissions.For ex: If ...
almost 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Configure AT-TLS-Usage in Mainframe Agents

We would like to set per zos-agent if AT-TLS should be used for encryption or not. Also, the default port of the protocol configured in the URL should be used automatically. Our zOS systems are configured to use AT-TLS for external repository Nexu...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Automatically propagate SAF identity when client and server are in the same cluster

For z/OS, customers are always logged into the traditional environments. This means they have an identity that is verified and trustable. The z/OS TCP/IP stack and the Java runtime support the notion of trusted identity propagation. The client mus...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Add text formatting capability (eg. font sizing, bolding, highlighting) to the editor.

Add to code readability and code comments for documentation purposes and emphasize important lines or blocks of code.
almost 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 0 Future consideration

Notification Scheme cannot be customized per Application or Environment when using Templates

We utilize Application Templates to enforce rules/environments etc... A notification scheme is selected in the template configuration but once an application is created from the template, the selected scheme is locked down and a different scheme c...
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

checkvob should detect corrupted containers

Add a checkvob option to scan the VOB for corrupted source container. That option will prevent critical situation such as multisite replication stuck because of corrupted container. Currently the only way is to open all files until an error is pro...
over 2 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration