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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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Assess and modify WebSphere Hybrid Edition to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit Ford, IBM, and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of Ford’s OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, Ford Motor Company is enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native C...
6 months ago in WebSphere Hybrid Edition 0 Submitted

Assess and modify Cloud Pak for Applications to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit Ford, IBM, and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of Ford’s OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, Ford Motor Company is enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native C...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Applications 0 Submitted

Add ddvipa support for ucd z/OS agent

Today ucd agent doesn't have ddvipa support according to TS019560454. For the maintainability it would be good to have possibility to set up z/os ucd agent with ddvipa support. Ddvipa has possibilities to quickly switch over traffic to other agent...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

Implement an approach to define and manage Requirements record Acceptance Criteria for IBM DevOps Plan

An Agile requirement comprises (or SHOULD comprise!) a high-level statement of what the system needs to do, plus one or more related, detailed scenarios that define system Acceptance Criteria for the high-level statement. The AC's provide the requ...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Plan 2 Under review

Java 11 support for WAS ND

I'm working for an Insurance Group, currently responsible of the implementation of Guidewire Insurance suite (https://www.guidewire.com/products/insurancesuite), which is a World Class application developed in Java. We'd implemented the Guidewire ...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under consideration

Mandatory Version Selection when starting UCD Deployment

While working on the UCD deployments, we have noticed that it is possible to run a deploy process without adding a component version. This is usually done unintentionally. So the idea here is to make the version selection a mandatory process by ei...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Needs more information

Implementing a Zero Downtime Upgrade Mechanism for IBM Services

Currently, IBM’s upgrade process for certain services requires downtime, even in high-availability (HA) setups, due to shared database and filesystem dependencies. This limitation affects critical business operations, leading to potential service ...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future consideration

DR.ONE: Support for Client Secret

To add security in the communication between the Design Room server (client) and KeyCloak, it should be supported to use a client secret in the 'server-config.json' file. Example: "credentials": { "secret": "19666a4f-32dd-4049-b082-684c74115f28" }
6 months ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 0 Under review

Allow multiple CVE fixes

As part of the installing the fix process on WebSphere Automation, the server is restarted after the fixpack is applied. When you have multiple CVEs to apply, the servers are restarting a lot and sometimes that takes more time waiting for the rest...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Resizeable or larger text fields in Manual Task windows

We use a "Manual Task" step in one of our deployment processes and we would like to display the value of a property in the Respond window. However, the window is not wide enough to show the full text without scrolling. Showing the full property in...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Needs more information