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Pinned ideas

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

All ideas

RAM should provide a detailed disk usage report out of the box

We ran out of disk space on our RAM server, and wanted to determine which Asset/Community was using the most disk space, to help us clean up, but there is no out of the box report to show us these statistics, either at the admin level, nor at the ...
over 8 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Enable Options to store old config backups out of WAS installation Directory during restoreConfig.bat

IBM team in Case TS006197127, has requested below To remove old backup configurations as we noticed the issues with that in the past. However we still see you keep old config backups under the profile please remove them from that folder and store ...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud - manual VPC selection when creating new WAS environment

We're currently using/evaluating the WAS traditional build template on VSI v2.1.0 and have noticed you have to use a unique vpc_name in its build configuration. In an IBM multi cloud heterogeneous environment, it would great if you had the option ...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Future consideration

Custom Health Investigations

Custom investigations (events and runbook jobs). Provide a means to tie together "custom events" with "custom actions", analogous to custom health policies in WAS ND Intelligent mgmt. Gives us a fallback answer for everything that is not built in ...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Rational ClearQuest windows client Auto Logoff

There should be a configurable auto logoff of the application itself. The only thing that are available up to now is a timeout to the database. This an easy click its possible to reconnect to the database.
over 8 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 3 Future consideration

The step Read Properties From XML file of FileUtils plugin cannot read child elements in nested XML

Read Properties From XML of File Utils should allow me to use a GPath expression to read element properties of nested XML files
over 8 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Request to set the transaction timeout on connections to Microsoft SQL Server to a value other than infinity.

Our company has a production Business Process Management deployment which experiences intermittent outages due to the fact that we are unable to reset the transaction timeout on connections to Microsoft SQL Server to a value other than infinity. T...
almost 13 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

Remove Submit button for non-authorized users

In the current scenario, even if a user who doesn't have submit privileges is able to see the "Submit" button. This is causes confusion and isn't a good user experience. Button should be visible only if the user has the rights to do so.
over 8 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Include Synergy and Change Roles Matrix in Documentation

Synergy 7.2 and Change 5.3 have changed the way roles are displayed/assigned. For example, Synergy now has the "Admin Interface" and Change only shows a subset of Synergy-specific roles. (Whereas before, all roles would be shown.) With each tool r...
over 8 years ago in Heritage 7 Not under consideration

Rational on AWS

Greetings! I would like to know if the IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest are supported on AWS? Thanks and RegardsSrikanth BV
over 8 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 2 Functionality already exists