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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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Support Java 2 Security to restrict application acceess to local resoures

This a CAT-I finding for DoD STIG: Below is their reasoning: Rule Title : The WebSphere Application Server Java 2 security must be enabled. Discussion : Java 2 security provides a policy-based fine grained access control mechanism that increases o...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Functionality already exists

UCD to RTC Plugin

This is a request to integrate pulling the differential baselines into UCD with the RTC plugin. This is in reference to enhancement ID 92320.
over 10 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Impersonation on Windows should be possible without requiring an admin or highly privileged account

According to the documentation of https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/urbancode-deploy/7.0.4?topic=steps-impersonation-windows-systems, the agent needs to run with any of the following users: LocalSystem Administrator These accounts are admin accounts, wh...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Not under consideration

Access to ApplicationProcessRequest properties without a full deployment trace

In order to generate custom deployment reports to our release management team, we are required to list up all the deployments, including a wide range of additional data (may or may not come from UCD). As part of the deployments, there are certain ...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Rest API to upload plugin

As part of a release pipeline, we would like to be able to upload the plugin to UrbanCode Deploy through a Jenkins pipeline. Currently, after the deploy, we have to manually upload the plugin to the instance, which is an action that we would like ...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Rest API to query tokens

We are currently creating tokens for technical accounts. There is a expiration date foreseen, after which those need to be rotated. In order to make sure that +/- 1 month we are notified of any expiring tokens, we have designed a batch that will v...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Fix required : Not able to restart RBF job from GUI, when the job is triggered as 'API-Only' user

Issue : When the RBF job which gets triggered from API as "API-Only" user fails, we are not able to restart the job from GUI as "normal" user.Note: GUI is logged in as 'normal' user Work around TSR provided : Use SQL to update the build ownership ...
over 10 years ago in Heritage / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration

The Useable WebSphere Auditing Functions Are Required by the Department of Defense

The current WAS Auditing function does provide readily useable logs to even track down simple events such as starting/stopping an application server via the WAS Admin Console. I would like to see such functionality added to the NDM audit logs. I a...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Obtain asset artifact content using the "Data report" function

The "Data reports" you can extract from the IBM Rational Asset Manager (RAM) "Search" page enables you to retrieve attributes, categorizations, and relationships However, they should also enable you to generate reports for asset artifact content.
over 10 years ago in Heritage / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Display Enum string in report instead of value

When you manage enum type variable under RTRT, the value are display in report as integer and not with enum string value (fonctionnal value)
over 10 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Embedded 2 Not under consideration