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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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The Add Links dialog should display requirements' properties

Using the 'Requirements Management Integration Feature' (delivered with Design Room ONE) and the 'Add link' dialog in RSAD, it is not easy to survey and distinguish between the requirements without being able to view the attribures. You can hover ...
over 1 year ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Designer 0 Future consideration

New functionality to Restore a Backup to Dataset

The existing zOS Utilities step “Rollback Dataset Step” is capable to restore the previous version from a (automatically created) backup file. There is a rare case, that a single file from a deployment would need to be restored - in this scenario ...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

RTAS Support for Openshift DR

RTAS is currently not supporting the Disaster Recovery scenarios in Openshift installation type and partially support via Velero plugin installation in Openshift. However, the PVC's backup and restoring it to a different namespace is quite tedious...
about 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 0 Future consideration

Mapping of a role in a JWT token to a technical user ID in SAF/RACF

As of today only WebSphere Liberty on z/OS and z/OS Connect EE (which is also based on WebSphere Liberty on z/OS) can only map the distributed user ID in a JWT token to a mainframe user ID in SAF/RACF. This is a problem when there is no equivalent...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Enhance Calendar View to display the deployed component versions

The UCD application view contains a calendar view to display the past and future deployments. This calendar view should be enhanced to show the deployed/selected component version - either in the details at the left side or in a hover box over the...
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

The agents table in UCD 7 does not shrink to fit a screen

The agents table in UCD 7 does not shrink to fit the screen when the browser window size is changed. This can cause the actions menu to become unavailable. Scrolling left/right and up/down can help but even with an expanded screen it can be diffic...
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Future consideration

Implement CICS virtualization to Rational Test Automation Server

Mainframe customers need this capability. Without this capability, mainframe customers will not look at RTAS
8 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 2 Future consideration

Udclient CLI should support passing tokens in secured format

Currently udclient CLI does not support passing token in encrypted format so that it will not be exposed. We are currently storing a token in readbale format in a file and then passing that value as a token to udclient command. However instead of ...
8 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

To support AES-256 password encryption in traditional WebSphere

As per this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was/9.0.5?topic=files-encrypting-passwords-by-using-aes , WAS only supports AES-128 encryption. My customer's security standard requires AES-256 at the minimum.
8 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Support for SOAP over JMS for transporting web service messages on Liberty Server

We (www.atp.dk/en) need support for the W3C Standard SOAP over JMS as we are migrating from WAS to Liberty and alot of our applications are using exactly this protocol. Liberty doesn't support this protocol, however WAS does. Refer to WAS document...
about 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration