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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

DevOps Automation

Update Attributes capability needed in RTC Work Item plugin

Current RTC Work Item plugin only lets you update comments and work item status. The plugin should be enhanced to provide the ability to update RTC Work Item attributes.
almost 9 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Update Jenkins plugin to support Base ClearCase

Update the Jenkins Plugin to support Base ClearCase. We do NOT use UCM since we have designed a frontend to ClearCase that replaces UCM. I'm really shocked that Base ClearCase was not included in the roll out of the Jenkins plugin. It doesn't requ...
10 months ago in DevOps Automation 2 Submitted

"GIT views" for base clearcase

Provide "GIT views" feature for teams working with base clearcase.
10 months ago in DevOps Automation / Code 0

Single Sing-On using SAML in UrbanCode Deploy

to implement Single Sing-On using SAML in UrbanCode Deploy
over 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

UCD Deployment Status for Skipped

Our UCD deployment process has 30 steps and current success/fail status is causing confusion with the deployers knowing which steps run and which did not. We have a number of conditional steps that will run or will not run depending on the switch ...
over 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

Control over Scheduled Processes Calendar

Hello, We have very specific deployment windows. For production, we only allow deployments to be scheduled on Sundays at 00:00. However, we want developers to be able to deploy to non-production environments during regular working hours. It would ...
10 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Under review

Improve error messages

Currently there is an error message that can show up when creating a deployment plan that is 'Could not start plan'. This can be of a variety of reasons. It took too long and it timed out, or the version isn't available in UCD. Rather than a gener...
almost 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 0 Future consideration

NGINX Ingress Controller Support for RTAS in AKS

RTAS support for AKS is currently provided with Emissary Ingress which required additional CRDs to be installed at the cluster level. Security team advising to use NGINX Ingress controller as a standard since the hardening for AKS can be done as w...
about 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Hub 2 Not under consideration

In Container deployments I should be able to set my Java Options from the helm chart values file

Currently java options seem to be set in the statefulset.yaml file (this example is for agent relays, but the idea is for agents, relays and servers). Currently I see this: - name: JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS value: "-Dcom.redhat.fips=false -XX:MaxRAMPercent...
10 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4

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...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Planned for future release