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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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LTPA token timeout should respond to user activity

This is a requirement for ISO 27001 certification. This type of functionality is required by many security teams, and it is really hard to justify, explain, and get security deviations. It would be useful because users would not be harassed by fre...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Acquire Lock - Update Process Step to allow a Switch if Lock exists

This request is to update the Acquire Lock process step to allow branching paths depending on if the lock already exists. The general idea is, if the lock has been created by another process, we would like a way to fail out the process. This would...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2

Create more than 1 zip file while processing with the Discovery Tool

The Discovery Tool on TA/AMA may take days to run, depending on the number of applications in a WebSphere Cell. The resulting zip file may be too large to upload and process by the taserver pd/container thus resulting in an error, most likely an O...
4 months ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Planned for future release

Microprofile openapi to use other than the default host

Standard web applications can use virtual hosts in Liberty but feature WEBs such as microprofile openapi can not use the virtual hosts. The requests are being made using the default host name. Could you please make it possible to use the virtual h...
12 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Output Log UI should allow downloading logs from all servers in the cluster (HA)

In our HA installation of IBM DevOps Deploy (2 front-end nodes + 2 back-end nodes behind load balancers), the UI option Settings → Output Log only displays and downloads deployserver.out from a single node in the cluster. The documentation states ...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 6

generate .settings files for generated CDT projects to hold things like explicit encoding set

eliminates workspace problem markers, either hardcode to UTF-8, or have encoding be something driven by some .tcjs value selectable from TC editor
4 months ago in Heritage / Model RealTime 0 Submitted

AI Extension to different models like Copilot, Gemini

Need to have the AI extension for Devops Deploy to other models like Copilot and Gemini. We use Copilot inside organization and this will help us explore the feature and benefits integrated. Thanks
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Under review

Compare component versions with different HLQ

We create component versions with different HLQ depending on jenkins build number and git branch name. This results on component version comparison always showing differences. Every element is on one version but not in the other. Resulting on two ...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3

DevOps Deploy should allow users to manage notification templates from the UI

Currently, someone needs to log on to the server to find the notification templates in order to view/create/edit/delete notification templates. The server also needs to be restarted in order for any changes to take effect. It would be very helpful...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3

Remove broken references on model level

For broken references that have no supplier, it should be possible to remove them on a model level, instead of having to remove them one by one.
4 months ago in Heritage / Model RealTime 0 Submitted