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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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To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for a list of WebSphere Application Servers

The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect traditional WebSphere and Liberty servers. It facilitates the application of security fixes one by one on each server.Some customers have hundre...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Planned for future release

Add a Coverage justification in Devopps Test Embedded

Users need an additional option to add justification for unreachable code. The justification shall not be based on code modification but on external data secured by file checksums.
3 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / RealTime 1 Future consideration

Proxy needed for Oracle Forms 12c

Since the AppPoint Oracle Forms proxy is no longer supported by IBM (as of January 1, 2017) - we are requesting a proxy be built into RFT to allow the automation of Oracle Forms. Right now RFT's object inspector can't recognize Oracle forms embedd...
about 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Not under consideration

Object Archival

This idea is to allow the archival of objects in UrbanCode such as, Applications, Environments, Components and Resources. We often get requests from users to remove objects that are no longer required however these objects need to be maintained du...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Needs more information

UUCD 7 UI has a lot of white space and less information can fit in a window

We're updating from UCD 6.2 to 7.1. The UI has changed a lot and we are still getting used to it, but there are a few things worth mentioning. In this case it's about how much information can fit in a window. Not as much as in 6.2! I think the wor...
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

SERVERWLM Support for z/OS Connect

In order to achieve high availability in z/OS Connect, the product documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-sysplex-distributor) recommends use of a DVIPA to distribute workload between multiple LPAR...
12 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Industry standard issue tracker for Rational Developer

Rational Developer (for i, z) is a great tool, and like all similar applications, RDi continually has a host of minor defects and possible enhancements. Opening an APAR with IBM for this sort of thing is overly complex and an antiquated sort of us...
almost 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 5 Not under consideration

Changing the urban code agent cert validity from 20 years to 2 years

When UCD agent is installed an entry 'ucd-agent-id' is created in agent.keystore, by default it comes with 20 years of validity but we want this entry to be valid for a period of 2 years, so that it can be rotated. By following this we can mitigat...
12 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3

Support for the SAN attribute in the CSR request when using wsadmin or the WAS admin console.

We want to be able to use the SAN attribute in PKI keys/certificates. This is needed to pass host verification during the TLS handshake if the certificate is to be used by processes on different hosts, e.g., multiple WAS application server process...
over 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

SSL Certificate Management for Liberty Profile. Certificate expiry Alerting and Certificate Renewal

WAS Liberty Profile requires SSL expiry monitoring and alerting. SSL Certificates are usually valid for many years, and the expiry dates of certificates are often missed, until the system fails due to expired certificates.
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration