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Deployment warnings should be exposed as a consumable property

We are currently making use of the warnings feature in UCD where we are marking the deployment with an ucdWarning in certain cases. When looking at a deployment through UCD, it's clear that there is a warning and that the person needs to take a cl...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

Requesting a Linux/s390x build of the Packaging Utility for Installation Manager

We are interested in setting up local Installation Manager repositories that can be accessed over http/https to provide updates for WebSphere Liberty ND and IBM HTTP server products as described in the documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/in...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration

ClearCase CMI integrations should allow setting tasks in the GUIs

The Change Managment Interface (CMI) based integrations have replaced some of the older integration methods with an arguably less usable integration. Feature shorrtcomings include: 1. In the old base ClearCase/Clearquest integration, the user can ...
over 2 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase Future consideration

Upgrade RFT eclipse to support Java 11

We need to move our framework to java 11 to take advantage of the improvements but having RFT still on Java 8 is a hindrance.
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI Future consideration

Current version of RSA should support Visio Pro2016

Current version of RSA still supports only Visio 2010. Now most user are using Visio Pro 2016. RSAD should support the file formats of Visio Pro 2016 so users can import diagrams into RSAD
about 8 years ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer Future consideration

Allow agent logs to be accessible from UCD server UI according to name pattern defined in agents log4j

Currently the "request agent logs" feature from UCD server UI only supports the agent log files in format agent.out.<INDEX>. We are working with teams which updated the agent log4j to alter the log file name to a daily naming syntax, e.g. ag...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

Provide CICS and IMS Testing and Service Virtualization capabilities to Test Hub

Mainframe customers will not be able to transition to Test Hub until protocol support for CICS and IMS is supported
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test Hub Future consideration

UCD automatically handles JCL that exceeds the character limit per line after substituting

While I was trying to use OCOPY in our pipeline via "Submit JCL" step, I had to hard-coded the file name like below since the continuation for HFS Path has to be cut off at column 71, and starting next line at column 16 according to https://www.ib...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Future consideration

Implement ClearQuest User Account Password Management

Implement ClearQuest user account password management including: user must change password on next login, password expiration, account lockout from failed login attempts, user self-request for a password reset and tool provides reset link/method. ...
over 2 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest Future consideration

Make compression feature extensible

Currently, Liberty only supports gzip and deflate, as already stated in https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/LIBERTY-I-144 However, it is impossible for users to add new compressions globally, as the classes are not extensible at all. I think the relevant ...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty Future consideration