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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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ClearQuest Web Server Using Tomcat Implementation

Implement ClearQuest web services using Apache Tomcat, including the companion Report Launcher. (1) ClearCase and ClearQuest are often deployed together and should offer parallel implementation solutions. In 2018, the ClearCase/ClearQuest roadmap ...
almost 6 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 3 Future consideration

Websphere Audit log format

System: WebSphere Application ServerActor: User needing improvement on existing feature Description: We are using WAS 8.5.5 and 9.0. The audit log generated by WebSphere is in binary format which is not readable by QRadar. Request to generate the ...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Future consideration

A Robust Cleanup Option to Remove Old Versions and Records No Longer Needed to Optimize Storage and Usage

Concern: Over time, the system keeps accumulating old versions and release records that are no longer required. These records are not used for deployments and have no business value anymore, yet they continue to consume storage and system resource...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 3

Observed a negative value for %D and a dash(-) for %{R}W in the NCSA access log

In the customer's WASv8.5.5.20 system, they have observed a negative value for %D and a dash(-) for %{R}W in the NCSA access log. Referring the WAS code, it just subtract System.currentTimeMillis from the previous System.currentTimeMillis. We were...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Add the hability to filter by application components in the main Calendar windows

Despite it is possible to see each componente calendar inside the process menu, it would be useful to be able to filter by component also in the main calendar
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Under review

Create additional rules to DevOps Test Embedded Code Review

Rule 1: following operators ( +=, -=, *=, /=, %=, <<=, >>=, &=, ^=, |= ) should never be used.Rules 2: The rules check that open and closing brackets are always the unique non space character on the line.Rule 3: The rule verify tha...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Embedded 0 Submitted

Require Ansible playbooks to deploy and manage WAS ND deployments

Client is using CP4WAIOPS Infrastrututure Management to deploy and manage WAS ND. When they used the tooling in the past they had used Chef cookbooks to build and deploy WAS ND systems. Since IBM Purchaed RH, the CloudPak has indicated that Chef i...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Jakarta EE Spec for Apache Kafka Similar to Jakarta Messaging JMS

This idea is really an evolution of where I see JEE needing to add capabilities which are not present compared to other competitive solution libraries like https://spring.io/projects/spring-kafka. OpenLiberty (https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/li...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

RIT/RTVS needs to adopt new version of Oracle JDBC driver ojdbc17 instead of current ojdbc8

For the use case of using Oracle database as a results database of RIT/RTVS 11.0.x, when applying SSL JDBC connection instead of plain TCP, below error occurred. Apr 23, 2026 6:40:05 AM com.ghc.jdbc.oracle.OracleTableUtils saveLobSEVERE: Failed to...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization 0

Plugin Mongo DB for UCD Deploy

Our application teams would like to have possibility to deploy SQL files to MongoDB database. Plugin should work similar to MSSQL, Sybase, Oracle plugins that already exist in UCD.
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Not under consideration