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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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Support JDBC 4.2 in WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5

WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5 supports Java SE 8. It should support JDBC 4.2 in accordance with specification of JSE 8 (https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=337). However, the latest system requirement of WAS 8.5.5 only states support of JDBC up ...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to assign "All Teams" to an object in UrbanCode Deploy

Our team uses UrbanCode Deploy for software deployments. However, we have several components and templates that are 'shared' among all users of the product. With current functionality, every team that wishes to consume one of these objects must be...
over 5 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Need a filter for Process Column under Application History Tab

When we access application and History except for Process Column filter is available for other columns like Environment, snapshot, status etc. It will be convenient to also have a filter for Process column
8 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Provide mTLS support in web utilities plugin for REST HTTP calls

currently web utilities plugin supports basic authentication only for HTTP calls and this does not meet our security standards for automation.
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Automatically update CQ OSLC provider with schema revision

The ClearQuest OSLC provider within the CQ CM server (cqwebprofile) is used by ClearCase CMI integration to query about schema information. Currently the cqwebprofile needs to be restarted in order to reflect the change after a user DB upgrade int...
over 1 year ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

Need IBM websphere liberty core images ready to use, to deploy on openshift.

We want to have websphere liberty core UBI images At this time only kernel or full edition are available: ibmcom/websphere-liberty - Docker Image | Docker Hub kernel-java8-openj9-ubi kernel-java8-ibmjava-ubi kernel-java11-openj9-ubi kernel-java17-...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Allow a non-interactive console access to obtain the password silently while uploading the Process as Code files

Context:We are trying to develop an automatic lifecycle for our deployment processes in UrbanCode Deploy 7.3.2 Problem: We get the error "IO error: direct console access unavailable" when trying to update the processes in UCD from a Jenkins pipeli...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 5

API to manage Maintenance Mode

We have the ability to create blackouts within UCD as part of the API offering. When setting a blackout period maintenance mode is automatically enabled, however when the blackout ends the maintenance mode is left on. I agree with this approach in...
about 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Functionality already exists

Allow remote source when debugging in RDi

Provide the ability for a system definition in RDi to reference another system for source code. A possible implementation would be to associate a debug configuration with a system definition.
almost 4 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 0 Future consideration