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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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Have an option to automatically delete browser hitory when doing a HTTP reording

Every time I do a http recording it's best practice to delete browing history, even cookies, in fact RPT tells us so, see first picture. Why not have a check box somewhere on this dialog in second picture
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 6 Not under consideration

Missing source IP in SMF record type 80 when accessing with WAS or IHS

WAS and IHS need to add the source IP address to SMF type 80 records to enable identification of security breaches and also to enable the use of conditional access based on source IP address.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Not under consideration

Allow custom grouping for custom metrics. currently grouped by result only

When metrics are published , we would like to be able to display published metrics as individual bars per Application. However the data is grouped by result only with no option to group by application. Desired behavior would be similar to Build Co...
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 3 Not under consideration

Oracle SQL*Plus plugin: Execute all scripts in the same transaction

Whenever executing the Oracle SQL plugin with a lot of scripts, we notice that it's creating a new session for every single script execution. This is limiting in terms of performance, but it only inhibits certain use cases.
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

SSL/TLS monitoring

SSL/TLS certificate expiration is a common IT problem. The expiration could be on certificates used directly by WAS or by services WAS is dependent on.
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add new option to IBM WAS and Liberty to allow customers to configure WAS/Liberty to not close HTTP connections when WAS/Liberty are sending back response where the HTTP response code is greater than 399

We are making heavy use of IBM z/OS Connect and IBM z/OSMF. We have found that when a request fails in zCEE and zOSMF, the underlying Liberty product sends back a HTTP response code greater than 399 and closes the HTTP connection from the client. ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Not under consideration

ClearCase Base Perl V2 Integration not working with Load Balancing

ClearCase Base V2 Integration with CQ Web entry point gives issues when used along with load balancing. Whereas, when requests are routed to single server, the execution is always successful.Please refer to TS002134059 for all the logs and case de...
over 5 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Not under consideration

Renaming a test in a suite is not reflected in Results Gallery results

We are noticing that Renaming a test in a RIT Project which is added to a test suite is not reflected in Results Gallery results for new runs. Even if you re-save the Test Suite. Also removing and re-add the specific renamed tests does is not refl...
over 2 years ago in Rational Other / Change 2 Not under consideration

IBM Rational Synergy for Eclipse Interface and Java 11

In our company we offer the IDE Eclipse for our Java developers, which includes "Rational Synergy for Eclipse Interface". From Eclipse 2020-09 Java 11 is required: https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Installation#Eclipse_4.17_.282020-09.29 Please off...
almost 4 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 2 Not under consideration

Clients have requested this capability. It would round out the filesystem consuming controls by giving stdout and stderr the same log filesystem space consumption as messages.log

Clients have requested this capability. It would round out the filesystem consuming controls by giving stdout and stderr the same log filesystem space consumption as messages.log It should be possible to redirect Liberty server's stdout and stderr...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration