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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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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 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

WebSphere ND Primary FID (wasinternaluser) should disable in console (not from backend)

We are the internal WebSphere ND engineering team at Citi, responsible for automating end-to-end installations across the global Citi network, encompassing over 10,000 servers. Approximately one year ago, Citi's security team raised concerns regar...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

UI improvements to help connect deployments to versions

Our users have compained about it being hard to see which version is being processed in a deployment. This of course can be found in the Manifest tab but it would be better to see it at the top of the deployment log tab. It would also be good to b...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 7 Future consideration

Keep DevOps Deploy Agent as Display Name for UCD agent service during upgrade

When the V8.1.0.0 UCD agent is installed on a Windows server, the display name of the UCD agent service is "DevOps Deploy Agent". However, when upgrading from a lower version (e.g., from v7.3.1.1 to V8.1.0.0), the display name remains "IBM UCD Age...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 6 Not under consideration

Agent JAVA_OPTS properties back to default values upon upgrade

Hi, We have noticed that after agent upgrade the memory values on the z/Os agents are going back to the default values "'-Xmx50m -Xms50m" on JAVA_OPTS. This requires manual intervention to change the properties any time we decide to upgrade the ag...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 7 Needs more information

Allow Snapshot Creation from Actual Current Inventory During Active Deployment Execution

Currently, when a snapshot is created during an Application Process using APIs such as: /cli/snapshot/createSnapshotOfEnvironment the generated snapshot reflects the deployment's target inventory ("Versions to Deploy") rather than the actual versi...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Automated deploy with snap integration and rollback feature.

We want to offer our customers to deploy to production environments in a scheduled way, with access control and automatic change management. As it is going through change management approval in snap/service now in our case it is allowed for develo...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

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

GUI options for clearcase cmi integration

The purpose of this idea is to add default menus in clearcase GUI (CTE, CC Explorer, Windows Explorer) for the following functionalities: -list versions and their association under the current directory -select a current task from the list of avai...
about 1 year ago in Heritage / ClearCase 1 Under review

WebSphere should offer StartTLS support when connecting to LDAP server for authentication

When configuring WebSphere for LDAP authentication, if you select "use SSL", this forces WebSphere to establish an LDAPS connection with the LDAP server (port 636 by default). This is an outdated mechanism. LDAP v3 defines the StartTLS extension, ...
over 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration