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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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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 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

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

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

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

Support FIPS 140-3 in WebSphere Liberty Core with IBM Semeru 21

Existing 140-2 support is becoming deprecated and certification is available for IBM Semeru Java for FIPS 140-3. Futhermore Java 8 we are currently using will reach EOS in 2025. We would like to move to IBM Semeru Java 21 for WebSphere Liberty and...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Planned for future release

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

CMI Integration - Restricting the end user to select only one task while performing ClearCase check-in operations

With current configurations in CMI, with custom query, it was listing all the tasks to select with check box for associating those tasks for a single file, which is not correct. A single file element should be able to have multiple tasks/activitie...
8 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Extend "Role Mappings" in the "Map Users and Groups to Roles for Application" step of UCD to support more than 5 arguments.

WAS supports more arguments and UCD chops off anything after 5. This is causing issues in the deployment cycle and is a limitation to our processes. We are fully aware of how the configuration works in WAS Admin console and WAS Admin scripting, bu...
4 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Under review

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