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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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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...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Functionality already exists

Enable test authors to move test scripts between packages during refactoring

When refactoring code, it often becomes necessary to change the package structure. When RFT test scripts are organised in Java packages, it may also be required to refactor the layout of those packages. Assume that we have an RFT project and creat...
8 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 1 Future consideration

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 This is an outdated mechanism.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, ...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

DataPower HSM should support RSA-OAEP

The current HSM version in IDGx2 and IDGx3 does not support RSA OAEP padding which is a major issue as the only supported alternative is RSA1_5 (PKCS1-v1_5) which is considered vulnerable. The decryption of an RSA-OAEP or RSA-OAEP-256 encrypted JW...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for a list of WebSphere Application Servers

This IDEA is part 2 of https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107 . it builds on top of IDEA WASINTOPS-I-109 and extend to multiple servers. The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect tr...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Ease the airgap installation by providing a tar file for download

Many of our customers cannot download any containers from icr.io directly due to firewall reasons. There is a documentation how to download the images for airgap, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cta?topic=install-airgap But this still means that e...
4 months ago in Transformation Advisor 1 Submitted

Allow OutboundIp / Outbound Interface for IHS liberty plugin

General Description It is common for reverse proxies to use a specific outbound interface for communications to upstream, which is not the default route. IHS with the websphere plugin is the only reverse proxy which does not support this very comm...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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.
about 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

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