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Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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UCD Plugin for GHA is missing a feature to upload files from runner path location to a new component version. This functionality is in the existing jenkins plugin.

After you compile your code you want to push it to code station. Right now you plugin doesn't cover that functionality. Reference your jenkins plugin. You need fields for "Base Artifact Directory",Include, exclude, and Version Properties
3 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1

Provide mechanism for clearfsimport to associate its checkins with CMI tasks in base ClearCase VOBs/views.

Clearfsimport is not just a "one time use" import tool. It is often used to import third party "code drops" and revised versions of tools into ClearCase. (For example, if you are keeping compilers like GCC under source control to improve build aud...
3 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Under review

[Liberty Server] Two Phase Commit support for WOLA to IMS/CICS

Similar to what happen in WebSPhere Applicaiton server, we ask the introduction on Liberty the two phase commit support, for the WOLA channel outbout call to IMS/CICS.
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

WebSphere OIDC JWT Token - Allow reading of Array Strings

Our dev ops platform is PCF (Pivitol Cloud Foundry) using its built in User Account and Authentication Service (UAA) - https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/api/uaa/version/76.24.0/index.html#overview. The JWT token that is generated by this service inser...
11 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

ClearQuest install should check for existence of dependent libraries and error or warn if they're not present

Our ClearQuest prerequisites mention this requirement, but the ClearQuest install is allowed to complete (without any error or warning), even when these dependent libraries are not present. This yields errors when running the product after the "su...
over 3 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

Manual Tasks/Approval tasks should support use of properties in comment prompt

Currently Manual Tasks/Approval tasks do not support use of properties in comment prompt. If we can pass properties then it will be easy to identify for which version/snapshot the approval is needed. We understand that in the notification template...
4 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Under review

SQL JDBC plugin can be enhanced to support inline SQL instead of SQL script file

Currently the SQL JDBC plugin step "Execute SQL script" does not support inline SQL. Instead we have to provide the script in a file. So there is a overhead to create the file and then delete the script file after execution. Hence it will be easie...
4 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review

OpenTelemetry integration for the IHS WebSphere plugin

OTEL is the new standard for telemetry data like traces, logs, metrics and events to be shipped to any external systems for enhanced visibility. Datadog currently does not have an integration for IHS plugin, hence the idea here is if IBM can build...
7 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Pass the proxy config with webhook in urban code to integrate with MS Teams

We have been trying to integrate urban code webhook with our Microsoft teams which will us to receive notification in MS Teams about the deployment progress. But we are unable to do that as we need to go through the network proxy and we have no wa...
7 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 5

Increase filtering options in the UI

Hi, In our infrastructure, we have 5 cell names, each name represent all the environments of each one, I mean, the cell name 90app_cell ( for example ) is the same for each environment ( DEV/INTG/QA/PROD), and we maintain the same instance name in...
11 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration