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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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Trusted DB2 for z/OS connection for Liberty Profile

It would be very helpful if WAS Liberty Profile supported DB2 trusted connections and trusted contexts. Right now I am forced to use SyncToOSThread functionality but that causes problems with authorization to write to log files. I am working on a ...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 7 Future consideration

Create documentation for UCD plugins for z/OS

The documentation of the UCD plugins for z/OS is very poor, so we need to create our processes on try-and-error basis. The videos placed on the community are very good but, the plugins should have its own complete documentation, otherwise we are p...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Add option to filter out "Not Started" and "Precondition Failed" steps from log

We have deployment processes that support alot of different types of deployment types while the incremental packages being installed dont always containing all of those types. This leads to alot of "Not Started" and "Precondition Failed" steps cro...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Under review

View permission for roles, teams and users

We would like a permission setting that allows some users to view role settings, and detailed information about teams and users without needing access to edit them. In our organization we have one team that is responsible for running the server an...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5

Support token authentication (IDT) when accessing a db when using a connection pool

PCI data security is requiring servers to never expose a password when accessing a db. The industry is moving towards using JWTs (for example, a RACF IDT on z/OS) to meet this requirement. JWT eliminate the need to manage a db password in Liberty ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Urbancode Deploy needs a plugin for z/API's

It will be very helpful to have a plugin available in Urbancode Deploy for deploying API's to various environments. Currently we deploy using z/OS Connect, API Connect and the Oracle Gateway. The scripts are made by our deployment team. It would ...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

UCD Settings - Mainframe Pipeline Admin - Server Configuration - possibility to set different settings in Manage Security, like viewing the settings set. Now you are able to change them ALL!

We as Pipeline Admins as well as our Security department is interested in limiting the risk of people having to many privileges in UrbanCode Deploy. Today you see this if you toggle the Manage security setting on/off:Manage Security - gives you th...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4

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 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

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

The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect traditional WebSphere and Liberty servers. It facilitates the application of security fixes one by one on each server.Some customers have hundre...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Planned for future release

Create a logout page for Design room one with an explicit message for users

currently when a user tries to access Design room one without being in the required groups defined in the keycloak realm an error gets displayed with the following message : Invalid parameter : id_token_hint To add more clarity a logout page with ...
5 months ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 0 Under review