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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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Remove the compromised ciphers from the Strong list in the Cipher suite settings for SSL

Some of the Cipher Suites in the Strong group are not "strong" anymore as have been compromised by attacks like "ROBOT". We think that they should not be included as default as "Strong" ciber-suites.
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

UrbanCode Deploy to Support Multi-Component Installs In a Specific Order (Where All Components in an Application Share the same Tag) Based on Snapshot Details

UrbanCode Deploy currently supports installing a component with multiple versions in a specific order based on the order that the versions are added to the component in a snapshot. However, UrbanCode Deploy doesn't support installing multiple comp...
about 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Allow useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource being set at application level

This idea comes from case . z/OSMF has multiple http endpoints. One endpoint needs to set useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource to False while while other endpoints need to set useAuthenticationDataForUnprotectedResource to True. Liberty doe...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Possible usage PaaS- (instead of IaaS / VM) to run UCD Application server

Currently we are using Azure Iaas for UCD Infrastructure as below Azure Linux VM (IaaS) with RHEL7 for License server and RHEL for UCD server. Azure Storage account to store shared files (appdata) which is mounted to VM Azure MS SQL as database We...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Validating the contents of /var/plugins in agent directory by the UCD server

The contents of /var/plugins in agent directory need to be tracked as it is verifying only directory names not the file size or modifications by end-user or modifications using any process. It needs to be tracked and validated before every deploym...
about 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Improve support for migration of UCD objects across instances

Tools team is currently supporting active development of UCD processes for several hundred applications. We would like to manage and deploy UCD objects using standard automated development practices. Unfortunately, the available processes are inco...
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Application Process Properties set with Environment Variabes

We would like to allow application process properties to be set based on environments.
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Filters for Security Reports that allows for specific applications to be selected for a report

Being able to filter the security reports down to more specific criteria would be extremely useful for auditing. We have multiple different audit groups with different requirements. Some of those requirements are only needed for specific applicati...
about 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

IBM GPFS pattern type makes use of proprietary GPFS wrappers with a defect

The GPFS pattern type version 1.2.10.0 will only use the GPFS wrappers included with the GPFS product in the next release of the GPFS pattern type. Today, GPFS pattern type 1.2.10.0, automatically deployed with two sets of GPFS wrappers. The ones ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Future consideration

Eliminate updates to plugins when using Workload Mobility

When creating Virtual System Patterns (VSPs), clients can opt to lock the system plug-ins as documented in the section "Lock option for plugin usage" here. Clients who deployed Virtual System Instances (VSIs) using Virtual System Patterns that had...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Future consideration