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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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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...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

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

Display logs in ZOS agent started task in EBCIDC or display nothing

Any ASCII or other (unreadable) data that is not EBCIDC should be prevented from ending up in the SDSF(spool). This IBM Idea has been opened to track the work being done by product development to prevent the unreadable / garbage data, related to t...
8 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Fail Fast External Approval Process

In our testing of the External Approval Process we have seen that it waits until the scheduled deployment time to execute the External Approval Process. We would like to be able to configure it so that the External Approval Process executes immedi...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Include embedded products: BAW and ODM

I like the automation feature but it is incomplete without the embedded products. For eg, I cannot use its features on WebSphere that is underneath the BAW or ODM products. So far, I have discovered that even WAS that is installed as part of the p...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

when configuring gatekeeping rules, we can only enter users and not teams/groups

with the current configuration we would need to add an enormous amount of users instead of just the teams and we would need to be constantly updating the rule as staff moves on
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 10 Planned for future release

Metrics for deployments to show actual deployer

By specifying the user that triggered the deployment, the metrics become much more meaningful
about 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 2 Planned for future release

Enhance patch automation to support tWAS instances installed by IM in Admin mode

Many tWAS instances were installed by IM in Admin mode. During WSA patch installation, the playbook terminated with error message: >>> ValueError: Installation directory is not owned by wasadmin but IM accessRights is admin The tWAS was ...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Audit role to access Log Management feature

On CPS console, on System menu, on System Settings web page, there is Log Management section.On this section, user can update Log Management parameters – number of days to retain log files, Destination address, log files to be collected. Based on ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release

Record Log Management actions on audit log files

On CPS console, on System menu, on System Settings web page, there is Log Management section.On this section, user can update Log Management parameters – number of days to retain log files, Destination address, log files to be collected. Currently...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Planned for future release