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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

Rational Automated Software Quality

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NGINX Ingress Controller Support for RTAS in AKS

RTAS support for AKS is currently provided with Emissary Ingress which required additional CRDs to be installed at the cluster level. Security team advising to use NGINX Ingress controller as a standard since the hardening for AKS can be done as w...
over 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 2 Not under consideration

WebUI - Improvement of data grid and image VP comparison result in unified report

VP comparison result regarding data grid and image in unified report of WebUI perspective currently are appeared as messages ,not compared using those objects so it's difficult to find which cell is different in case of large table. On the other h...
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration

Problem determination log in webui shouldn't be generated When change problem determination log level to "none"

We are using WebUI perspective(RFT10.5.2). One day, we noticed document_root size is 1.39GB and workspace size is 1.85GB. 75% is being used by document_root. Default problem determination log level was "warning" so I changed it to "none" but log f...
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration

RTAS Installation with No-Cluster Admin

RTAS installation in Openshift requires Cluster Admin rights and this permission is not possible for a organization using Openshift platform with a multi-tenant topology Requiring a Cluster Admin for installation of the product is not possible sin...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 0 Future consideration

In multi-user scenario, running UI test in a VU schedule), need an alternative similar to Selenium sendkeys methodology

Running UI Tests in (RPT) VU Schedules to accomplish load test needs. Specific tests include Navigation Actions on Windows dialogs (like Open/Save/etc.) Need a way to maintain proper focus, to select the proper dialog when there are multiple insta...
about 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Not under consideration

I want an RPT setting to exclude statistics for a given Request or Page from the reports.

I want an RPT setting to exclude statistics for a given Request or Page from the reports. Use case is to provide a mechanism to exclude statistics for Pages/Request used for polling (heartbeat), setup, teardown, etc. Specific use case: The solutio...
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Performance Tester 1 Future consideration

Want to name VP steps in a WebUI script and show them on Unified Report.

[Environment] RFT10.5.1(WebUI perspective) [Description] Want to name VP steps in a WebUI script and show them on Unified Report. For example, in case of Unified Report in English, a VP step starts from "Verify" word so it could be easy to find th...
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 1 Future consideration

ExecStop line should be added into RTCP service script for Linux platform

In RTCP service definition script /opt/IBM/DevOpsTestControlPanel/bin/controlpanel.service, currently in version 11.0.1, it has below content without the ExecStop line: [Unit] Description=DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel Service After=netw...
7 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Virtualization Server 1 Future consideration

RTAS Installation for RHEL

Rational Test Automation Server installation type has been changed from physical machine ways to containerized type and we have only two types as of now 1. Openshift Containerized2. Ubuntu K3S We are currently looking for RHEL K3S type of installa...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 2 Not under consideration

Upgrade RFT eclipse to support Java 11

We need to move our framework to java 11 to take advantage of the improvements but having RFT still on Java 8 is a hindrance.
almost 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Future consideration