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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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Update Environment Inventory statuses from the component template processes

In order to properly convey information to the users about a deployments status, especially after a failure, we need to be able to update Environment Inventory statuses from within the component template processes. Its in the component process whe...
8 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 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...
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Under review

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...
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Under review

Application processes only runable in certain environments

Our setup of UCD for Cobol system deployments we have some application processes that only should be run in the PR environment. It is a problem that these processes are available as a choice when deploying to a test environment because the users m...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 5 Under review

Commercially Support WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Container Apps

WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty are currently not commercially supported on Azure Container Apps. This is due to license validation challenges. This has proven to be a blocker for a number of IBM and Microsoft customers including Legal & Ge...
29 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Add zstd http channel output compression

Zstd is currently the best compression available: zstd is supported for a year now in all major browsers zstd uses less CPU It achieves better or on-par compression than brotli and gzip It uses way less real time to achieve better compression Hint...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

For WebSphere Application Server to support LDAP Channel Binding for end user authenticaion

Using Enble the LDAP Channel binding will help us to end user authention in IBM Websherer Application Server and its proves more secure in centralized authentication mechanism.
5 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Under review

List of deployments in calendar

We have a lot of simultaneous deployments. As you can see on the attached screenshot, the current calendar view of a day is very crowded. Even in the monthly view, only a limited number of deployments are visible.I would like to have the option to...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Under review

ship mod_brotli from upstream

Currently, mod_brotli is not part of the IHS distribution. However, https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_brotli.html is available in Apache httpd 2.4.26 and higher. In comparison to mod_deflate, mod_brotli offers better compression with far l...
4 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Under review

WebSphere OpenID Connect Relying Party - Could you please add client_assertion as an authentication method?

Current Situation: We are using the IBM supplied replying party plugin with Microsoft Entra: Component name: OpenID Connect Relying Party TAI TAI class name: com.ibm.ws.security.oidc.client.RelyingParty Version: 9.0 f5192405.01 This combination al...
8 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Under review