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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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Urgent Need for a Distinct Separation Between Auditor Authority and Administrator Authority

WebSphere Application Server users need a Distinct Separation Between Auditor Authority and Administrator Authority Category: Security, Auditing, and Compliance Executive Summary: The current WebSphere Application Server design allows users such a...
2 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Under review

Ability to Set tomcat.keystore.password During Unattended Installation

My client uses Puppet to automate the installation of DevOps Deploy instances. Currently, after installation, they need to manually update the secured-installed.properties file to modify the tomcat.keystore.password entry. This post-installation s...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

Create an IBM Approved and Supported Container Image with ChainGuard (wolfi base Image)

Chainguard provides a commercial service to ensure container are protected quickly and have no major security vulnerabilities. They already have an Open Liberty version so it must work but it would be great if IBM would agree this is a valid/suppo...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

Implement an approach to define and manage Requirements record Acceptance Criteria for IBM DevOps Plan

An Agile requirement comprises (or SHOULD comprise!) a high-level statement of what the system needs to do, plus one or more related, detailed scenarios that define system Acceptance Criteria for the high-level statement. The AC's provide the requ...
4 months ago in DevOps Automation / Plan 2 Under review

Github Copilot Integration with Rational Application Developer

Our organization has been leveraging Github Copilot (a subset of Microsoft 365 Copilot) integration with other IDE's to great affect. We would leverage a similar tool that helps write in-line code and comments, testing, and minimizes reading docum...
5 months ago in Heritage / Application Developer 0 Under review

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

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

Use alternate mechanism to call ClearCase from the cmi_migrate.pl script.

The current CMI migration script repetively calls the "cleartool" command to perform operations. In environments where process creation or license checks are "expensive" in terms of time, this has a significant negative impact on migration speed/p...
5 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase 1 Under review

Modify CMI association to add ONE changeset item at a time instead of sending the whole changeset every time.

The default CMI integration behavior when adding a new task association appears to be: Download the defect/task's entire changeset Validate that changeset Add/append the new items to the changeset. Post the ENTIRE modified list to the CMI provider...
5 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase 1 Under review

Create default ClearCase scheduled to run clmutil cmirepair.

The CC CMI integration is best described as a "loose" integration where the links in the CMI provider may become "queued" instead of being immediately applied. The "queuing" can be done by placing information in the cmi_repair_log file. This file ...
5 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase 1 Under review