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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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Provide the ability to suppress selected messages completely, simiar to "hideMessage" but causing messages to becompletely suppresed.

It has been found that the writing of a very high volume of messages to the WebSphere Liberty messages.log has the ability to severely impact the performance of a server. In this case, the z/OS Connect product running within a Liberty server was w...
17 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Submitted

Add a "configure account later" option for ClearCase installs.

In environments where key credentials are never written down in normal-user-accessible files, even as "encrypted" strings, storing the albd account credentials in a response file is not considered secure enough. Prior to the latest releases, the i...
about 1 month ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Under review

WebSphere ND Primary FID (wasinternaluser) should disable in console (not from backend)

We are the internal WebSphere ND engineering team at Citi, responsible for automating end-to-end installations across the global Citi network, encompassing over 10,000 servers. Approximately one year ago, Citi's security team raised concerns regar...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Submitted

increase "Local Epoch" limit

The current "Local Epoch Num" is reported by 'lsepoch' command. The maximum for that number in a clearcase database is 2147483648. This request is to increase that limit significantly to allow more durable replicas.
about 1 month ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Under review

AES256 product enhancement for twas on password encoding

twas 8.5.5 and twas 9 doesnt have support for AES-256 encryption of passwords. Presently supports only AES-128 encryption. Need help to enhance this password encryption/encoding of AES to 256 bits/keylength. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was/9.0.5?t...
2 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

Add funtionality to Liberty so Handling of WAR manifest class paths is the same between tWAS and Liberty Deployments

Useful for anyone trying to migrate from tWAS to Liberty using ear files with mainfest class path outside WAR. Behavior difference between WAS traditional and Liberty regarding the handling of WAR manifest class paths. In WAS traditional, class pa...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Simplifying the installation process for fix packs and patches

Currently, updating involves installing these fixes at the Deployment Manager (dmgr), which only updates one side of the cluster. The second side requires manual updating to each application server on that cluster, which can be cumbersome. A signi...
4 months ago in WebSphere Automation 3 Not under consideration

REST API to manage the permission entitlements

Hi Team, We are looking for a REST API which can help us to manage the permissions entitlements in UrbanCode with respect to roles.Where we provide input as YAML file for example as listed below and that helps us to replicate the permissions for t...
3 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Under review

Step to retrieve/read version status

Need a capability to retrieve/read the Component version status. Currently only Add/Remove version status steps exist. However there the no way to access this status programmatically by using a property or plugin step. The status gets used in Envi...
28 days ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Submitted

REST API support for "Forget Agent Certificate" in UCD

There is an existing API in the UCD UI that offers the ‘Forget Agent Certificate’ option for agents. We want this API to be part of the list of supported APIs so that we can utilize it and raise a product case if any issues arise. This feature is ...
2 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review