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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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UCD application approval email notification user need to approve by replying to email

UCD application approval email notification user need to approve by replying to email not clicking a link which is given in email.
almost 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 9 Not under consideration

Expose Deployment genie for API use

We have a significant percentage of our dev teams that use Azure pipelines to launch a DevOps Deploy job, so they never login to the deploy console. We want to let those jobs get the benefit of Genie. If Genie was exposed via API we could add some...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review

Migration from uDeploy Oracle DB(19c) to Oracle ExaCC

Part of ANZ initiative and roadmap, they decided to migrate all the existing Applications hosted in Oracle to Oracle EXACC. Being one of the consumer of Oracle 19C, DevOps Deploy also included in the scope. Currently, it has been tested in Develop...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Under review

Trusted DB2 for z/OS connection for Liberty Profile

It would be very helpful if WAS Liberty Profile supported DB2 trusted connections and trusted contexts. Right now I am forced to use SyncToOSThread functionality but that causes problems with authorization to write to log files. I am working on a ...
about 12 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 7 Future consideration

Provide the ability to assign "All Teams" to an object in UrbanCode Deploy

Our team uses UrbanCode Deploy for software deployments. However, we have several components and templates that are 'shared' among all users of the product. With current functionality, every team that wishes to consume one of these objects must be...
over 7 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Read-only or Role based access on AMA tool

As of now users can create workspaces, upload to any workspace, and delete anything. With a role based or read only access we can better control/manage the data and structure of the workspaces.
over 1 year ago in App Runtime Tooling 0 Submitted

Support JDBC 4.2 in WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5

WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5 supports Java SE 8. It should support JDBC 4.2 in accordance with specification of JSE 8 (https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=337). However, the latest system requirement of WAS 8.5.5 only states support of JDBC up ...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

websphere liberty password identification if encoded with custom aes key or default key

Hi Team, From 26.0.0.3 custom aes key implementation is enforced. https://openliberty.io/blog/2025/12/02/25.0.0.12.html#aes256 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/base?topic=slia-supplying-your-own-aes-256-key-password-encryption Now as earlie...
5 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Provide the function to schedule patch installation jobs

This is part 3 of an existing IDEA https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107 and is built on top of WASINTOPS-I-109. The customer would like to use the GUI of WSA to select one or more servers, display the list of unresolved vulnerabilities, cho...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

ClearQuest install should check for existence of dependent libraries and error or warn if they're not present

Our ClearQuest prerequisites mention this requirement, but the ClearQuest install is allowed to complete (without any error or warning), even when these dependent libraries are not present. This yields errors when running the product after the "su...
almost 6 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration