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Pinned ideas

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

DevOps Automation

Enable test authors to move test scripts between packages during refactoring

When refactoring code, it often becomes necessary to change the package structure. When RFT test scripts are organised in Java packages, it may also be required to refactor the layout of those packages. Assume that we have an RFT project and creat...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 1 Not under consideration

To pass a property as a required field dynamically,

It will be helpful to pass values dynamically in our component process properties
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

UCD Agent unavailable

The UCD Agents running on the UNIX boxes are going down. This forces a manual restart before UCD processes can be run. The root cause of the agents going down is not known.
about 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Functionality already exists

Allow agent logs to be accessible from UCD server UI according to name pattern defined in agents log4j

Currently the "request agent logs" feature from UCD server UI only supports the agent log files in format agent.out.<INDEX>. We are working with teams which updated the agent log4j to alter the log file name to a daily naming syntax, e.g. ag...
almost 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

"Download All" button to download version placed in an external repository

UCD displays a "Download All" button to downlad the zip version file and be able to inspect it, but it only works if the version is stored in Codestation. When the version is stores in an external repository, it only downloads an xml metadata file...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

when configuring gatekeeping rules, we can only enter users and not teams/groups

with the current configuration we would need to add an enormous amount of users instead of just the teams and we would need to be constantly updating the rule as staff moves on
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 10 Planned for future release

Deployment warnings should be exposed as a consumable property

We are currently making use of the warnings feature in UCD where we are marking the deployment with an ucdWarning in certain cases. When looking at a deployment through UCD, it's clear that there is a warning and that the person needs to take a cl...
almost 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Implement the possibility of preventing the use of licenses by UCD, when the limit is reached.

Today it is not possible to have control over the use of UCD licenses, as the tool allows the continuation of activities, even when the license limit has been reached. By not providing this option, the use of licenses is always subject to exceedin...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 8 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 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 4 Future consideration

UCD automatically handles JCL that exceeds the character limit per line after substituting

While I was trying to use OCOPY in our pipeline via "Submit JCL" step, I had to hard-coded the file name like below since the continuation for HFS Path has to be cut off at column 71, and starting next line at column 16 according to https://www.ib...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration