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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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Restrict which http method can be called

For better security, it should be possible to configure what http methods can be used to access an application. For example, application 1 may only allow http get/put. Application 2 may disallow http options. This applies to both traditional WAS a...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Liberty zOS SAF delegation switch

In WAS z/OS traditional cells, we are using the paramters: com.ibm.security.SAF.authorization = false and com.ibm.security.SAF.delegation = false.The developers use the application-bnd.xml files to map J2EE roles to a bind-able referenced role in ...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Custom filtering or grouping of systems

Provide custom filtering of systems so they can be grouped as business needs or organizational needs dictate.(
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Resurrect the IBM UrbanCode Deploy and Release Mobile App

In our environment, we had used the IBM UrbanCode Release and Deploy App and it was well received. Since it was retired, I receive contact feedback about how much of a "pain" it is for approvers to have to either log into UrbanCode Deploy to execu...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Not under consideration

WebSphere OIDC JWT Token - Allow reading of Array Strings

Our dev ops platform is PCF (Pivitol Cloud Foundry) using its built in User Account and Authentication Service (UAA) - https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/api/uaa/version/76.24.0/index.html#overview. The JWT token that is generated by this service inser...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Improve the Environment Inventory view

For incremental deployments the environment inventory is not very useful in its current form. It lists the versions deployed some deployment information and its status and compliance in the environment. Some examples of things that i think could b...
4 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review

Retain sorting of resource properties in batch mode as is selected in table mode

Retain sorting of resource properties in batch mode as is selected in table mode or make alphabetical ascending sort as default, to match the behavior in versions prior 7.x.
about 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Monitor UCD token expiry

As part of continuous deployments we have created tokens for external users(gitlab,jenkins) to connect to UCD and perform the deployments. we have very large footprint of applications using UCD to perform deployments for which we have created bunc...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

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 ...
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 7 Future consideration

Do not install Microsoft Access database engine when installing ClearQuest

ClearQuest clients are deployed on end users' Windows PC. The Microsoft Access database engine is automatically installed when the CQ client is installed, but it clashes with the installed MS Office, making it impossible for MS Office to operate p...
9 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 4 Is a defect