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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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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

upload cmapi jars to Maven repository

This request is to upload clearcase CMAPI jars into Maven2 repository (https://mvnrepository.com/repos/central) That would improve the visibility and usability of clearcase API to java programmers.
over 1 year ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Not under consideration

Add formatting options for the MOTD in system settings

Add basic formatting, perhaps in Markdown, for the MOTD box in system settings. New LineBoldLinks I think that these are the most relevant, but it might be easier to just implement a full markdown rendering engine.The current way I get a new line ...
4 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Under review

Increase filtering options in the UI

Hi, In our infrastructure, we have 5 cell names, each name represent all the environments of each one, I mean, the cell name 90app_cell ( for example ) is the same for each environment ( DEV/INTG/QA/PROD), and we maintain the same instance name in...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 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

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...
5 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review

Extend the scope of the maxFiles parameter in logging configuration

As per case TS015417399 when configuring <accessLogging> with maxFiles in WebSphere Liberty the server only deletes old logs of more that maxFiles logs have been created by the currently running process. The current behavior makes the maxFil...
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Display logs in ZOS agent started task in EBCIDC or display nothing

Any ASCII or other (unreadable) data that is not EBCIDC should be prevented from ending up in the SDSF(spool). This IBM Idea has been opened to track the work being done by product development to prevent the unreadable / garbage data, related to t...
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Introduce timeout for process steps

- We recently saw a case where a deployment process was stuck at one particular step for 3+ hours due to some issues. - It's a good idea to introduce a new step property "timeout" that can kill the step that is stuck after the mentioned timeout pe...
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2

New category 'Technical' for application processes to remove exposure to the user

Designing the processing for our Cobol pipeline we have ran into situations when we need to start a process in another environment then the one that was requested by the user. For example when we deploy to PR we need to start a process in a test e...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Needs more information