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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

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Support custom Eclipse options in ClearCase help browser spawned by cleartool man or the "online help" option on Windows.

In the current releases, cleartool man on windows spawns CTE... If the host is impacted by Eclipse issue https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.ui/issues/1704 The help pages will not display correctly, possibly losing the table of co...
5 months ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Submitted

Make Locks table usable for all

The locks table does not load for users if they lack certain read permissions. Being able to identify what's holding a lock is a useful function that should be more accessible to all. Instead of nothing loading, it would be better if at least a su...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

Provide mTLS support in web utilities plugin for REST HTTP calls

currently web utilities plugin supports basic authentication only for HTTP calls and this does not meet our security standards for automation.
almost 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Getting Peak License Usage

We are occasionally asked to report our “peak” license usage. This has historically been difficult to determine because there is no persistent history tracking agent license consumption. While there is a high watermark metric (via getHighWatermark...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review

Enable Stdout Protection – to prevent log files from being overwritten during server startups

We identified the following file, which is overwritten whenever the server is restarted: /opt/IBM/devops_deploy/server/var/log/stdout This file contains information that differs from deployserver.out and is valuable for debugging purposes. Current...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Functionality already exists

Best practices for NTP service in OpenShift

The NTP service configuration performed by the OpenShift installation using the Cloud Pak System accelerator should apply a best practice to keep the clocks on the nodes in sync. The default configuration of the NTP service increases the risk of c...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Future consideration

Create Public exposed API to audit records ds_audit_entry based on event type LOGIN, Read, CREATE etc.

This request is to raise an idea in order to have an standarized API call to be able to this SQL query. SELECT * FROM DS_AUDIT_ENTRY WHERE EVENT_TYPE = 'CREATE' AND OBJ_TYPE = 'GROUP' Kindly let me know if we can get on a call regarding this table...
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 7

Urbancode Agents java management in one click

As we can see there is a new feature introduced in UrbanCode UI starting from v7.2.3 where java can be managed for agents. There are multiple steps to install and set up java for an agent such as first install the java in agent, then set the java ...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Urbancode agent relays java management via UI

As we can see there is a java management feature starting from v7.2.3 via UrbanCode UI for agents.The same way it will be good to have a feature where we can manage the java for agent relays as well. This will help us to upgrade the java of relays...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Not under consideration

This is regarding exporting/importing entire application from one server (UCD environment) to another. While exporting an application, it would be beneficial to show options (checkboxes/radio buttons), such as Export Properties with secrets, Export Properties without secrets, Exclude Properties, Exclude Teams

Depending on the requirements, user should be able to choose what details need be exported in an application. The above mentioned options can help user to choose/ignore the details while exporting/importing application. Also it would be of great h...
12 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration