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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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Allow custom process/request properties to be injected into inProps for any step

Currently in IBM DevOps Deploy, step scripts (such as Groovy steps) can only access properties provided in inProps by the plugin infrastructure. Properties from other scopes (process, request, or previous step outputs) are not available unless the...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review

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 an IBM Approved and Supported Container Image with ChainGuard (wolfi base Image)

Chainguard provides a commercial service to ensure container are protected quickly and have no major security vulnerabilities. They already have an Open Liberty version so it must work but it would be great if IBM would agree this is a valid/suppo...
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 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

wsAtomicTransaction always enabled in Liberty

tWAS allows the use of policy sets which the customer has used to control whether WS-AT is active for individual web service endpointsLiberty does not have this function (policy sets)Liberty enables/disables WS-AT based on the presence or absence ...
11 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1

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 ...
about 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...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Not under consideration

Custom name for cache names

In several client, that they use liberty in their legacy or containerized deployments, when it use cache store with infinispan or others ( database, data grid, etc...) it will be useful the feature to customized the cache name, becasuse will be mo...
6 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Urbancode Deploy needs a plugin for z/API's

It will be very helpful to have a plugin available in Urbancode Deploy for deploying API's to various environments. Currently we deploy using z/OS Connect, API Connect and the Oracle Gateway. The scripts are made by our deployment team. It would ...
about 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Create a centralized/Global Trigger Management

Managing ClearCase triggers across multiple VOBs is cumbersome, requiring repetitive updates to scripts and configurations across different machines and networks. Each change demands manual effort, consuming valuable time, money and increasing the...
over 1 year ago in Heritage / ClearCase 3 Under review