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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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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 1 Under review

Application processes only runable in certain environments

Our setup of UCD for Cobol system deployments we have some application processes that only should be run in the PR environment. It is a problem that these processes are available as a choice when deploying to a test environment because the users m...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review

Add ICSF Use Count to SMF 123 records

Add the ICSF use count (ICSF*CRYPTO*INSTRUCTONS*COUNT) to the SMF123 records for z/OS Connect EE API counts. This is important to track the impact of requestor configurations like "idletimeout" values on the number of calls to the ICSF service whe...
4 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

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

support for creating OpenAPI3.1 yaml

a recent update was made to the OpenAPI spec that enhances the JSON Schema support. This is OpenAPI3.1

adjust file permissions for the secured-installed.properties file on the deploy server

The `/<UCD_INSTALL_HOME>/conf/server/secured-installed.properties` file permissions is to open, at 0644. Changing this to 0600 or 0640 ends up reverting back to 0644 once the server or the deploy server application is restart. Since this fil...
4 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Under review

Provide the function to schedule patch installation jobs

This is part 3 of an existing IDEA https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107 and is built on top of WASINTOPS-I-109. The customer would like to use the GUI of WSA to select one or more servers, display the list of unresolved vulnerabilities, cho...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Invalidate LtpaToken post-logout

We believe this is actually yet another instance of a request this customer has made multiple times through various channels. (Maybe other customers too, but we know of this one for sure). The issue customer raises is that "logout" does not actual...
about 10 years ago in WebSphere traditional 3 Not under consideration

Allow authentication with a certificate

In UrbaCode deploy there are two possible ways of authentication:userid/password and token Both authentication mechanisms are not considered secure enough to trigger deployments from an external pipeline.
about 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Include requestor or requestor's group to cc line in email notification

We currently have the notification setup in UCD for approvers to receive notifications for approval on mail. These notifications sent to the approvers are sometimes missed out and requestor are not sure if the approvals are sent as they are not pa...
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration