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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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"Download All" button to download version placed in an external repository

UCD displays a "Download All" button to downlad the zip version file and be able to inspect it, but it only works if the version is stored in Codestation. When the version is stores in an external repository, it only downloads an xml metadata file...
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future 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

Separate log history (files) and Deployment history (DB tables). We are unable to enable cleanup as both are controlled by single cleanup feature.

To separate, log history (files) and Deployment history (DB tables). We are unable to enable cleanup as both are controlled by single cleanup feature.
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review

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

Ease the airgap installation by providing a tar file for download

Many of our customers cannot download any containers from icr.io directly due to firewall reasons. There is a documentation how to download the images for airgap, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cta?topic=install-airgap But this still means that e...
5 months ago in Transformation Advisor 1 Submitted

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

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.
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Toggle to Hide Skipped Steps in Deployment Log

Add a toggle option to hide deployment steps that haven't been executed for any reason (versions/flow design/components/etc) at the top of the deployment log page. Additionally, store this as a user preference so customers don't continuously need ...
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 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 2 Future consideration

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