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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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Alter the metrics.ear app to show metrics per instance in zOS WAS ND

Hi, We use WebSphere AS ND in zOS platform. In version 9.0.5, it comes with a metrics.ear app to expose metrics in prometheus format. The problem is that if we have multiple WAS instances configured, it sums up the metrics and in that case we cant...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

OpenJPA and SQL Limits

As per PMR 13287,842,758 Currently running WAS for z/OS 8.5.5.14. One of our development teams complains a misbehaviour of Websphere's AS JPA embedded implementation on setting the lower limit of the number of results in criteria query. They say t...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 5 Not under consideration

Synergy should have option to display a "non-working" Change Integration if Started when no Change Licenses are available

We occassionally run out of licenses or there are times when a Change port goes down. When this happens and a user attempts to log into Synergy, none of the Change integration shows up and there are no errors or warnings to the user that there was...
almost 11 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 5 Not under consideration

Proactive Toxic combination validation

Hello Team, User level validation while adding to roles to avoid toxic combination proactively Example User1 is part of platoform Mgr role, So user1 should never be part of deployer role. Can we have the check in place while adding the toxic roles...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

RIT/DB stub: ORA-00902 Invalid Data Type during table create

RIT doesn't support XMLTYPE Please refer more detail in Case # TS005389658 Here is the steps to recreate the Issue1. Configure Live ORACLE DB2. Configure STUB ORACLE DB3. learn schema from the Live DB4. create Tables using SQL Query5. Created two ...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Virtualization Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow customizations on the Admin Center pages

For Liberty allowing the addition of some text on the screens would allow to differentiate the Admin Centers so makes are not made. This would be similar to tWAS changing the console identity.
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Provide a mechanism in UDeploy for display (e.g. HTML Report or other UI Table Report format) of currently unformatted JSON text from Deploy Process Log

Provide a mechanism in UDeploy for display (e.g. HTML Report or other UI Table Report format) of currently unformatted JSON text from Deploy Process Log in a more user friendly manner to enhance Developer Experience in UCD. Today it is difficult t...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 8 Not under consideration

Update the CLI to allow easier way to pull directly provisioned users

Currently the CLI in UCD deploy requires quite a few hops to find out directly provisioned users. It would be tremendously helpful to simply have one command which lists all users that were DIRECTLY added to the tool. Currently the 3 ways are thro...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

RSA-RTE: Target RTS: Missing common types to be send over protocols

The TargetRTS only supports the CppPrimitiveDatatypes to be send over protocols without type descriptor (like int, long, float). For Modern C++ application it would be required to also support more modern types like uint64_t,std::string etc.
over 5 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 1 Not under consideration

Add warning if entering a composite state without an entry point when initial transition inside exists

Please introduce a warning if entering a composite state without an entry point when there is an initial transition inside. The current RSARTE implementation of the history feature is not UML 2.x conform, but understood by experienced RSARTE users.
over 5 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 1 Not under consideration