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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...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Needs more information

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...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 5 Under review

Improve error reporting for creating objects without teams

When a user tries to create an object within UrbanCode Deploy without permissions to view it after creation they get the following error template: User '$user' does not have $permission_name permission to a $object In the case where no teams are a...
about 5 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Crystal Reports and "Print Record" button functionality in ClearQuest 9.1.0 64-bit client

As a follow up to case number TS004629636, we would like to submit the following Request for Enhancement. Our organization primarily uses the native 'ClearQuest for Windows' client. We use the "CrystalReportsRuntimeForRational.msi" and the 32-bit ...
about 4 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

Enable test authors to move test scripts between packages during refactoring

When refactoring code, it often becomes necessary to change the package structure. When RFT test scripts are organised in Java packages, it may also be required to refactor the layout of those packages. Assume that we have an RFT project and creat...
11 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 1 Future consideration

All comments should be retained when the 'Save Edit Mode' feature is enabled

If the 'Safe Edit Mode' and the 'Require a Comment For Process Design Changes' setting is enabled, it is necessary to comment each process change (in the Draft Process). We usually save the Draft Process more than one time before it gets promoted....
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Change variables values when applying efix at Virtual System Instance

At classic instances we could change the variables values defined at the service.xml when you applied the emergency fix At the vnext virtual system instance this doesn't work anymore.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Enforcing logoff regardless of user activity after a duration

We need an automatic logoff after 12h, in order to enforce our security policies, that makes more efficient our sec policies.
6 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Under review

Enhance filtering in the dashboard

On the WSA dashboard, 'Servers' tab, the filter is by cell name, CVE, and WAS version only, my customer prefers to have filtered by server name as well.On the 'Notification configuration', there is no filter to choose under what criteria to send n...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Future consideration