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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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Additional properties for the UrbanCode git plugin

We need to have more customization in our git config and would like to be able to configure that through the component properties on our git components.
7 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Commercially Support WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Container Apps

WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty are currently not commercially supported on Azure Container Apps. This is due to license validation challenges. This has proven to be a blocker for a number of IBM and Microsoft customers including Legal & Ge...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Planned for future release

increase "Local Epoch" limit

The current "Local Epoch Num" is reported by 'lsepoch' command. The maximum for that number in a clearcase database is 2147483648. This request is to increase that limit significantly to allow more durable replicas.
about 2 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 3 Future consideration

Enable restapi within ITM shared services

Unable to activate rest api within the ITM shared Service. We want to call the restapi to optain data from the ITM sharedservice in order to send some of the information to splunk and APM to generate reports and other summaries
over 8 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 2 Not under consideration

Add support for proxmox hypervisor (KVM)

More teams are moving from VMWare to proxmox virtualization platform. They will use it to manage Windows and Linux VMs running clearcase. Siemens already tested it and it worked well after tuning some parameters.
over 1 year ago in Heritage / ClearCase 2 Under review

Integrate with DynaTrace for health data

Integrate with DynaTrace for health data
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere Automation 4 Not under consideration

Liberty should support AT-TLS "awareness"

Liberty profile JVMS should support AT-TLS "awareness" at the same level that other products like CICS do.
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 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.
about 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future consideration

Optional Description Parameter for buztool

Hello IBM DevOps Deploy Team, We would like to propose a small enhancement to the buztool tool. Currently, when creating a component version with buztool, there is no option to set the version description at creation time. It would be very useful ...
7 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review

Adaptive Connection Pool Throttling based on Latency

In high-load environments, when a backend resource (like a JMS) starts slowing down, the standard behavior of a connection pool is to open more connections to handle the queue, up to the maxPoolSize. This often creates a "death spiral" where the i...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration