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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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Database Schema Documentation

Documentation on the database schema should be available from the support site.
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Make UrbanCode deploy RAC aware for oracle database configurations.

Make UrbanCode deploy RAC aware for oracle database configurations.
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Not under 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

Fix the issue that's causing stuck of the JWT tokens from the z/OS Liberty server

A JSON Web Token(JWT) can get stuck. It manifests as /zosmf/services/authenticate endpoint issuing a JWT with success RC that is not valid for api calls, resulting in 401 rc. This is a persistent condition. We are tracking two cases where it happe...
almost 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to install Quarterly Fixpacks to the menu choices in the WebSphere Automation tool.

90% of our application maintenance activities are updating WebSphere products via Fixpack upgrade. We do not install fixes unless there is the rare emergency. So the product does not provide enough bandwidth to be considered as a viable new produc...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 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.
almost 8 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

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.
over 9 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Integrate with DynaTrace for health data

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

Getting Peak License Usage

We are occasionally asked to report our “peak” license usage. This has historically been difficult to determine because there is no persistent history tracking agent license consumption. While there is a high watermark metric (via getHighWatermark...
7 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review