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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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Enable WebSphere ND "Test Connection" to Support Custom LoginModule via J2C-JAAS

Idea Summary: Enhance the WebSphere ND administrative console's "Test Connection" function so that it leverages the same internal logic path used by application code, enabling support for custom credential retrieval mechanisms implemented via a cu...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Add the approver details also in the deployment details report

Our External audit team needs proof of deployments with change ticket details and the approvers. My previous idea of adding description in the reports is being implemented in 8.2.2. It will be great if this approver is also added in the report.
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2

Detailed logging of draft process approvals

There is a requirement at our company that every code change must be peer reviewed (four-eyes-principle). This applies not just for application code, but also for pipeline code. To achieve this compliance within DevOps Deploy, we need to to enable...
6 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5

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...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Be able to fill Secure Values with properties and make them visible

There are some step fields asigned as Secure Values, so when we fill them we just see dots and they are seen as * when exporting the process. For example the Download Artifacts for ZOS External Repo, values Repository Password and Artifactory api ...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review

The stopServer and startServer script and the wsadmin tool cannot handle passwords containing special charachters

When stopping and starting the WebSphere server, or when using the wsadmin tool the user would like to copy paste the password from their password store (for example Keepass). This is not working when the string contains special characters. To be ...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Chargeback and organizational profiles

When an organizational profile is associated with an environment profile, there should be an option for all past deployments that used that environment profile be connected with the organizational profile.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 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

Integrate with DynaTrace for health data

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

UCD Packaging v2 vs UCD Packaging v1 (Creating sidefiles for Fault Analyzer for Assembler-modules, UCD Package format V2 not working properly)

When running UCD packaging v1 the variable file mentioned above (sidefile) is taken care of properly, gets copied to zOS the correct way and can be used as is. When running UCD packaging v2 the variable file mentioned above (sidefile) is NOT taken...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration