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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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Support background license checks in ClearQuest.

In environments using a central (or regional) IBM License key server, ClearQuest login times are proportional to the amount of time it takes to check out ClearQuest (and potentially ClearQuest MultiSite) licenses. This also directly impacts the pe...
over 1 year ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 2 Not under consideration

Zero outage when applying patches

Currently when a patch is provided by product team we have to do complete outage of UCD that includes below steps Enable maintenance mode Pause all running deployments Stop all deploy server nodes Apply patch and start all deploy server nodes Disa...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Include strong ciphers in liberty

We are using EKMF Web, and it uses WebSphere Liberty. EKMFWEB uses port 9443. Recently we received report that the port is vulnerable. Upon researching with IBM, it was found that weak ciphers have been included in liberty even when configured to ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

List of deployments in calendar

We have a lot of simultaneous deployments. As you can see on the attached screenshot, the current calendar view of a day is very crowded. Even in the monthly view, only a limited number of deployments are visible.I would like to have the option to...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Under review

Allow Agent Groovy management via UCD UI

Following the successful implementation of java management via the UCD UI, it would be good to also allow groovy to be upgraded via the UI for agents. We have recently found issues for groovy-3.0.10 compatibility with java 17, which means we can't...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Application Process Required Role

Currently application processes can be configured so that a required role is needed to run the process. Unfortunately this is limited to a single role. We currently have a range of platform roles for seniority in platform teams that work across mu...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 9

Plugin Mongo DB for UCD Deploy

Our application teams would like to have possibility to deploy SQL files to MongoDB database. Plugin should work similar to MSSQL, Sybase, Oracle plugins that already exist in UCD.
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Needs more information

To enable the daily rotation of trace.log in basic mode

Is it possible to enable the daily rotation of trace.log in basic mode.
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Enable Liberty installables download through FixCentral API's

To fully automate(unmanned) Liberty software build pipelines to (1) check latest release versions and (2) download it through FixCentral, we wanted FixCentral download feature to be made available through API's, something like hosting them on deve...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Functionality already exists

WebSphere OIDC JWT Token - Allow reading of Array Strings

Our dev ops platform is PCF (Pivitol Cloud Foundry) using its built in User Account and Authentication Service (UAA) - https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/api/uaa/version/76.24.0/index.html#overview. The JWT token that is generated by this service inser...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration