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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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Provide property to allow skipping of group membership lookup during login

We see a 20-120 second delay during login to our BAW (Business Automation Workflow) application which uses WebSphere 8.5.5.xTrace indicates the time is consumed before ever reaching the application, by WebSphere security code doing full traversal ...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

SOAP Call (JAX-WS) with LTPA from Liberty

We need support for LTPA when calling a SOAP Service from an application running on Liberty (please see use case below).
about 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Assess and modify WebSphere Hybrid Edition to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit Ford, IBM, and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of Ford’s OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, Ford Motor Company is enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native C...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Hybrid Edition 0 Submitted

Assess and modify Cloud Pak for Applications to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit Ford, IBM, and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of Ford’s OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, Ford Motor Company is enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native C...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Applications 0 Submitted

Add ddvipa support for ucd z/OS agent

Today ucd agent doesn't have ddvipa support according to TS019560454. For the maintainability it would be good to have possibility to set up z/os ucd agent with ddvipa support. Ddvipa has possibilities to quickly switch over traffic to other agent...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

Add a feature to allow connection between UCD and a suitable data warehouse to archive and retrieve history table.

Add a feature to allow connection between UCD and a suitable data warehouse to archive and retrieve history table. We don’t want to perform archive outside UCD interface (meaning directly from UCD DB to Solix), as data once moved out – auditors qu...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Mandatory Version Selection when starting UCD Deployment

While working on the UCD deployments, we have noticed that it is possible to run a deploy process without adding a component version. This is usually done unintentionally. So the idea here is to make the version selection a mandatory process by ei...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Not under consideration

DR.ONE: Support for Client Secret

To add security in the communication between the Design Room server (client) and KeyCloak, it should be supported to use a client secret in the 'server-config.json' file. Example: "credentials": { "secret": "19666a4f-32dd-4049-b082-684c74115f28" }
over 1 year ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 0 Under review

Object Archival

This idea is to allow the archival of objects in UrbanCode such as, Applications, Environments, Components and Resources. We often get requests from users to remove objects that are no longer required however these objects need to be maintained du...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Future consideration

Adding Snapshot and Description of the deployment request process columns in the Reports- Deployment Detail

Our External audit team needs proof of deployments where they verify the snapshot deployed in QA environment of an application is the same deployed in Production environment. Also, we always input the change ticket number in the description sectio...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2