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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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Simplifying the installation process for fix packs and patches

Currently, updating involves installing fixes at the Deployment Manager (dmgr), which only updates one side of the cluster. The second side requires manual updates to each application server within that cluster, which can be cumbersome. A signific...
3 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Industry standard issue tracker for Rational Developer

Rational Developer (for i, z) is a great tool, and like all similar applications, RDi continually has a host of minor defects and possible enhancements. Opening an APAR with IBM for this sort of thing is overly complex and an antiquated sort of us...
almost 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 5 Not under consideration

UCD application approval email notification user need to approve by replying to email

UCD application approval email notification user need to approve by replying to email not clicking a link which is given in email.
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 9 Not under consideration

SSL Certificate Management for Liberty Profile. Certificate expiry Alerting and Certificate Renewal

WAS Liberty Profile requires SSL expiry monitoring and alerting. SSL Certificates are usually valid for many years, and the expiry dates of certificates are often missed, until the system fails due to expired certificates.
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Make Locks table usable for all

The locks table does not load for users if they lack certain read permissions. Being able to identify what's holding a lock is a useful function that should be more accessible to all. Instead of nothing loading, it would be better if at least a su...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

Plugin Generation Utility implement File Serving Enabled/Disabled feature that mimics traditional websphere

This is useful when we have multiple web application modules in a EAR application and want to designate one of them as a default application by providing / as webcontext.
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

[Liberty Server] Two Phase Commit support for WOLA to IMS/CICS

Similar to what happen in WebSPhere Applicaiton server, we ask the introduction on Liberty the two phase commit support, for the WOLA channel outbout call to IMS/CICS.
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Urban Code Deploy Oracle Database to be supported in Cloud (Oracle DB 19C as database Cloud Service)

A project for cloud migration of Oracle Databases has been initiated this year - Oracle Databases migration to Oracle DRCC (Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud). One of the Oracle deployment options is DBCS - Database Cloud Service) where Oracle DB woul...
4 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Configure Polling Intervals

Can we make the polling( WSA to WAS every 15 minutes, WSA to IBM every 1 hour) intervals configurable?
4 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

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...
11 months ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration