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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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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

ship mod_brotli from upstream

Currently, mod_brotli is not part of the IHS distribution. However, https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_brotli.html is available in Apache httpd 2.4.26 and higher. In comparison to mod_deflate, mod_brotli offers better compression with far l...
5 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Under review

WebSphere OpenID Connect Relying Party - Could you please add client_assertion as an authentication method?

Current Situation: We are using the IBM supplied replying party plugin with Microsoft Entra: Component name: OpenID Connect Relying Party TAITAI class name: com.ibm.ws.security.oidc.client.RelyingPartyVersion: 9.0 f5192405.01 This combination allo...
9 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Under review

Ability to create Snapshot without environment via Jenkins UCD plugin

We want to create a snapshot that only includes the components we are deploying, we don't want to include the components which are already deployed in the environment. Its helpful since now developers has to manually remove the unwanted components...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Under review

Separate log history (files) and Deployment history (DB tables). We are unable to enable cleanup as both are controlled by single cleanup feature.

To separate, log history (files) and Deployment history (DB tables). We are unable to enable cleanup as both are controlled by single cleanup feature.
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

UCV executor plugin to return valid http status code

This plugin returns 200 every single time, even if the deployment can't be started or if there's something wrong with the json data that gets passed. The plugin is supposed to respond with an error if the incorrect data gets passed (e.g. pipeline ...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 3 Under review

Database Migration Tool

As we move to a cloud deployment to EKS we want to move our On-Prem DB into the cloud as well. This will help to ensure the best performance that we can get. As part of this effort, we want to switch database technologies for cost savings. We bega...
9 days ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

SSL Handshake should not fail if CRLDP present in certificate is not reachable

We have observed one behavior in WAS traditional after enabling CRL. When any certificate presented to WAS for authentication and having CRLDP which is not reachable then SSL HANDSHAKE failed with below exception.Caused by: javax.naming.Communicat...
20 days ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Under review

SSL Handshake should not fail if CRLDP present in certificate is not reachable

We have observed one behavior in WAS after enabling CRL . When any certificate presented to WAS for authentication and having CRLDP which is not reachable then SSL HANDSHAKE failed with below exception.Caused by: javax.naming.CommunicationExceptio...
20 days ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Under review

Agent name integration in UCD Deployment output logs for better debugging

For any deployment log in UCD, if we open the output log, few details are displayed like below under the environment.environment: AGENT_HOME=/opt/urbancode/ibm-ucdagent AH_AUTH_TOKEN=**** AH_WEB_URL=https://ucd-service.lloydsbanking.cloud:8443 AUT...
about 1 month ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review