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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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ClearCase - Samba and Winbind

Since we are working on clearcase10 installation on RHEL8 servers. As of now completed most of the installation tasks but we got stuck in samba configurations. The RHEL8 server is required samba with winbind configurations to authenticate users th...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / ClearCase 2 Delivered

Keep ClearCase Doctor in future Releases. CC Doctor is very valuable tool we frequently use in supporting our CC Users.

Keep ClearCase Doctor in future Releases. CC Doctor is very valuable tool we frequently use in supporting our CC users across multiple locations. When a user reports an issue, we start by having them run CC Doctor and sending us the analysis file....
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / ClearCase 1 Delivered

Metadata for Teams and Groups

Would it be possible to have a description or metadata field within the teams and groups. Currently we need to manage and maintain an external file that contains owners and approvers for team and group access requests, this can be difficult to mai...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 6 Delivered

Default Teams for New Objects Amendment

We currently have permission issues within our resource tree where visibility and usage is incorrectly assigned. We have several groups that are used by platform teams that are then assigned into roles. We have found that people are not updating t...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Delivered

The window while adding version while requesting deployment has scroll

When we do "Add Version" while requesting deployment, if the component name is too big, it adds a horizontal scroll to the window. This can be very annoying to the User, if they have to add multiple component versions. The window width should eith...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Delivered

Changing the urban code agent cert validity from 20 years to 2 years

When UCD agent is installed an entry 'ucd-agent-id' is created in agent.keystore, by default it comes with 20 years of validity but we want this entry to be valid for a period of 2 years, so that it can be rotated. By following this we can mitigat...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Delivered

IM albd check should use alternative to NTLM

Installation Manager (IM) currently uses legacy NTLM authentication to check for clearcase server process (albd) credentials during installation on Windows.More and more customers disable NTLM in their environment which causes albd check to fail.T...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / ClearCase 3 Delivered

Applications teams are facing issues in importing artifacts from RAW formatted repositories For e.g: When you use raw (e.g. javascript cwa) or pypi format then it can only pick up the first level folder name as the version This doesn't work very well as normally users would have multiple applications in a nexus repo, each in their own folder, So it forces one repo per application or inability to use pull for non java applications. Due to this all javascript, python and non maven java applications are affected by this. Do we have any update on Nexus Repo v3 / Maven plugin in upcoming releases to pull artifacts specific set of folders from raw formatted repositories.

Our applications teams are facing issues in importing artifacts from RAW formatted repositories When you use raw (e.g. javascript cwa) or pypi format then it can only pick up the first level folder name as the version This doesn't work very well a...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Delivered

Disallow Token Restriction None

This idea is to allow us to prevent Tokens being created with "Token Restrictions" set to none. We would like to be able to enforce restrictions. There is also a potential use case where we maby want to enforce different restrictions for different...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 7 Delivered

Need a property to fetch manual task approval date and time

When a manual task is approved, the approver name and display name exposed as output properties in the step. These properties can be referenced using: ${p:ManualTask/ApproverDisplayName} and ${p:ManualTask/ApproverName} In addition to approval nam...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Delivered