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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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Search Z Artifact should support wild card search

We are trying to set up a CI/CD pipeline for supporting “old traditional” mainframe development and then use UCD as a deployment manager. Our z/OS developers are used to be able to easy see the inventory in our different environments (several deve...
about 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Delivered

Search Z Artifact should have better Mainframe support

We are trying to set up a CI/CD pipeline for supporting “old traditional” mainframe development and then use UCD as a deployment manager. Our z/OS developers are used to be able to easy see the inventory in our different environments (several deve...
about 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Delivered

possibility to use a cipher other than SHA1 by encrypting the backup

There are some limitations with regard to private key used with the backup and restore process. The private key file uploaded must be a PEM encoded private key. The maximum key size allowed is 8192 bits.Currently private key is expected to be a SH...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Delivered

Add Identity Token field in Artifactory automation plugin

As part of TS013097304, we have successfully implemented artifactory source config plugin to contain a field named Identity Token.Now we need the same for artifactory automation plugin as well
3 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 6 Delivered

Provide Daily Log File Handler for WebSphere Liberty Profile

Many customers have a need to perform a daily rollover of their logfiles (and archive them on a daily basis). So far this is not available out-of-the-box with WebSphere Liberty Profile. It would be great if we would have/implement a solution in th...
about 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Allow custom location for WAS backups

At the moment backups are stored in ~/.wsa/backups . This is not a safe default - if the directory for the home user is on a small disk, there is risk that the disk will fill up or the backup would fail. The backup location should be customizeable...
11 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Delivered

Agent unavailable status for online agents to allow for controlled agent shut down

At the moment we need to check if an agent is licenced before stopping it to ensure there are no active deployments, often having to remove agents from agent pools to ensure no further deployments start. This idea is to be able to "wind down" an a...
11 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 8 Delivered

Certificate Filter should allow access to the Subject Alternative Name fields

Hi We deployed certificate based authentication to work with IBM Rational CLM products to support Federal mandate (2F Authentication using smart card know as PIV). From past few years this solution worked with no issues. However, VA is migrating i...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Delivered

Search Z Artifact should support a cross-Application search capability

We are trying to set up a CI/CD pipeline for supporting “old traditional” mainframe development and then use UCD as a deployment manager. Our z/OS developers are used to be able to easy see the inventory in our different environments (several dev ...
about 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Delivered

Limit the number of retries after a 503 on PlugIn

Plugin re-tries on 503 error code is equal to the number of jvms in a cluster. We have huge cluster with more than 50 jvms. We want to limit the number of re-tries which plugin attempts on 503. Need a setting to define the limit on the number of r...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Delivered