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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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Versions selected in deployment page does not offer required information before submitting

Versions are selected in a side tab that must be closed to continue but they are not shown again in the main page. This means that users do not have clear information about what is going to be deployed before pushing de 'Submit' button. If we mix ...
7 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 8 Not under consideration

Do not allow in deployment page to select multiple full versions for a single component

Deployment multiple full versions at once does not make sense and can cause unexpected behaviors.
7 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Needs more information

WebUI - Improvement of data grid and image VP comparison result in unified report

VP comparison result regarding data grid and image in unified report of WebUI perspective currently are appeared as messages ,not compared using those objects so it's difficult to find which cell is different in case of large table. On the other h...
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration

Fail Fast External Approval Process

In our testing of the External Approval Process we have seen that it waits until the scheduled deployment time to execute the External Approval Process. We would like to be able to configure it so that the External Approval Process executes immedi...
over 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Problem determination log in webui shouldn't be generated When change problem determination log level to "none"

We are using WebUI perspective(RFT10.5.2). One day, we noticed document_root size is 1.39GB and workspace size is 1.85GB. 75% is being used by document_root. Default problem determination log level was "warning" so I changed it to "none" but log f...
almost 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration

API for generating reports

We would like to have API option to generate deployment reports and dashboard. This would help organizations to generate timely report and dashboard of releases getting deployed to various environments. Details expected from these are mainly appli...
7 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Needs more information

Utility to update ALBD service credentials

For previous versions of ClearCase (<9.x) there was a utility provided by IBM to update the ALBD credentials while storing the password in an encrypted format (CCALBDPW.exe). That utility does not work starting with ClearCase 9.x. Need an equiv...
almost 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 3 Not under consideration

UCD Deployment Status for Skipped

Our UCD deployment process has 30 steps and current success/fail status is causing confusion with the deployers knowing which steps run and which did not. We have a number of conditional steps that will run or will not run depending on the switch ...
about 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

Support FIPS 140-2 for Websphere Liberty (Java 17 or later) on Windows OS

Support FIPS(The Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 for Websphere Liberty with IBM Semeru Runtime Java 17 or later on Windows OS. Liberty has already supported it on RHEL platform, but not on Windows. If not, Liberty cannot win all pla...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Provide a shared service for Flexera FNMS (as an alternative for BigFix/IBM Endpoint Manager Service)

Since v2.3.3.2 of Cloud Pak System, BigFix entitlement is no longer included. Our organization is transitioning to Flexera FNMS (FlexNet Manager Suite), an IBM-certified alternative to BigFix/ILMT as described here (https://www.flexera.com/blog/i...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Future consideration