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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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Inform the owner of the reason for fixes

When an efix is applied to a virtual system the owner of the system is notified through mail. Sometimes these notices may be ignored, if it is a minor fix for instance.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Connect in/out component should support additional network interfaces

Pattern development currently supports firewall configuration through the CONNECT IN/OUT component. This component does not support multiple network interfaces.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

if artifact version associated with snapshot is listed, it will be easier for cleaning artifacts

To troubleshoot why some artifacts are not getting cleaned up
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Needs more information

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 ...
almost 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

support for creating OpenAPI3.1 yaml

a recent update was made to the OpenAPI spec that enhances the JSON Schema support. This is OpenAPI3.1

Extend Compact Agents to AIX

Managing Agents and keeping them up-to-date is hard when requirements change (like switch from Java 8 to 11). So central management of Java versions for Agents without impacting Java installations used by other applications is an essential feature...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

adjust file permissions for the secured-installed.properties file on the deploy server

The `/<UCD_INSTALL_HOME>/conf/server/secured-installed.properties` file permissions is to open, at 0644. Changing this to 0600 or 0640 ends up reverting back to 0644 once the server or the deploy server application is restart. Since this fil...
7 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Under review

Resource template inheritance - Add functionality to inherit Resource template properties

The point with templates, in order to get those to be used as much as possible is to have the possibility to inherit ALL the values you can register in a (Resource) template.I think it would be great for all the users of Urbancode Deploy.For now, ...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 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...
over 5 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement Filtering in notification

There is no filter to choose under what criteria to send notification to whom. e.g. Different teams are responsible for different cells, so notification can be sent based on cell names and the target team. Or some managers prefer to get notificati...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration