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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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Assess and modify Cloud Pak for Applications to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit Ford, IBM, and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of Ford’s OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, Ford Motor Company is enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native C...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Applications 0 Submitted

Add ddvipa support for ucd z/OS agent

Today ucd agent doesn't have ddvipa support according to TS019560454. For the maintainability it would be good to have possibility to set up z/os ucd agent with ddvipa support. Ddvipa has possibilities to quickly switch over traffic to other agent...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

Mandatory Version Selection when starting UCD Deployment

While working on the UCD deployments, we have noticed that it is possible to run a deploy process without adding a component version. This is usually done unintentionally. So the idea here is to make the version selection a mandatory process by ei...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Not under consideration

Allow for multiple Subject Alternative Name DNS entries in Certificate Signing Requests in the WAS admin console

In WebSphere 8.5.5 fix pack 18 support for specifying Subject Alternative Names DND, IP, email values was added when creating a certificate signing request (CSR) via the WebSphere Administrative Console. However, the capability currently allows on...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Suport RMI/IIOP/ORB co-location optimization

If an application uses an EJB Remote interface instead of a local interface, and if the EJB is in the same JVM, each EJB call needs another thread in the Default Executor thread pool because the Liberty Yoko ORB does not support the optional co-lo...
8 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

DR.ONE: Support for Client Secret

To add security in the communication between the Design Room server (client) and KeyCloak, it should be supported to use a client secret in the 'server-config.json' file. Example: "credentials": { "secret": "19666a4f-32dd-4049-b082-684c74115f28" }
over 1 year ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer 0 Under review

New category 'Technical' for application processes to remove exposure to the user

Designing the processing for our Cobol pipeline we have ran into situations when we need to start a process in another environment then the one that was requested by the user. For example when we deploy to PR we need to start a process in a test e...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Planned for future release

Application processes only runable in certain environments

Our setup of UCD for Cobol system deployments we have some application processes that only should be run in the PR environment. It is a problem that these processes are available as a choice when deploying to a test environment because the users m...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 11

Eclipse 4.32 support for ClearCase 10.0.1.x

The customer is one of the biggest WAS customer in Japan, having over 40,000PVUs inventory. They uses ClearCase 10.0.1.0 for SCM. To upgrade Java IDE, they plan to use Eclipse 4.32 and IBM Liberty Developer Tools. But now, ClearCase 10.0.1.0 - 10....
about 2 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 1 Planned for future release

GitHub App integration with IBM Urbancode deploy

We are trying to use GitHub App ( documentation link https://docs.github.com/en/apps/creating-github-apps/authenticating-with-a-github-app/about-authentication-with-a-github-app ) , As a way to authenticate and clone any source code from GitHub re...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 7 Under review