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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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Liberty on z/OS - Reduce the size of the SMF 120 subtype 11 User Data section when there is only 1

Today the SMF 120 subtype 11 record is approximately 630 bytes. When a customer or program product writes to the User Data section then the record grows in size by 4.5x as the User Data section has a fixed length of 2048 bytes regardless of how mu...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Liberty Collective security must support SAF keyrings and certificates that SSA will furnish, with no requirements for Subje

RFE REQUIREMENT 1: DESCRIPTION: Collective security requires certificates and keystores outside the scope of the configuration specified by the server.xml. The certificates require specific Subject Distinguished Name (DN) values as a way to commun...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

add comment to ucv gatekeeping email that say click on version url

current email has 2 urls and the one for gatekeepers need to access is version url. So it would be nice to let recipients of email know which link to access
about 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 3 Future consideration

Mass deployment of efixes

In the current system an efix can only be applied to a single virtual system. It is impossible to apply an efix on multiple systems or all systems in a cloud group or environment profile.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

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

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

Add ICSF Use Count to SMF 123 records

Add the ICSF use count (ICSF*CRYPTO*INSTRUCTONS*COUNT) to the SMF123 records for z/OS Connect EE API counts. This is important to track the impact of requestor configurations like "idletimeout" values on the number of calls to the ICSF service whe...
7 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 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

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