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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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Zero outage when applying patches

Currently when a patch is provided by product team we have to do complete outage of UCD that includes below steps Enable maintenance mode Pause all running deployments Stop all deploy server nodes Apply patch and start all deploy server nodes Disa...
about 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Add endpoint to support license audit

As a product owner I want to be able to automate audits of my urbancode release licenses. I can can create a list of users, I need to be able to include information on the type of licenses that the users have.
7 months ago in UrbanCode / Release 4 Needs more information

Include strong ciphers in liberty

We are using EKMF Web, and it uses WebSphere Liberty. EKMFWEB uses port 9443. Recently we received report that the port is vulnerable. Upon researching with IBM, it was found that weak ciphers have been included in liberty even when configured to ...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future 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

UCD Plugin for GHA is missing a feature to upload files from runner path location to a new component version. This functionality is in the existing jenkins plugin.

After you compile your code you want to push it to code station. Right now you plugin doesn't cover that functionality. Reference your jenkins plugin. You need fields for "Base Artifact Directory",Include, exclude, and Version Properties
7 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1

Provide mechanism for clearfsimport to associate its checkins with CMI tasks in base ClearCase VOBs/views.

Clearfsimport is not just a "one time use" import tool. It is often used to import third party "code drops" and revised versions of tools into ClearCase. (For example, if you are keeping compilers like GCC under source control to improve build aud...
7 months ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Manual Tasks/Approval tasks should support use of properties in comment prompt

Currently Manual Tasks/Approval tasks do not support use of properties in comment prompt. If we can pass properties then it will be easy to identify for which version/snapshot the approval is needed. We understand that in the notification template...
7 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Under review

SQL JDBC plugin can be enhanced to support inline SQL instead of SQL script file

Currently the SQL JDBC plugin step "Execute SQL script" does not support inline SQL. Instead we have to provide the script in a file. So there is a overhead to create the file and then delete the script file after execution. Hence it will be easie...
7 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Under review

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