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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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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...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Not under consideration

I want an RPT setting to exclude statistics for a given Request or Page from the reports.

I want an RPT setting to exclude statistics for a given Request or Page from the reports. Use case is to provide a mechanism to exclude statistics for Pages/Request used for polling (heartbeat), setup, teardown, etc. Specific use case: The solutio...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Performance 1 Future consideration

Want to name VP steps in a WebUI script and show them on Unified Report.

[Environment] RFT10.5.1(WebUI perspective) [Description] Want to name VP steps in a WebUI script and show them on Unified Report. For example, in case of Unified Report in English, a VP step starts from "Verify" word so it could be easy to find th...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 1 Future consideration

SAML SSO

To utilize SAML SSO instead of strictly using Header based SSO. In addition, to have the capability to select different options between Authorization Realm and Authentication.- Allow Authorization from AD and/or LDAP and Authentication from SSO.
almost 8 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

New UCD Plugin for using XMLs for executing Test Cases

System: ePricer Description Currently, we became Agile and in order to follow all the DevOps practices, we have successfully implemented UCD for Deployments. We are planning to automate our test cases using Selenium and TestNG for testing automati...
almost 8 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

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 ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Metrics for deployments to show actual deployer

By specifying the user that triggered the deployment, the metrics become much more meaningful
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 2 Planned for future release

"Quality of Protection (QoP) settings" display box leads to security breaches

The SSL Quality of Protection (QoP) settings (SSL certificate and key management > SSL configuration > NodeDefaultSSLSettings) panel is particularly frustrating to use and leads to security breaches 1- The list of available ciphers is contai...
over 6 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

LIBERTY and configuration validation when starting

1)Liberty read configuration from server.xmlBut if it exists bad configuration it will start without any fatal errors. (ignore the xml that liberty does not understand)It is a kind of “best effort” starting that I do not want.I prefer that It does...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration