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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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Provide "summary view" of WebSphere Automation registered servers, total servers, number of cores, etc

Since WebSphere servers are registered with WebSphere Automation, and WebSphere Automation is licensed on the total number of cores available to the registered WebSphere servers, we should provide a "summary page" that shows the total number of re...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

when configuring gatekeeping rules, we can only enter users and not teams/groups

with the current configuration we would need to add an enormous amount of users instead of just the teams and we would need to be constantly updating the rule as staff moves on
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 10 Planned for future release

Deployment warnings should be exposed as a consumable property

We are currently making use of the warnings feature in UCD where we are marking the deployment with an ucdWarning in certain cases. When looking at a deployment through UCD, it's clear that there is a warning and that the person needs to take a cl...
almost 2 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Add a "Test" email button

When configuring the email server settings, it would be very helpful to have a "Test connection" type button to ensure the mail configuration works. In the event of an error, exposing the error through the UI (and not requiring directions to the p...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Future consideration

Add text formatting capability (eg. font sizing, bolding, highlighting) to the editor.

Add to code readability and code comments for documentation purposes and emphasize important lines or blocks of code.
over 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 0 Future consideration

Select only ONLINE agents in agent pools

OFFLINE agents are automatically excluded from selection in agent pools. This provides an important high availability function for pools. Agents in ERROR mode, however are not excluded, which can lead to deployment failure.
almost 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Need an option to block/unblock an agent in uDeploy

Hi Team, We need a feature or an option in UCDeploy to block/unblock an agent from connecting to the UDeploy server. Could you help us with information on this. Regards,Purshi
about 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Upgrade RFT eclipse to support Java 11

We need to move our framework to java 11 to take advantage of the improvements but having RFT still on Java 8 is a hindrance.
about 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Future 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...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Notification Scheme cannot be customized per Application or Environment when using Templates

We utilize Application Templates to enforce rules/environments etc... A notification scheme is selected in the template configuration but once an application is created from the template, the selected scheme is locked down and a different scheme c...
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration