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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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Allow agent logs to be accessible from UCD server UI according to name pattern defined in agents log4j

Currently the "request agent logs" feature from UCD server UI only supports the agent log files in format agent.out.<INDEX>. We are working with teams which updated the agent log4j to alter the log file name to a daily naming syntax, e.g. ag...
about 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Enable option to build an OpenShift FIPS cluster

Building a FIPS-enabled OpenShift cluster allows for future upgrades to OpenShift Platform Plus, which will position Cloud Pak System as a hybrid cloud platform for Cloud Paks and client-owned workloads. Customers will be able to use OpenShift clu...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Submitted

Liberty thin client for JMS

Our product uses the JMS support within Liberty to publish messages that can be subscribed to by clients (Eclipse plug-in or Ant build) to get feedback on long running processes. Currently we rely on the WAS thin client for JMS to provide this cap...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

New functionality to Restore a Backup to Dataset

The existing zOS Utilities step “Rollback Dataset Step” is capable to restore the previous version from a (automatically created) backup file. There is a rare case, that a single file from a deployment would need to be restored - in this scenario ...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

MSA and GMSA service account support for the ucdagent

Use case: Windows ucdgagent Active directory service accounts are restricted to systems in the allowed "Logon To" list. This is very restrictive in the amount f systems you can have this account to access. Basically approximately 64 systems. I the...
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Future consideration

Liberty z/OS SyncToOSThread support for J2C resource adapters

JCA resource adapters in WAS for z/OS (full profile) are able to exploit native z/OS security features when SyncToOSThread is enabled. However, the JCA resource adapter code needs use SyncToOSThread independently of the wider web application, so a...
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Not under consideration

Implement the possibility of preventing the use of licenses by UCD, when the limit is reached.

Today it is not possible to have control over the use of UCD licenses, as the tool allows the continuation of activities, even when the license limit has been reached. By not providing this option, the use of licenses is always subject to exceedin...
about 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 8 Not under consideration

Mapping of a role in a JWT token to a technical user ID in SAF/RACF

As of today only WebSphere Liberty on z/OS and z/OS Connect EE (which is also based on WebSphere Liberty on z/OS) can only map the distributed user ID in a JWT token to a mainframe user ID in SAF/RACF. This is a problem when there is no equivalent...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Allow to change the encoding of messages.log

Our Web applcation works in the z/OS CICS Liberty environment. We see only "???" (question signs) instead correct Hebrew text in our audit and trace logs that we redirect to STDOUTR, STDERRR, STDTRCR
9 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

UCD automatically handles JCL that exceeds the character limit per line after substituting

While I was trying to use OCOPY in our pipeline via "Submit JCL" step, I had to hard-coded the file name like below since the continuation for HFS Path has to be cut off at column 71, and starting next line at column 16 according to https://www.ib...
about 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration