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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

DevOps Automation

RFT/RPT adapter for RQM should be able to support shared resources in repositories

When running RFT test scrips from RQM and the RFT test scripts were at a shared location like CCM, the RFT tests would NOT be executed and there was a "projectnotfound" in RFT adapter console. In the user's case, the RFT scripts were shared at CCM...
almost 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 4 Planned for future release

Expose the manual task approved user as a variable

Presently there is no variable that is exposed that contains the user who approved a manual task. Please expose a variable like ${p:approved.user.name} so that we can use the value for other purposes within the process flow.
almost 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Display Component Version status in environment Overview

For the end-user the STATUS of the component versions is important to see. As of today, the environment diagram does not present this information to the end user - see screenshot. This is especially useful when using incremental component versions...
almost 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future consideration

RIT Database DB2 Mutual SSL / Certificate Authentication

When defining a database connection in Physical View for a z/OS DB2 database, it's currently not possible to configure Mutual SSL / Certificate Authentication as described for example on this page: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=sudsdj...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Workbench 1 Needs more information

Test the assembly code in Rational Test Real Time(RTRT).

Hi, Can we test the assembly code in (Rational Test Real Time)RTRT. If not can you add that feature in later versions. Thank you
almost 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Embedded 3 Not under consideration

Mass cancel offender deployments in Dashboard

We would like to have possibilities to cancel many deployments (100, 200, 300, 500+) with one click from UCD dashboard.
almost 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Use “Record Exists” guard condition with list tag elements

When developing stubs, Rational Integration Tester does not provide the ability to use the “Record Exists” guard condition options with list tag elements. When we fill a list tag in the field “Lookup Value”, only the first value of the list is com...
almost 9 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Only Modify/Create Snapshot during deployment from Jenkins pipeline using plugin

Deployment to the production environment requires manual approval in our organization. Due to the pipeline syntax for UCD deployment, it is not possible to simply generate or alter the snapshot but must instead deploy the artifact during the deplo...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 2 Not under consideration

Using RFT 3270 scripts with Jenkins

We are unable to start RFT playback triggered from a Jenkins server, when Jenkins is running as a Windows service on the Jenkins node. However this works fine when Jenkins node is connected running a JNLP file in a browser or via CLI.
almost 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 3 Future consideration

Support for the Fortran programming language in Urban Code Deploy is needed.

The current GA release of UCD does not support the Fortran programming language. This is a requirement for usage of UCD in our Enterprise environment.
almost 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Not under consideration