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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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Restrict Urban Code Deploy Relay Web Proxy

Currently the UCD Relays proxy HTTP/S requests to any server on their network. This request is to allow restricting of the relays so that they only proxy traffic to the UCD Servers.
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Future consideration

Report/ Data on Application Process Request level details of each deployment

Report/ Data on Application Process Request level details of each deployment which includes Duration of each step eg: Acquire lock API or CLI to get the report on application process request step along with lock details
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Needs more information

Provide a stop/resume command for persistent timer execution in WLP

In Liberty Persistent Timer execution can be started/stopped by changing the server.xml enableTaskExecution attribute to true/false. This requires a reload of the configuration (which by default is automatic, but can be configured to mbean or disa...
about 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Allow the output repositories to be a zip file in the IBM Packaging Utility

You can not build zip repositories in the packaging utility command line (pucl) in the -target option.IBM support informed that building of taget repositories are not supported.Usually you need zip repositories so after the pucl command line you n...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Allow usage of z/OSMF JWT tokens by multiple sessions using the same user ID

We are using new APIs to obtain JWT tokens (/zosmf/services/authenticate) from our automated scripts that use other z/OSMF REST APIs with the obtained. After the script completes, it calls the DELETE method to invalidate the token that it obtained...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

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

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

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

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

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