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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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REST API support for "Forget Agent Certificate" in UCD

There is an existing API in the UCD UI that offers the ‘Forget Agent Certificate’ option for agents. We want this API to be part of the list of supported APIs so that we can utilize it and raise a product case if any issues arise. This feature is ...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Delivered

Run Application Process - Add Description as parameter

Using the generic Run Application Process to trigger a deployment on another application currently has no way to populate the description on the process that is triggered. Even passing through as Request Property will not populate the field. Add a...
8 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Delivered

Support to obtain the role information from the access token / OIDC configuration

Human2web authorization is built by ODM based on Id_token and access_token is not considered. Only when we configure with a variable/key from Id_token, authorization works. Custom customer system do not have any groups/roles/claims as part of id_t...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Delivered

Limit the number of retries after a 503 on PlugIn

Plugin re-tries on 503 error code is equal to the number of jvms in a cluster. We have huge cluster with more than 50 jvms. We want to limit the number of re-tries which plugin attempts on 503. Need a setting to define the limit on the number of r...
about 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Delivered

possibility to use a cipher other than SHA1 by encrypting the backup

There are some limitations with regard to private key used with the backup and restore process. The private key file uploaded must be a PEM encoded private key. The maximum key size allowed is 8192 bits.Currently private key is expected to be a SH...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 1 Delivered

Scheduled System Blackouts

Enable a system wide capability to schedule a blackout period, either one-time (ad-hoc) or scheduled. This could only be performed by the designated system administrtors. As was mentioned RFE 129169, it is extremely tedious to currently do this at...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Delivered

Allow the use of host sytem environment variables in server.env: Shell and variable expansion should be supported

System: WebSphere Liberty Profile Actor: Automated deployment relying on config information provided by runtime platform (i.e. linux server or container) As WebSphere Liberty is heavily used in cloud contexts, configuration options that need to be...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Delivered

Search Z Artifact should support case-sensitive search

We are trying to set up a CI/CD pipeline for supporting “old traditional” mainframe development and then use UCD as a deployment manager. Our z/OS developers are used to be able to easy see the inventory in our different environments (several dev ...
about 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Delivered

Search Z Artifact should support wild card search

We are trying to set up a CI/CD pipeline for supporting “old traditional” mainframe development and then use UCD as a deployment manager. Our z/OS developers are used to be able to easy see the inventory in our different environments (several deve...
about 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Delivered

Search Z Artifact should have better Mainframe support

We are trying to set up a CI/CD pipeline for supporting “old traditional” mainframe development and then use UCD as a deployment manager. Our z/OS developers are used to be able to easy see the inventory in our different environments (several deve...
about 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Delivered