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Add ability to add custom group names to filtering capability

We are very interested in using WebSphere Automation, however, the problem is we have over 500 WAS servers across 63 distinct WebSphere cells. We must have the ability to filter/group servers by a custom group name to be able to segregate servers ...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

REST API to manage the permission entitlements

Hi Team, We are looking for a REST API which can help us to manage the permissions entitlements in UrbanCode with respect to roles.Where we provide input as YAML file for example as listed below and that helps us to replicate the permissions for t...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Delivered

Certificate Filter should allow access to the Subject Alternative Name fields

Hi We deployed certificate based authentication to work with IBM Rational CLM products to support Federal mandate (2F Authentication using smart card know as PIV). From past few years this solution worked with no issues. However, VA is migrating i...
almost 7 years ago in WebSphere traditional Delivered

Not last 2 but last 3 LTS versions should be udpated.

Our idea is that for the update strategy for the Liberty Container Images not only the last 2 LTS versions should be updated, but the last 3 versions. In our company we only bring every half a year new Liberty Version to production and in between ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

Allow multiple CVE fixes

As part of the installing the fix process on WebSphere Automation, the server is restarted after the fixpack is applied. When you have multiple CVEs to apply, the servers are restarting a lot and sometimes that takes more time waiting for the rest...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation Delivered

Enhance Application Process Required Role

Currently application processes can be configured so that a required role is needed to run the process. Unfortunately this is limited to a single role. We currently have a range of platform roles for seniority in platform teams that work across mu...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 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...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty Delivered

The window while adding version while requesting deployment has scroll

When we do "Add Version" while requesting deployment, if the component name is too big, it adds a horizontal scroll to the window. This can be very annoying to the User, if they have to add multiple component versions. The window width should eith...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Delivered

Add a "configure account later" option for ClearCase installs.

In environments where key credentials are never written down in normal-user-accessible files, even as "encrypted" strings, storing the albd account credentials in a response file is not considered secure enough. Prior to the latest releases, the i...
about 2 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase Delivered

successfully authenticated through OIDC, but the user doesn't have permission further to view the dashboard of udeploy

upon successfully login to udeploy using OIDC, user can not see the dashboard of udeploy, unless and until, the alpha numerical user ( this will be created by udeploy automatically) has been added to admin role of any team.
10 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy Delivered