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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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Display logs in ZOS agent started task in EBCIDC or display nothing

Any ASCII or other (unreadable) data that is not EBCIDC should be prevented from ending up in the SDSF(spool). This IBM Idea has been opened to track the work being done by product development to prevent the unreadable / garbage data, related to t...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Introduce timeout for process steps

- We recently saw a case where a deployment process was stuck at one particular step for 3+ hours due to some issues. - It's a good idea to introduce a new step property "timeout" that can kill the step that is stuck after the mentioned timeout pe...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2

Using another functionality instead of XMIT when doing a Backup during Deploy Data Set

in general, the XMIT function is not allowed on production Z/OS systems due to security reason A deployment of a new member in a data set with backup configured is using XMIT to generate the backup information. com.ibm.ucd.plugin.zos, version: 92,...
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Functionality already exists

Quantum Teleportation program

Real-time teleportation is a concept that currently belongs to the realm of science fiction, but it has captured the imagination of many in science, technology, and philosophy. While teleportation is commonly portrayed in media as the instantaneou...
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Embedded 1 Not under consideration

UCV executor plugin to return valid http status code

This plugin returns 200 every single time, even if the deployment can't be started or if there's something wrong with the json data that gets passed. The plugin is supposed to respond with an error if the incorrect data gets passed (e.g. pipeline ...
almost 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 3 Under review

Add a "Test" email button

When configuring the email server settings, it would be very helpful to have a "Test connection" type button to ensure the mail configuration works. In the event of an error, exposing the error through the UI (and not requiring directions to the p...
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Future consideration

I want an RPT setting to exclude statistics for a given Request or Page from the reports.

I want an RPT setting to exclude statistics for a given Request or Page from the reports. Use case is to provide a mechanism to exclude statistics for Pages/Request used for polling (heartbeat), setup, teardown, etc. Specific use case: The solutio...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test Performance 1 Future consideration

OpenTelemetry integration for the IHS WebSphere plugin

OTEL is the new standard for telemetry data like traces, logs, metrics and events to be shipped to any external systems for enhanced visibility. Datadog currently does not have an integration for IHS plugin, hence the idea here is if IBM can build...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Unified Reports should be filterable

To start, aware that there is a similar RFE (https://cloud-platform.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/RBF-I-31). The "solution" to that RFE (https://help.blueproddoc.com/rationaltest/rationaltestworkbench/10.5.1/docs/topics/rn_ui.html#whatsnew) lists a number o...
11 months ago in DevOps Automation / Test Hub 1 Future consideration

Want to name VP steps in a WebUI script and show them on Unified Report.

[Environment] RFT10.5.1(WebUI perspective) [Description] Want to name VP steps in a WebUI script and show them on Unified Report. For example, in case of Unified Report in English, a VP step starts from "Verify" word so it could be easy to find th...
almost 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 1 Future consideration