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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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Azure plugin for UrbanCode Deploy

We need a plugin that would provide tasks to deploy and control applications running on Azure Cloud and Azure App Service (deploying, starting, stopping and controlling WebApps, managing applications and Azure resources, executing Azure CLI comman...
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

User management improvement

After creating a new user in ldap, we import the user in RAM and assign the appropriate license via the following menus. Administration > Tools > Update Users and GroupsAdministration > License Management > Enterprise edition publisher...
over 5 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Enable Options to store old config backups out of WAS installation Directory during restoreConfig.bat

IBM team in Case TS006197127, has requested below To remove old backup configurations as we noticed the issues with that in the past. However we still see you keep old config backups under the profile please remove them from that folder and store ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud - manual VPC selection when creating new WAS environment

We're currently using/evaluating the WAS traditional build template on VSI v2.1.0 and have noticed you have to use a unique vpc_name in its build configuration. In an IBM multi cloud heterogeneous environment, it would great if you had the option ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Future consideration

Support OAuth token hashing and encryption

The OAuth/OpenID Connect provider relies on database/volumn encryption to protect access token and associated user data, which is insufficient to prevent data breach. The OAuth bearer access_token represents user credential, and should be protecte...
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Rational Clear Quest support on UBUNTU and CentOS

Customer is expecting the CQ support on UBUNTU and CentOS platfoorm The trend is not to use Redhat as an OS.
over 5 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

Resources Agents page to have the option to filter the agent list by relay column value 'None'

Currently 7.1.x and 7.2.x version do not have the option on the agents list in UI to retrieve the agents connected directly to server. So it is not possible to select altogether all the agents without a relay and manage these agents at once (defin...
almost 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Expose com.ibm.ws.uow.embeddable.UOWManager for Application access

An application may need to access transaction manager in order to suspend and resume the current thread's transaction programmatically. This feature could be achieved through UowManager in Websphere Traditional. But, Liberty provides a UoWManager ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

imcl not usable if usrprf has password *none

We started using ansible for managing our ibm i platform. We host a large websphere environment on it. I started to do the updates of Express and liberty via ansible. The first approaches did not work because of imcl complaining about the ansible ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

New Hook: Cancel/Revert-Hook

In ClearQuest a lot of different hook types (access control, initialization, choicelist, etc) are defined. For the normal (positive) workflow everything goes fine. Every step will be visible by special hooks. Saving will end with validation-, comm...
almost 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration