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Pinned ideas

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

All ideas

Add text formatting capability (eg. font sizing, bolding, highlighting) to the editor.

Add to code readability and code comments for documentation purposes and emphasize important lines or blocks of code.
about 5 years ago in Heritage / Application Developer 0 Future consideration

Notification Scheme cannot be customized per Application or Environment when using Templates

We utilize Application Templates to enforce rules/environments etc... A notification scheme is selected in the template configuration but once an application is created from the template, the selected scheme is locked down and a different scheme c...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Ration Change : Option to disable the Reset Password dialog

In Change 5.3 configuration options : to have an option to disable the Reset Password dialog box. In our case, Change use RDS to store the users preferences but the authentication is made in passthrough mode with the enterprise directory.
over 9 years ago in Heritage 4 Not under consideration

Github Copilot Integration with Rational Application Developer

Our organization has been leveraging Github Copilot (a subset of Microsoft 365 Copilot) integration with other IDE's to great affect. We would leverage a similar tool that helps write in-line code and comments, testing, and minimizes reading docum...
about 1 year ago in Heritage / Application Developer 0 Under review

Action Based Security

This idea is to be able to manage "actions" in the role configuration. An example would be under "Resource", "Create Resource" we would have the actions "Create" & "Copy" and under "Edit" we would have "Update a resource's parent". Ideally we'...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Future consideration

Need capability for restarting the failed process from the plugin step which actually failed

Currently when we repeat the failed process, it starts another run altogether and hence starts from begining again. Instead we want a capability of restarting from the failed step similar to what a mainframe JCL offers. This functionality is very ...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Deployment of HA DMGR in AWS using Application Load Balancers instead of On-demand routers

It is useful for the customer that is deploying traditional BAW 24 in AWS using EC2 instances. In QA and Prod they have an active passive stray nodes deployment across two availability zones within the same region. They have the request of having ...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Deployment Manager DR strategy on AWS through AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

It is useful since the customer is deploying traditional BAW 24 in AWS using EC2 instances. In QA and Prod there is an active passive stray nodes deployment across two availability zones within the same region. Therefore to follow recommended DR f...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Not under consideration

Add option to filter out "Not Started" and "Precondition Failed" steps from log

We have deployment processes that support alot of different types of deployment types while the incremental packages being installed dont always containing all of those types. This leads to alot of "Not Started" and "Precondition Failed" steps cro...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Under review

Implementing Time-Based execution lock for Application processes

Hello Team, To control and restrict when an application process can be executed, we need to implement a time-based execution lock. This mechanism will allow the process to run only within a specified time window, ensuring it is executed only durin...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 Not under consideration