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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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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

Do not install Microsoft Access database engine when installing ClearQuest

ClearQuest clients are deployed on end users' Windows PC. The Microsoft Access database engine is automatically installed when the CQ client is installed, but it clashes with the installed MS Office, making it impossible for MS Office to operate p...
almost 2 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 4 Is a defect

MSA and GMSA service account support for the ucdagent

Use case: Windows ucdgagent Active directory service accounts are restricted to systems in the allowed "Logon To" list. This is very restrictive in the amount f systems you can have this account to access. Basically approximately 64 systems. I the...
about 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 8 Needs more information

checkvob should detect corrupted containers

Add a checkvob option to scan the VOB for corrupted source container. That option will prevent critical situation such as multisite replication stuck because of corrupted container. Currently the only way is to open all files until an error is pro...
about 4 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

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...
about 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...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2

"AIX" platform to be included as a valid search platform

The FIX CENTRAL when looking for Java Runtimes software, the platform pull down does not work if you only specify AIX. It must be AIX, 32/64-bit pSeries instead of just AIX. Can the "AIX" platform also be included as a valid search platform? Norma...
about 1 year ago in Java Runtimes (Semeru, OpenJDK) 4 Not under consideration

pluginConfiguration - functionality to change the LogLevel during plugin generation

We are running Liberty z/OS and we would like to set the Loglevel in logs/state/plugin-cfg.xml file https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-liberty/zos?topic=SS7K4U_liberty/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.autogen.nd.doc/ae/rwlp_config_pluginConfiguration.html p...
about 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 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 ...
about 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 3 Under review

Make compression feature extensible

Currently, Liberty only supports gzip and deflate, as already stated in https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/LIBERTY-I-144 However, it is impossible for users to add new compressions globally, as the classes are not extensible at all. I think the relevant ...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration