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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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Logging activities related to any changes in Lifecycle addition/updation in community

per case TS005591326 support team was not able to identify the reason for some changes done by system process (Repository Process) because there is no logs captured by application when any changes happen to lifecycle in that community.
over 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Add support for non ASCII file name in cleartool

It appears to be that the cleartool prompt on Windows wants everything in the first 127 characters (ASCII). cleartool interactive prompt ignores the input locale, assuming ASCII, meaning filenames with accented or other international characters ma...
over 3 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

sort order of groups in the user properties in the CQ

Request the possibility to sort group list in Alphabetical order CQ User Administration should have sorting function for group list in User Property tab.
over 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

CMAPI instruction to write to CCRC server log

Implement new CMAPI instruction to write explicit info to CCRC server log.Instead of writing to STDOUT or to a file, that new instruction would allow to write to CCRC server trace log (when enabled in server.conf)
over 6 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Automatically Open the CTE in Currently Set View

We have a shared environment with many views and VOBs. It is required that when ClearTeam Explorer is launched, it will go directly into the currently set view. This would be equal to the xclearcase behavior.
almost 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Future consideration

Application Popup/Error mesages handling in RFT using chrome browser

Need to handle application related popup /error messages (HTML Dialog)in chrome browser using RFT. Unfortunately, the Javascript popUp (HTMLDialog) is not supported on Chrome nor other browsers. It works only on IE
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality 2 Future consideration

Adding Windows Auth ability to connect to SQL Servers for UCD server installation in Linux servers

This would be benefit for the customers who want to use win authentication for connecting to their SQL servers. We treat win auth is more secured than sql authentication.
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 0 Future consideration

Make the Windows based Region Syncronizer be able to parse NAS paths

The RS tool is not good at guessing -- or remembering - a windows facing storage path.Can this be improved or made such that it can remember the previous entry - like that in the view creation advanced GUI; once I set my local view storage it reme...
almost 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

zOS Agent - Support for special characters in PDS member names

Currently the zOS Deploy Agent does not support all PDS member names (see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/elm/6.0.3?topic=definitions-zos-data-set-naming-rules). We currently have Endevor backout members that do not meet these standard and so cannot b...
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Add VMWare ESXi 6.5 support for Clearcase

IBM System Requirements for Clearcase states that only VMWare ESXi 5.x supports Clearcase which is a very old version. Ideally the application should be supported on latest VMWare ESXi hypervisors. The latest version as of now is ESXi 6.5. Please ...
almost 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 0 Future consideration