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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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FAQ Configuring IBM Rational Change to use the hostname instead of the IP address

In the browser window from the change, to the future in the URL is no longer the IP address will be displayed, but only the DNS alias.
over 8 years ago in Rational Other / Change 4 Not under consideration

Liberty: Limit the number of pending requests

Our deployment has a web-services layer in Liberty connected to COBOL programs using JCICS. If the arrival rate of the requests is higher than the service rate of the servers the requests are queued in Liberty. If the clients time-out, the request...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Update SQLCMD and SQL JDBC plugin to enhance error handling

By the end of the DB deployment, our process demands a list of all such files that failed during execution. As with the current palettes ? RunSQLCmd and SQL JDBC, it is not possible to get the output of each file on some location, we are trying to...
over 8 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Allow successful Cloud pak for application installation or show proper error message when OpenShift pipeline operator is installed

CP4App v 4.1 fails to install if an existing OCP cluster has already OpenShift Pipelines Operator 1.0.1 (provided by Red Hat) installed. Moreover the logs can clearly mention the failure reason as a possible operator version conflict and resolutio...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Applications 0 Not under consideration

RSA-RTE: Context assist also in Code View

When editing in the editor window hovering above code will give context assist like... see image. It would help if this was also available in Code View.
over 8 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 3 Not under consideration

Set additional build job step status at uBuild

Hi Team, We would like to set the additional status other than success/Failure/Abort on each build job step. Where we would like to set optional desired status. We will create required status using settings satuses and re-validate the output logs ...
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Build 3 Not under consideration

Multiselect action for the dropdown/list box is not yet supported by RTW WebUI

Multiselect action for the dropdown/list box is not yet supported by RTW WebUI
almost 9 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 5 Not under consideration

Field required for specifying Jira's projects during the Jira Integration

Additional field required for specifying Jira's projects, which needs to be included in search to limit the number of project's scan during the Jira Integration
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Release 2 Not under consideration

Deploying/Managing as VM(Websphere) functionality in CP4Apps and most of the cloud paks

Most of the enterprises are moving/adopting in to Cloud Native, but in that process they may not be ready with all the applications to go with Cloud native or container ready at first run. For those applications they prefer to go with traditional ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Applications 0 Not under consideration

We need to use/see BF Snapshot with more than 999 projects.

"Snapshots are only visible for the first 999 projects in the Build Forge management console. It would be very useful if this limit could be extended or removed since our customers have over 1400 projects and would like to access all of their snap...
about 9 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 2 Not under consideration