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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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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

Support for Microsoft Edge

Support for Microsoft Edge
over 4 years ago in Rational Other / Change 5 Not under consideration

Support air-gapped networks

Support installation and operation of a cluster with IBM Cloud Pak for Applications in a disconnected, air-gapped network that does not have direct access to Internet. Offering needs to support installation of the offering and typical operations t...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Applications 3 Not under consideration

icp4app's Tekton webhook should support normal git beyond github

icp4app should cover it environments which is restricted to public access. Lots of clients use restricted network environments and they owns their git repository. In korean market atlassian product including bitbucket is majority. It should normal...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Applications 1 Not under consideration

Synergy Should Provide Recursive Project Compare Option

One of my users requested this enhancement and was surprised we hadn't already put this in. If you have a project that contains sub-projects then when you want to compare the overall project you have to go through a bunch of manual sub project com...
over 9 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 5 Not under consideration

Include 'OR' functionality in Application Template Component Tag Requirements

As an administrator of UrbanCode Deploy, I would like to have an OR option for adding component template tags to Application Templates so that multiple teams with different tags can use the same application template.
over 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

Oracle TDE support for Rational Build forge

We would like to implement Transparent data encryption (TDE) for our Oracle 12.2 database and would request that IBM can support this for Rational Build forge.
over 4 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 1 Not under consideration

Synergy Performance Degradation with Long Duration Operations

When doing an operation that holds onto back end sessions for extending lengths of time, the Synergy application gradually slows down. We've seen operations that initially take less than a second per file end up taking >5 minutes per file by th...
over 9 years ago in Rational Other / Synergy 5 Not under consideration

Ability to set 'Run-until' as default for selected env.profiles.

Ability to set 'Run-until' as default for selected env.profiles.For self-service and pattern development use cases, we need a way to enforce pattern instance deployments to set an expiration date.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration