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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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Use firewalld in RHEL7 Core OS

In RHEL 7 firewalld is the preferred firewall solution. In the current CoreOS images for RHEL7 iptables is still in use. Please change the CoreOS (and all scripting that depends on this) to use firewalld instead off iptables. This statement could ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Chargeback and organizational profiles

When an organizational profile is associated with an environment profile, there should be an option for all past deployments that used that environment profile be connected with the organizational profile.
about 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

pure internal IIM repository handling logging

If you try to upload an IIM package to the internal IIM repository sometimes the upload fails, but there's no output of the reason why it fails. so it would be usefull to show some more output of the failure. If you now wan't to see the real error...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Support .NET Core 6.0 Desktop Applications and WPF in Rational Functional Tester

Currently RFT supports .NET applications until the .NET 4.6.1 version of Desktop Applications. Such .NET version is obsoleted from Microsoft in mid 2022 and Microsoft encourages to migrate applications on .NET Core 6.x applications. So new Desktop...
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration

Upgrade Agent have limitation of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer Agent - which is problematic if customer have 50.000 UCD Agents to upgrade

Upgrade Agent feature have limitation described on documentation as: "Updating many agents simultaneously can have a significant affect the server. As a rule-of-thumb, limit the number of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer." Which is problematic...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

OpenJCEPlus security provider for IBM Semeru runtimes

Since IBM Java 8.0.7.15 brainpool eliptic curves are supported by IBMJCEPlus security provider. We need an "OpenJCEPlus" security provider in Semeru 17 to bring the same IBMJCEPlus crypto provider implementation to Java 17 which would then include...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Liberty should support AT-TLS "awareness"

Liberty profile JVMS should support AT-TLS "awareness" at the same level that other products like CICS do.
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Future consideration

Implement DHE ciphers in IBM HTTP Server to provide Forward Secrecy to clients that do not support ECDHE ciphers

We use IBM HTTP Server 8.5.5 as HTTPS gateway in front of WebSphere Application Server portal system to service a multitude of different, external clients via internet. Those clients are outside our scope of influence, so we cannot dictate securit...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to suppress selected messages completely, simiar to "hideMessage" but causing messages to be completely suppresed.

It has been found that the writing of a very high volume of messages to the WebSphere Liberty messages.log has the ability to severely impact the performance of a server. In this case, the z/OS Connect product running within a Liberty server was w...
about 2 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Under review

ClearQuest install should check for existence of dependent libraries and error or warn if they're not present

Our ClearQuest prerequisites mention this requirement, but the ClearQuest install is allowed to complete (without any error or warning), even when these dependent libraries are not present. This yields errors when running the product after the "su...
almost 4 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration