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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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Clustered EJB Timer service

The integrated EJB Timer service has to be configured for each application server. While providing support to client I discovered that the EJB Timer Service is configured for APPServer1 and APPServer2 separately by going inside path "Servers > ...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Functionality already exists

Reporting and cleanup of agents

We name nearly all agents for the hostname. We have hosts get retired but the agent still shows in the console as offline. We currently have inexact and processes to check ServiceNow to see if it's retired, ,and then come back to see for those tha...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

OIDC integration with the the IBM IHS HTTP Server

I know that the apache web server has and oidc module and the IBM's HTTP Server is built on it. But IBM doesn't support the use of the oidc module. It would be great if IBM could support the use of the oidc module in it's HTTP Server. This would a...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

JDK 17 support for tWAS

JDK 17 is not supported for tWAS with Filent. We were advised to use JDK 18 Liberty
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

"Download All" button to download version placed in an external repository

UCD displays a "Download All" button to downlad the zip version file and be able to inspect it, but it only works if the version is stored in Codestation. When the version is stores in an external repository, it only downloads an xml metadata file...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Inquiry on Active Deployments on Agent at Specific Timestamp Checking Parallel Deployments/ Agent to be used

This is our requirement: Can we run/get a report for UCD usage with details for the past 12 months: - **Per day**: Peak number of simultaneous sessions run by all agents in parallel. - **Per day**: Peak number of agents running simultaneous sessio...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

when configuring gatekeeping rules, we can only enter users and not teams/groups

with the current configuration we would need to add an enormous amount of users instead of just the teams and we would need to be constantly updating the rule as staff moves on
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 10 Planned for future release

UCD Agent unavailable

The UCD Agents running on the UNIX boxes are going down. This forces a manual restart before UCD processes can be run. The root cause of the agents going down is not known.
about 6 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Functionality already exists

Allow agent logs to be accessible from UCD server UI according to name pattern defined in agents log4j

Currently the "request agent logs" feature from UCD server UI only supports the agent log files in format agent.out.<INDEX>. We are working with teams which updated the agent log4j to alter the log file name to a daily naming syntax, e.g. ag...
almost 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Deployment warnings should be exposed as a consumable property

We are currently making use of the warnings feature in UCD where we are marking the deployment with an ucdWarning in certain cases. When looking at a deployment through UCD, it's clear that there is a warning and that the person needs to take a cl...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 0 Future consideration