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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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New functionality to Restore a Backup to Dataset

The existing zOS Utilities step “Rollback Dataset Step” is capable to restore the previous version from a (automatically created) backup file. There is a rare case, that a single file from a deployment would need to be restored - in this scenario ...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Accessing Websphere admin console hosted inside an Openshit POD

IBM provided docker base image for WebSphere application server. We use it to containerize WebSphere traditional applications and move them into Cloud, such as Openshit, for better scalability. However, the WebSphere admin console is not accessible.
over 4 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

support for creating OpenAPI3.1 yaml

a recent update was made to the OpenAPI spec that enhances the JSON Schema support. This is OpenAPI3.1
about 1 year ago in Heritage / Software Architect Designer for WebSphere 1 Future consideration

Mapping of a role in a JWT token to a technical user ID in SAF/RACF

As of today only WebSphere Liberty on z/OS and z/OS Connect EE (which is also based on WebSphere Liberty on z/OS) can only map the distributed user ID in a JWT token to a mainframe user ID in SAF/RACF. This is a problem when there is no equivalent...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Integration support for Visual Studio 2022

Visual Studio 2022 was released on 16 December 2022, we need to support an integration.
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / ClearCase 0 Future consideration

Agent service is not able to auto-restart and require reinstall service after upgrade

After upgraded the UCD server and relay from 6.2.5.0 to 7.1.0.2, login UCD webUI to upgrade agents. However, the agent service failed to restart after upgrade, and actually the agent service require reinstall. It is not practical to manually reins...
over 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Future consideration

adjust file permissions for the secured-installed.properties file on the deploy server

The `/<UCD_INSTALL_HOME>/conf/server/secured-installed.properties` file permissions is to open, at 0644. Changing this to 0600 or 0640 ends up reverting back to 0644 once the server or the deploy server application is restart. Since this fil...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Under review

Add inherit from parent option to base of resource tree and json export

On a resource template, at the parent level, there currently is no inherit from parent checkbox provided. Thus, migrating from UCD v6 to v7 has broken all inherit from parent checkboxes of the children under the parent. The default is false, thus,...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Is a defect

UCDP BP should support encrypt and decrypt of secure input property values

UCDP blueprint designer does not have the ability to decrypt or encrypt secure properties defined in UCD. Because of this, deployments of components that use secure properties will fail. This ability should be fully supported by UCPD blueprint des...
over 9 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

We want WAS to be configured in a manner so that if client provide RSA certificate less than 2048 bit then the request should be rejected by IBM WebSphere Application Server

This is useful in making system less vulnerable. All client using IBM WebSphere would be benefitted from this. IBM WebSphere application Server should work in a manner so that if client provide RSA certificate less than 2048 bit then the request s...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration