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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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InstantOn checkpoint.sh supported features validations to make developers life easy when adding to server.xml

InstantOn feature on Openliberty and WebSphere liberty is currently supported from version 23 and above, currently the supported jakarta features, microprofile features are listed per version and there are features which are not supported by insta...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 4 Not under consideration

Add support for Java 21.

Java 21 is available for more than 1,5 year and developers need to use it.
over 1 year ago in Heritage / Model Architect 0 Under review

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 > ...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Functionality already exists

Implement the possibility of preventing the use of licenses by UCD, when the limit is reached.

Today it is not possible to have control over the use of UCD licenses, as the tool allows the continuation of activities, even when the license limit has been reached. By not providing this option, the use of licenses is always subject to exceedin...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 8 Not under consideration

Upgrade RFT eclipse to support Java 11

We need to move our framework to java 11 to take advantage of the improvements but having RFT still on Java 8 is a hindrance.
almost 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 4 Future consideration

UCD automatically handles JCL that exceeds the character limit per line after substituting

While I was trying to use OCOPY in our pipeline via "Submit JCL" step, I had to hard-coded the file name like below since the continuation for HFS Path has to be cut off at column 71, and starting next line at column 16 according to https://www.ib...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Do not install Microsoft Access database engine when installing ClearQuest

ClearQuest clients are deployed on end users' Windows PC. The Microsoft Access database engine is automatically installed when the CQ client is installed, but it clashes with the installed MS Office, making it impossible for MS Office to operate p...
over 2 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 4 Is a defect

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...
over 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...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Forms: Buttons linked to text field is not hiding when linked field is hidden

In dynamic forms , we have linked the Button to the Reference list and if linked Reference list field is hidden button also will be hidden. but it is not working for other fields like text , multiline and choice list. if we linked the Button to th...
about 5 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 1 Under review