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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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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...
almost 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 0 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

We propose the implementation of an option to disable the display of warning messages for end users.

Currently, our UrbanCode Deploy environment serves approximately 2000 end users. A recurring challenge we face is how the system handles certain warning messages, such as "Partition detected in WebSocket agent communication." These types of warnin...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 5 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

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

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

Allow environment variables in the plugin-cfg.xml file

Our customer is evaluating WebSphere Liberty 18.0.0.3 using the latest version v9.0.0.0 IHS + PLUGIN tar instalation package to develop an architecture for running WebSphere Liberty in a containerized environment. When we run the "pluginUtility ge...
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 3 Not under consideration

Looking for API to get the agents details from particular component

Support ticket - TS019698647 I am currently working on automating a deployment pipeline. As part of this automation, I want to ensure that the jenkins deployment aborts if the target agent (mapped under the component used) is offline. To implement...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request: Improve Error Messaging for Virtual Host Port Mismatch

When the <virtualHost> block is configured to allow traffic only from: <hostAlias>*:9444</hostAlias> but the server is actually listening on port 9443, any attempt by a user to access the application results in the following misl...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration