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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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Better access to request log

History page in both (Application and Environment) was always a bit misleading, but after UCV 7.1.* it is even worse as the access to the view of the request execution is hidden in a submenu under those 3 dots icon in the last column in the right....
almost 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Colours on environments page

After upgrading to version 7.1.* all rows on Environments page have only small vertical stripe of colour on the left. That does not allow users to easily spot their environments and it is counterproductive. Please expand it to cover at least colum...
almost 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Implement CICS virtualization to Rational Test Automation Server

Mainframe customers need this capability. Without this capability, mainframe customers will not look at RTAS
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 2 Future consideration

Udclient CLI should support passing tokens in secured format

Currently udclient CLI does not support passing token in encrypted format so that it will not be exposed. We are currently storing a token in readbale format in a file and then passing that value as a token to udclient command. However instead of ...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 4 Needs more information

Disable (unused) auto-scaling in ITM shared-service by default

Deliver the ITM system monitoring shared-service default with auto-scaling disabled. Current default ptypes of ITM have the auto-scaling feature enabled. This can lead to the auto cloning of the RTEMS VM by the system. The extra RTEMS VM however i...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Data structure constant dimension used with SQL statements

Allow constants to be used for dimension size on data structures that are used in SQL queries. It currently works fine if it's not used with SQL statements.
about 5 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 1 Future consideration

To support AES-256 password encryption in traditional WebSphere

As per this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was/9.0.5?topic=files-encrypting-passwords-by-using-aes , WAS only supports AES-128 encryption. My customer's security standard requires AES-256 at the minimum.
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Option to set time zone

Add option to set time zone. Currently metrics and logs are showing incorrect time.
almost 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 2 Future consideration

View current log level

On z/OS, user can use Modify command to change log level of a Liberty server when server is running. There's no way to view the latest log/trace specification.
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

merged server.xml

Liberty supports loading configuration from the configDropins/default, configDropins/overrides and the server.xml file. This can result in multiple configuration files, and it can be hard to determine what the server is actually running with.
almost 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration