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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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Allow custom grouping for custom metrics. currently grouped by result only

When metrics are published , we would like to be able to display published metrics as individual bars per Application. However the data is grouped by result only with no option to group by application. Desired behavior would be similar to Build Co...
almost 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Velocity 3 Not under consideration

No world writeable Clearcase Logfiles

Clearcase writes world writeabel logfiles in Directory /var/adm/rational/clearcase/log. This is a security violation and is not allowed within Commerzbank.
about 5 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Future consideration

Missing source IP in SMF record type 80 when accessing with WAS or IHS

WAS and IHS need to add the source IP address to SMF type 80 records to enable identification of security breaches and also to enable the use of conditional access based on source IP address.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere traditional 4 Not under consideration

Oracle SQL*Plus plugin: Execute all scripts in the same transaction

Whenever executing the Oracle SQL plugin with a lot of scripts, we notice that it's creating a new session for every single script execution. This is limiting in terms of performance, but it only inhibits certain use cases.
almost 4 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

SAML authentication not available

Hello, Currently our urbancode tools are using the siteminder authentication which will be changed to SAML authentication within couple of months, we had searched on the IBM documentation and on the internet for the process to integrate urbancode ...
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Build 2 Future consideration

the "Docker Registry" plugin needs an update to support docker OCI format

the plugin can no longer pull images from docker hub because it does not support the newest format
over 1 year ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2

SSL/TLS monitoring

SSL/TLS certificate expiration is a common IT problem. The expiration could be on certificates used directly by WAS or by services WAS is dependent on.
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under 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.
over 7 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Create option to open browser in incognito mode using startBrowser

Create option to open browser in incognito mode using startBrowser
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration

Mixed mode support in RTW

Sometimes applications use Windows common dialogs and mixed domains. Rational Functional Tester natively supported this, and this feature should be put into Rational Test Workbench so that these dialogs can be accessed, and not blindly via keystro...
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Workbench 2 Future consideration